Autoproducenten?utm_content=buffer41fd1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. Dertien grote, wereldwijde autoproducenten gaan hun leveranciers structureel aansporen om duurzamer te werk te gaan. Het gaat hierbij om het handhaven van de mensenrechten, milieu, arbeidsomstandigheden en bedrijfsethiek.
De autoproducenten hebben daarvoor met hulp van non-profitorganisaties AIAG en CSR Europe deze week een declaratie opgesteld: The Automotive Industry Guiding Principles to Enhance Sustainability Performance in the Supply Chain. De declaratie is ondertekend door BMW, Chrysler, Daimler, Fiat, Ford, GM, Honda, Jaguar/Land Rover, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Scania, Toyota, Volkswagen en Volvo. In Guiding Principles geven de bedirjven dat “mens en milieu voor de auto-industrie belangrijk zijn.
De richtlijnen werden voor het eerst ontwikkeld in 2009 door Ford, GM, Chrysler, Honda en Toyota. De meeste autoconcerns hebben al eigen duurzame richtlijnen opgesteld. De verklaring van de AIAG. Brinkman roept bouwsector op te vergroenen. Bouwend Nederland, de brancheorganisatie voor de bouw, wil de bouwsector op de (middel) lange termijn vergroenen. Elco Brinkman, voorzitter van Bouwend Nederland zegt: “Ketensamenwerking en duurzaamheid gaan hand in hand.
Wil de sector echt duurzamer zijn, dan moeten marktpartijen met elkaar om tafel om van elkaar te leren. Ik nodig de markt daarom uit om met innovatieve ideeën te komen”. Rockcycle Al eerder zei Brinkman, tijdens de afgelopen Renovatiebeurs, dat de bouwsector meer ondernemend moet zijn en ook naar de lange termijn moet kijken in plaats van alleen naar prijs. Brinkman deed deze oproep tijdens de lancering van Rockcycle. Toegevoegde waarde in de keten Erwin Prins, managing Director bij Rockwool: “Met Rockcycle bieden we meer toegevoegde waarde aan onze afnemers. Integrale aanpak overheid Prins deed ook een oproep aan de overheid. Bron: EnergievastgoedFoto: VNU/Robert Aarts. Microsoft Commits to Carbon Neutrality in FY 2013. Microsoft will charge an internal carbon offset fee starting in fiscal year 2012-2013 in its effort to be carbon neutral beginning July 1, according to the company’s blog.
The carbon price will be based on market pricing for renewable energy and carbon offsets, and Microsoft will apply it to operations in more than 100 countries. The pricing is part of the software company’s strategy to achieve net-zero emissions in its data centers, software development labs, offices and employee air travel, outlined in a white paper published this month. According to the white paper, Microsoft’s approach has three “pillars”: be lean, be green and be accountable. “Be lean” means using technology to increase energy efficiency and decrease air travel. In October 2011, Microsoft completed a smarter buildings pilot program on its Redmond, Wash. campus, using software to make its buildings more energy efficient. The carbon fee is a key component of Microsoft’s “be accountable” pillar. Leading Global Investors Call the False Dichotomy Between Economy and Environment "Nonsense" By Stephen Lacey on January 18, 2012 at 2:06 pm "Leading Global Investors Call the False Dichotomy Between Economy and Environment “Nonsense”" A top GE executive is calling the political battle between economy and environment “nonsense.”
In a video interview (featured below) at an international clean energy investment conference last week, Mark Vachon, vice president of GE’s successful Ecomagination program, hailed “environmental performance” as a key driver for business. “There’s this theory that you have to pick one: economics or environmental performance. GE started the Ecomagination program in 2005 and has since invested more than $5 billion renewable energy, efficiency and smart grid technologies. “Companies that don’t get this, really risk becoming irrelevant to the marketplace. One of the most important themes moving into America’s national elections is the perceived conflict between the economy and the environment. And this is only the beginning of a very long transition. Facebook builds 'green' datacentre in Sweden | Environment.
Facebook is building a 'green' datacentre in Sweden, the social networking giant's first datacentre outside the US. The company said on Thursday that it had picked the northern Swedish city of Lulea, just 100km south of the Arctic Circle, because of its access to renewable energy and the cold climate that is crucial for keeping the servers cool.
The centre will be the largest of its kind in Europe, and the northernmost of this magnitude on earth. It will handle all data processing from Europe, the Middle East and Africa and serve millions of the site's 800m users. It will cover 30,000 sq m – about the size of 11 football pitches – and be fully packed with data servers. "It is our first data centre to draw its power primarily from renewables, and it features design evolutions like a 70% reduction in our reliance on backup generators," a Facebook spokesman said. The facility – the construction of which will begin immediately – is supposed to lighten Facebook's environmental footprint. Can Walmart Be an Engine of Change for Sustainability? By Climate Guest Contributor on October 13, 2011 at 10:38 am "Can Walmart Be an Engine of Change for Sustainability?
