Assets About Biodiversity/Natural Capital
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Can Performance Reporting for Different Companies Be Both Context-Based and Comparable?
One of the hallmarks of context-based sustainability (CBS) as an approach to performance accounting in business is that it features the use of organization- or company-specific metrics. Indeed, a basic tenet of CBS is that no two organizations are ex... View More
The Time Is Now for a More Soulful Way of Business
Customer experience design is the forgotten dimension of sustainability. We need to transcend what have now become well-defined approaches and definitions of customer experience, to help companies understand why their offerings are no longer resonati... View More
BioMar Celebrates 10 Years of Strategic Sustainability
Today at Aqua Nor 2017, the BioMar Group takes a moment to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the BioSustain™ concept. Sustainability has long been in the DNA of BioMar however the development of BioSustain firmly established the company as the fore... View More
Deep Sea Mining: The Next Gold Rush?
As determined stakeholders continue to innovate proposed 2019 expedition has its sights set on the coast of Papua New Guinea, where if all goes according to plan, three 200-ton machines will troll the bottom of the Bismarck Sea for deposits of copper... View More
BioMar Group Reports Below 1 FIFO Ratio
Advances in innovative technology by BioMar and a high priced fish oil and fishmeal market enabled the BioMar Group to average a below one FIFO ratio (Fish-In:Fish-Out) for its raw material usage in 2016 for the first time in its history. This is one... View More
Natural Capital Impact Group Develops Single Biodiversity Metric to Help Companies Reduce Impacts
To make it easier for companies to reduce their environmental impacts, businesses such as Kering, Interserve, Mars and Asda have banded together to develop a new healthy ecosystem metric designed to support companies as they make the transition to a ... View More
Bechtel Innovation and Sustainability: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Global stressors — from water scarcity to modern-day slavery — are reinventing traditional business models across heavy industries that support a more secure, sustainable future. As one of the largest engineering, procurement and construction com... View More
Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Unilever Set to 'Catalysing Action' on New Plastics Economy
Due to their functional properties and low cost, plastics have become an integral part of our global economy and have seen their production increase twenty-fold over the past half-century. Despite their indisputable benefits, plastics have significan... View More
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: The #BusinessCase for Valuing Natural Capital
For the past year, climate change has returned to the top of the international agenda. While I was attending COP22 in Marrakech last month, the news broke that Trump had been elected President of the United States, with widespread possible implicatio... View More
New York City’s Street Tree Map Proves Ecological, Economic Benefits of Urban Greenery
The value of ecosystem services has, up until recently, gone largely unrecognized by governments and corporations. While nature is inherently valuable for a variety of obvious reasons, putting a price tag on it isn’t exactly a straightforward proce... View More
Let’s Talk Business: Bridging the Gap Between the Financial World and the Natural
Since the signing of the Paris agreement, more and more initiatives are emerging and making waves in terms of carbon reduction. However, our planet is much more complicated than a carbon cycle, in fact, there are nine planetary boundaries to look out... View More
How a Beer Maker And a Bottled Water Company Want to Save Sierra Forests
California’s forests are in crisis. A lethal combination of drought, wildfires, warmer temperatures and pests has destroyed 66 million trees in the past six years. Restoring our forests won’t be easy. Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature recogniz... View More
Sustainable Brands Releases Full Program for Annual New Metrics Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, October 7, 2016 – Sustainable Brands® recently announced the full program for New Metrics’16, scheduled for November 14-16 in Boston, MA. Drawing together over 400 global business leaders, the conference will focus on the emerging... View More
Natural Capital Protocol Promises to ‘Revolutionize’ Business Value, Decision-Making
Two years in the making, the first global Natural Capital Protocol was launched today. The standardized framework brings together and builds on a number of approaches that already exist to help business measure and value natural capital. The Natural ... View More
Researchers from ASU, Yale, NOAA Develop Equation for Calculating Value of Natural Capital
Many businesses have come to better understand the critical importance of nature as an input, but the question still remains as to how its value compares to other assets — not as lumber or drinking water or a fancy dinner, but as standing forests, ... View More
Countries Ranked on Sustainable Competitiveness; US and UK Score Below China, Russia
Think tank and sustainable management consultancy SolAbility recently released its fourth Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index (GSCI), a ranking of 180 countries for “sustainable competitiveness,” defined as the ability to generate and sustai... View More
The Plastic Bank: How 'Social Plastic' Is Giving Value to Waste, Improving Lives Around the World
At SB ’14 San Diego, the Plastic Disclosure Project, the UN Environment Program and Trucost unveiled the fist-ever assessment of plastic use in business, along with the business case for dealing with its global impacts: Among the sobering figures, ... View More
Dow Launches New Line of Sustainable Packaging Resins
The Dow Chemical Company on Tuesday announced the launch a new family of resins that offers unprecedented performance levels to help customers address some of today’s most challenging packaging performance gaps.Innate Precision Packaging Resins are... View More
Introducing NatureBank
NatureBank is at the intersection of finance and natural assets, producing long term, sustainable returns.Oct. 20, 2015, Vancouver, BC – In response to growing demand for sustainable commodities including cocoa, carbon and timber, Vancouver, BC-ba... View More
