Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Companies?
August 29, 2012 7 CommentsIn the last 150 years, three major trends have changed the way humanity consumes. First, industrialization shifted production from self-sufficiency to consumerism. Second, ongoing economic development allowed local economies to expand across entire countries, which was followed by globalization and worldwide markets. Globalization started with colonial powers trading goods between continents and h...
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The OECD Turns Green - Why Saving the Planet Pays Off
April 9, 2012 1 CommentContinued degradation and erosion of natural environmental capital is expected to 2050, with the risk of irreversible changes that could endanger two centuries of rising living standards. What sounds like a new warning by the classic Club of Rome, is actually not a statement delivered by concerned scientists. Instead, it is one of the outcomes of a meeting where Environment Ministers of the world's 34 richest countries came together. Under the catchy title "Making Green Growth Deliver", the OECD Environment Policy Committee (EPOC) evaluated the OECD Environmental Strategy, which was put on th...
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Avoiding the Relocation of Emissions - How to Face Carbon Leakage
April 1, 2012 1 CommentIn the course of the last 20 years, some of the more developed countries achieved a remarkable reduction of carbon emissions. However, taking a closer look at this, we see that a reduction in one place can be closely correlated to an increase of emissions in another. A scope of “one country” is incomplete, since both goods and emissions circulate all around the world. In this article, I'll explain the phenomenon of carbon leakage and will suggest ways to assess emissions in a more precise way. Many western and northern European countries can serve as examples of the above mentioned “carbon ...
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What is Carbon Footprinting and Why Does it Facilitate Effective ...
February 18, 2012Costs to the environment, generated throughout your company's production process, can be assessed in different ways, just as its financial costs can be. One of these methods, probably the most convenient and yet a still exact one, is the carbon footprint. The carbon footprint concentrates on one environmental impact factor only - this factor is the climate related emission, measured in one unit, kilogram CO2-equivalent. As I illustrated in my article on the parallels of carbon footprinting with cost accounting, there are several advantages in connection with the use of a single score method...
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Effectively Managing Greenhouse Gases – Worldwide
October 4, 2011 1 CommentBusiness Follows Nature! Do companies have a conscience to fight global warming? They should have, if we all want to limit the global mean temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, scientists emphasize the need for cutting of global carbon dioxide emissions to 85 percent below 2000 levels by 2050. The question is not how to influence nature anymore, as it has been for several decades. The question is now how to reduce our influence on nature in order to be less influenced by natural disasters. These disasters will automatically become stronger and stronger, th...
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Celebrations, come on, let’s celebrate and have a good time. And ...
September 27, 2011 2 CommentsDo you know what day today is? Yes, it is google’s 13th birthday. But this is not what I want to write about. Today is Earth Overshoot Day, hooray! From now on to the end of the year humanity consumes resources that Mother Earth can theoretically not provide. In other words, today is something like the “Negative Sustainability Day”. So that’s all for this year! If mankind would take sustainability seriously we would have to stop consuming resources NOW for the rest of 2011. Each year the Global Footprint Network (GFN) calculates the day from which on we consume resources on tick. To do ...
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Biomass Lagging Behind Prospering Wind and Solar Markets
September 1, 2011 6 CommentsThe newest Country Attractiveness Index for Renewable Energy, conducted by Ernst & Young, rates China the most attractive country for investments in renewable energy (71 points), followed by the USA (67). As reports Business Green, “little has changed at the top of the rankings since the previous quarter.” Four times a year, analyzed countries obtain a score of up to 100 points for their national renewable energy markets and infrastructures. 65% of the total score is provided by the separate wind energy index, 18% by solar and 17% by biomass and other energies. There has been little movem...
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