" by Cole Mellino (with JR’s commentary at the end) Walmart’s million-dollar donation to Growing Power, an urban farm that employs teens in a low-income neighborhood in Milwaukee, has created a lot of controversy. This is nothing new for the world’s largest retailer, grocer, and private employer. Many charitable campaigns or sustainability initiatives Walmart undertakes tend to be met with suspicion from the company’s critics, who contend that the company is merely trying to improve its public image.
Over the past few years, Walmart has rolled out a number of sustainability initiatives like improving the efficiency of its truck fleet, installing solar at 30 locations, launching initiatives to support small farmers, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 million metric tons by 2015, among many others. Walmart’s critics are skeptical. Related Post: Unilever, Sainsbury’s: ‘Don’t Wait for Customer Demand – Create It’ October 11, 2011 A report from Sainsbury’s, Unilever and Forum for the Future says companies must drive sustainability, rather than waiting for consumers to demand more sustainable products and services.
Consumer Futures 2020 says that companies should create consumer demand through marketing, communications and innovation. This tactic will make money for the most savvy brands, the report said. The report focuses on detailing four scenarios that explore how patterns of consumption and consumer behavior may change over the next nine years. The sustainability models cover varying degrees of prosperity and of consumer self-help (pictured). The report authors say the scenarios are a practical tool to help organizations throughout the global consumer goods industry plan for the future. A toolkit accompanying the report includes six sketched-up products and services for each scenario, showing how brands may meet consumer needs in 2020. From Environmental to Value Reporting. Accepting the award for Best Sustainability Report last month at the annual Ceres conference, Nike’s Hannah Jones said that it was time to move from “environmental to value reporting.”
In her speech, she made a compelling case for why sustainability reporting is moving from an off-balance sheet activity to being core data for manager, investor, and customer decision-making. In other words, sustainability is becoming vital performance data for modern corporations and organizations. We know that all that fuzzy green and social data tells us a lot about communities, people, and the environment, but is it really ready to take center stage in determining a company’s future? How is such data likely to serve top managers, corporate strategy, and external stake/shareholders? Jones argues that two outcomes of reporting are driving this trend: transparency and resiliency. Clearly, transparency does a lot for companies.
Equally important is the impact that transparency has on managing risk. Puma's environmental profit and loss – does it live up to the hype? | Guardian Sustainable Business. An accountant, the old adage runs, is someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Following the recent publication by German sports giant Puma of an "environmental P&L", the saying might need some refreshing.
Puma's bold step adds a previously unquantified cost into the bean-counting equation – namely, that of a company's footprint on the planet. The bottom-line result comes in at a very precise €94.4m (£82.6m) per year. Groundbreaking though it may be, the final figure is not without its assumptions or shortcomings. First, it presumes an accurate record of the company's environmental impacts. As far as its direct operations go, the retailer is pretty confident. As with most large companies these days, it keeps track of major environmental data from its offices, stores and other direct operations.
Yet Puma claims to be taking account for its whole supply chain too. The quality of that guesswork is important because that's where the major impacts lie. Green IT Boosts Your Bottom Line. The green movement is without a doubt affecting companies both large and small. Telecommuting, the virtual office and Web conferencing are all ways that companies can keep energy costs down while at the same time finding better ways to communicate and optimize business functions. This brief from Qwest Business explores the ways that businesses can leverage environmentally sound practices and technologies to build environmentally sustainable business architectures that save money through enhanced productivity and business efficiencies.
Green IT Boosts Your Bottom Line View more documents from ReadWriteWeb Check out our Resource Center for information from Qwest Business. Disclosure: Qwest Business is a ReadWriteWeb sponsor. Energy Efficiency a Top Strategy For European Businesses. Improving energy efficiency in buildings is the top European strategy for reducing carbon footprints, according to a new study from Johnson Controls, and the resulting cost savings paired with government incentives are what is driving energy efficiency initiatives. The report, “2011 Energy Efficiency Indicator Study: European Regional Results Summary,” surveyed 857 private- and public-sector leaders responsible for energy-related decisions for nonresidential buildings in six of Europe’s largest economies: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Poland and Italy. Respondents ranked energy cost savings as the no. 1 influencer on energy efficiency decisions in both 2010 and 2011, while government and utility incentives ranked second, up from no. 6 in 2010.
Additionally, nearly 3 in 4 decision-makers (73 percent) believe the price of energy will increase over the next 12 months. Rotterdam gaat duurzaam geld verdienen - Groen. Maersk Goes Big & Really, Really Energy Efficient With Massive New Container Ships. Not much opining to add to this other than the say the energy efficient improvements and carbon emission reduction are certainly impressive: Shipper Maersk has announced that it will be buying ten of the world's largest, most efficient container ships ever built.
