During the last couple of years, the number of climate neutral claims for individual products or by entire organizations has risen drastically. Numerous of such claims faced legal complications and government regulations, as seen for instance in France. Companies have gone even further by claiming to become climate positive or carbon negative in the near…
In light of increased environmental destruction, resource scarcity and increased waste production the concept of circular economy (CE) has gained increasing attention. It is the main goal of CE to re-form the dominant linear value chains into a circular economic system. By applying sustainable product design, closing resource loops, implementing service solutions or circularity along…
Huge amounts of plastic waste in oceans and on land, landfills that cause pollution, animals struggling with our waste: These are only a few challenges humanity is facing at the moment linked to the conventional economic activity ‘produce, use, throw’. One factor is that most business models at the moment are focused on linear growing…
The Carbon Footprint is a descriptive, widely-used term for the greenhouse gas emission balance of an entire organization, or alternatively, of a single product or service. It includes emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (measured in CO2 equivalents / CO2-eq). In the case of an organization like a company or public institution,…
In the beginning of November, leading sustainability initiatives announced that a two-year project has been launched focusing on driving a better reporting alignment in the corporate (sustainability) reporting landscape. This topic has still connections to our published blog post from the 26th Sep. 2018 (GRI and SASB are planning to align their standards) and is…
To close 2016, we want to share with you a review of what happened this year from a CSR standpoint. Following the Paris Agreement This year, the Paris Agreement entered into force. This agreement of the 21st Conference of Parties of the UNFCC, signed by 195 countries, aims at reducing GHG emissions. The Paris Agreement…
The standard in development ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement – Guidance has just reached a second Draft International Standard stage. Interested parties can once again provide feedback before the publication of the norm in 2017. Sustainable procurement, extension of CSR in the supply chain Sustainable procurement is defined in the standard ISO 26 000 a followed:…
Diese Woche hat das Europäische Parlament wie erwartet dem Vorschlag der EU Kommission zugestimmt, dass Firmen mit mehr als 500 Mitarbeitern zukünftig Ergebnisse, Risiken und Grundsätze zu den Themen Umwelt, Soziales und Arbeitnehmer offenlegen müssen. Es muss zwar kein vollständiger Nachhaltigkeitsbericht erstellt werden, jedoch betreffen die Informationen das ganze CSR-Spektrum und fordern eine methodische Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation.…
Zur einheitlichen Berechnung der Treibhausgasemissionen – also des Carbon Footprint – von Transportdienstleistungen, hat das Deutsche Institut für Normung (DIN) einen Normentwurf zur DIN EN 16258: “Methode zur Berechnung und Deklaration des Energieverbrauchs und der Treibhausgasemissionen bei Transportdienstleistungen (Güter- und Personenverkehr)” vorgelegt. Noch bis zum 4. Juni können Stellungnahmen dazu als registrierte Einsprecher beim DIN…
