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Why carbon tracking and reporting is necessary to hold corporations accountable

GreenBiz

Why carbon tracking and reporting is necessary to hold corporations accountable. Now, new breakthrough climate accounting technologies are emerging as solutions to track and verify energy and carbon emissions, and report energy purchases and consumption. Let’s consider a relatively simple market, such as commercial real estate.

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Sustainability Guide for Real Estate: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

With sustainability taking the forefront of many company agendas, the real estate industry is due for a seismic shift. Demand for real estate companies that practice sustainability is rapidly increasing and is expected to accelerate upwards as younger generations enter the housing market. Invest in Electric Vehicles.

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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy

GreenBiz

In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00.

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4 Features to Look for in an Eco-Friendly Home

Green Living Guy

He established a carbon-neutral goal for the coming years. Eco-friendly real estate […]. President Biden’s Build Back Better plan amplifies the national effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. America can work together and limit adverse ecological effects by investing in sustainability.

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M&G Real Estate plots pathway to net zero by 2050

Business Green

Global real estate investor says it is "repositioning its business" to meet its new decarbonisation goals, which include reducing 'corporate emissions' to net zero by 2030 and carbon neutrality across its portfolio twenty years later. At the close of 2019, 31 per cent of its buildings were issued with certificates.

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These Carbon-Neutral Bioceramic Geodesic Dome Homes Last 500 Years And Don’t Rot, Burn, Or Rust

Forbes Green Tech

The invention enabling it? Bioceramic, the same material used to coat pipe and knee joint replacements and found in NFL quarterback Tom Brady’s TB12 “recovery sleepwear” clothing.

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New report says the building and construction sector can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.