On the 17th of February, DFGE co-animated a webinar on Sustainable Development Goals with the World Environment Center. For those who missed it, we summarize the main conclusions of the webinar in this article. The webinar featured sustainability experts. Elisa Tonda (Head of Business and Industry Unit, UNEP), Lorraine Francourt (Director, EH&S & Sustainability,…
Background story: The majority of our blog posts deals with CSR topics; we write about the latest developments in this field and try to relate it to a company’s daily business. Our background stories have a different perspective: Here, we explain trends, scientific background and societal implications of corporate sustainability – sometimes with a personal…
DFGE wird der erste Consulting Partner in der DACH-Region von EcoVadis, dem Experten für Nachhaltigkeit in der Lieferkette. Diese Zusammenarbeit wird es Unternehmen künftig ermöglichen, besser auf die Anfragen ihrer Kunden bei einem EcoVadis-Assessment einzugehen und ihre CSR-Performance zu verbessern. EcoVadis, eine kollaborative Plattform für Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung EcoVadis betreibt die erste kollaborative Plattform, die Supplier Sustainability…
DFGE recently co-animated a webinar organized by the World Environment Center on how Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be implemented at corporate level. Here is the short summary of what was discussed there. SDGs are the world’s new sustainability agenda The Sustainable Development Goals were defined by the United Nations to set the 2030 agenda…
DFGE becomes the first Consulting Partner in the German-speaking region of EcoVadis, the leader in supply chain sustainability ratings. This partnership will help companies to better answer their clients’ requests for an EcoVadis assessment, as well as to improve CSR performance. EcoVadis, a collaborative sustainability rating platform EcoVadis operates the first collaborative platform providing Supplier…
Die Debatte um die sogenannten „Science-based Targets“ hat weiter Fahrt aufgenommen, seitdem sich zum COP21-Gipfel 2015 in Paris zahlreiche große Firmen auf konkrete, wissenschaftlich ermittelte Reduktionsziele festgelegt haben (siehe http://sciencebasedtargets.org/companies-taking-action/) Die deutsche Initiative „Klimareporting.de“ , getragen von CDP und WWF, hat nun ein praxisorientiertes Themenpapier für Unternehmen veröffentlicht. Zum Dokument. Darin wird der Ansatz der Science-based Targets allgemein…
DFGE – Institute for Energy, Ecology and Economy is happy to share its second CSR/sustainability report, which takes the shape of a Communication On Progress (COP). What is a Communication On Progress (COP)? In 2015, DFGE produced its first Communication On Progress, a document showing the targets, the actions implemented to reach the targets and…
Why is the World Economic Forum important? The 2016 World Economic Forum annual meeting took place in Davos, Switzerland, from the 20th to the 23rd of January and gathered decision-makers from all over the world. It enables to raise awareness among the most influential people of the world: indeed, it provides an opportunity to gain…
THE UNFCCC 21th Conference of Parties (COP21) was held in Paris from the 30th of November to the 12th of December, 2015. The 195 countries represented here reached an historical agreement to curb climate change. The Paris agreement at a glance: Objective to keep temperature rise below 2°C and try to limit it to 1.5°C Five-year…
Lost in all the requests for information linked to sustainability management and reporting? DFGE has chosen the top 10 documents you can easily share with your stakeholders. Nowadays, transparency is expected from companies and CSR/sustainability reporting has been increasing by 5 points from 2011 to 2014[1]. There are many channels where information can be reported:…
