CDP-Report: Zulieferer werden stärker in Emissionsermittlung eingebunden

Laut dem ‚Supply Chain Report‘ des Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) rücken die Scope 3 Emissionen stärker in den Fokus der Unternehmen. Unter Scope 3 Emissionen versteht man die ’sonstigen indirekten Emissionen‘ z.B. aus Transport, Abfall oder Herstellung und Entsorgung. Dabei waren die Hauptgründe der Unternehmen die Emissionen der Zulieferer zu betrachten: Verstärktes Interesse der Kunden…

New Report: Carbon Footprint Estimation Boundaries shows dramatic lack of Methodology

„Do the Tier 1 and 2 estimates provide reasonable guidance?“ „Nearly two-thirds of all economic sectors providign goods and services (…) would have less than 25% of their total carbon footprint represented by Tiers 1 and 2.“ These are just two statements from a recently published report. „The Importance of Carbon Footprint Estimation Boundaries“ was…

Carbon Labelling in the UK

A new report from the Forum of the Future explores carbon labelling of products and the effects on shopping behaviour. I read about it at the ClimateBiz Newsletter. Especiall the UK companies are very active setting standards and defining labels. Therfore also the UK customers are quite familiar with those new labels but on the…

Green IT Trends

The prominence of Green IT is growing every day. According to a new report from Forrester Research one of the five Green IT trends will be the end-of-live managment. This means that initiatives in the IT will also stretch to other parts of the company. More and more divisions of the companies have ongoing or…