Dubbed the Triple-E, the massive ships will be the largest seagoing vessels every built at 400m long and a capacity of 18,000 shipping containers--16% larger than the current biggest ships.The environmental cred: The Triple-E will produce 20% lower CO2 per container shipped than the most efficient ships in operation today and 50% lower CO2 than the average container ship traveling between Asia and Europe. On a per-container basis it will also use 35% less fuel. More: MaerskMore on Container Shipping:Modern Cargo Ships Now Traveling Slower Than 19th Century ClippersDanish Cargo Ship Fleet Cuts Fuel Use 30% By Going Half Speed. Eric van Eerdenburg: Lowlands wil energieleverancier worden. Eric van Eerdenburg: Lowlands wil energieleverancier worden Sargasso plaatst de serie Tien over Groen van Duurzaamnieuws.nl door op haar site.
Muziekfestival Lowlands wil de eerste zonne-energiecentrale van Nederland bouwen en al haar afval op een verantwoorde manier verwerken. Festival-directeur Eric van Eerdenburg legt uit waarom. “Alles wat op Lowlands kan, kan ook in jouw stad.” 1. Wat betekent duurzaamheid volgens u? 2. Ik vind ook dat het past bij een festival om er een maatschappelijke ideologie op na te houden. 3.
Dat zie je nu met auto’s, dat je minder belasting betaalt als je een schonere auto neemt. 4. 5. Ik dacht eerst dat dit helemaal niks zou worden. 6. 7. 8. Maar ik wil niet met het vingertje wijzen, ik wil het gewoon doen. 9. 10. De reden dat we dit doen is eigenlijk heel simpel. Duurzaamheid: een modewoord of blijvende term?
Duurzaamheid , Economie , Eric van Eerdenburg , Lowlands , Tien over Groen @7. Klik de "Preview" knop om te zien hoe je reactie er straks uit ziet. MIT Sloan: Two Thirds of Companies Will Up Environmental Efforts This Year. More than two-thirds of companies plan to increase their commitment to sustainability this year, despite the stuttering economic recovery, according to a study by the MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group. The study found that 69 percent of companies plan to increase their investment in and management of sustainability this year. Just over one-quarter (26 percent) plan no change, and only two percent plan to cut back on their commitment.
The report finds that corporate approaches to the environment tend to fall into two camps, with a gap between sustainability “embracers” and “cautious adopters”. Embracers place sustainability high on their agenda, and cautious adopters have yet to focus on sustainability measures besides energy energy cost savings, material efficiency and risk mitigation. Nearly three times as many embracers (66 percent) as cautious adopters (23 percent) said that their organization’s sustainability actions and decisions have increased their profits. BYD: Want to sell our cars? Sell our light bulbs too! China Automaker BYD is in no hurry to launch in the U.S., and it shows in its plan.
BYD has been showing cars at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit for three years now, originally planning to launch an electric car by the end of 2012 to consumers. Now that's looking like 2013, according to Mike Austin, VP of BYD's U.S. division. In the meantime, BYD is testing some cars in a fleet with the Housing Authority of Los Angeles. The plan is for the company to find at least five dealers who are willing to not only sell a BYD e6 electric and a plug-in hybrid, called the f3DM, but also BYD LED lights, solar panels and other products related to "green" living.
"We aren't pursuing the typical sales and distribution model," says Austin. BYD has gained notoriety for its rapid rise in China and for the investment in the company made by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which owns 10% of the company best known for lithium-ion batteries for cellphones and other consumer electronics. Harm Post: ‘We sussen ons geweten met een spaarlamp’ Nederlands bedrijfsleven trekt de groene kar - management - MT Management team. Businesses Bring the Climate-Change Fight to COP16. GE Awards Five ‘Powering the Grid’ Innovation Winners. Unilever's trailblazing environmental plan | Guardian Sustainable Business. Unilever unveils ambitious long term sustainability programme | Business.
What Gets Measured Gets Managed. 7 Tips for Creating a Sustainable Biz Model. HP, Samsung, Lenovo Rise in ‘Green’ Electronics Ranking, Apple Falls. Share photos on Twitter. Nieuw regeerakkoord vraagt om Green Deal met bedrijfsleven. Staples Pushes Key Suppliers for Sustainable Products, Packaging · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives.
Panasonic Unveils ‘Green Plan 2018′ · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives. Is going green worth it? Sustainability, Peter Senge, and the Necessary (Supply Chain) Revolution. DJSI World Drops Toyota Motor, Shell, UniCredit · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives. Business nieuws: Thuiswinkel.org zoekt ideeën voor duurzaam ondernemen. Page Not Found | 404. Corporation or Consumer: Who’s Driving Us toward Sustainability?
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