Reducing value chain carbon emissions: a practical guide for enterprise businesses.

Normative has developed a comprehensive new guide to explain how to engage your value chain in carbon reduction.

Value chains play a key role in reducing emissions. 92% of an average company’s emissions originate in the value chain, according to CDP. Beginning to reduce the carbon emissions from your value chain can seem like a tricky process. But it’s well worth it, both for the climate and for your business. If you want to reduce your carbon footprint – and thus, your climate impact – then reducing your value chain emissions will make a sizable difference.

In the downloadable guide Enterprise Value Chain Carbon Emission Reduction, you’ll find six building blocks to measure and reduce your business’s value chain carbon emissions.

By following this guide, you empower your company to make the carbon reductions necessary to fight climate change while keeping your company competitive and compliant.

Can you really afford not to invest in diversity and inclusion?

Each year, discrimination at work around gender identity, ethnicity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation cost millions of dollars to our national economies and companies. At the same time, the COVID-19 crisis has also demonstrated that inclusion and diversity matter more than ever. Therefore, embracing it as a core value is a must for a sustainable future of work.

But what can be done to make this ideal a reality for millions of workers and employers worldwide?

Tune in and listen to the Podcast to find out more!

To say 2021 has “been a year” for the natural products industry would indeed be an understatement (and also an intolerable cliché). Yet despite its many challenges, as we were forced to face the harsh reality that the pandemic might be here to stay, fresh perspectives and new natural products industry trends that are transforming the overall consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry for the better also emerged.

Consumer behaviors are changing, and with that comes the opportunity for the natural products industry not just to meet consumers where they are, but also to predict where they’re heading. This 2022 natural products industry trends forecast reveals a shift from merely surviving today's problems to creating solutions for a brighter future in 12 key areas.

The copy paper A4 CALIMA NATURAL PAPER is manufactured from sugarcane waste and is unbleached. It is TREE-FREE, and it is without bleaching, optical brighteners, dyeing, and color chemicals. It prints in your office and home printer in a sustainable way!

"I am a passionate advocate of the role of young people, students and university researchers in tackling climate change. I’ve written of the need for young people to 'study to leave school with a mindset to be creators of alternative, competitive low carbon solutions for the mainstream economy'... I’ve argued forcefully that climate action won’t come about through policy and regulation alone but economic opportunities, innovation and enterprise."

Dr. Richard Munang, climate action and development policy expert who won the Africa Green Champion Award 2020, shares his optimism in youth as the climate action solution provider on this blog post.

‘It was a crazy idea to put a linear economy on a circular planet. Initially, we may not have had many problems when it was small-scale. But now that we are overshooting all planetary boundaries, there is no space for a linear economy.’ said Robert-Jan van Ogtrop, founder of Circle Economy.

Check the blog to read the full interview written by Laxmi Haigh, Lead of Editorial at Circle Economy.

Climate innovation diversification and green business models

The need to address climate change has become a corporate priority that sits at the heart of boardroom concerns, not just for environmental reasons but also because it's what consumers want and what investors want.

Companies have started to commit to change, but we need to go much further - ‘sustainability as usual' is not enough any longer. Companies need science-based targets and full transparency about what they're doing - and they need to look outside their core business to reap the climate and business benefits.

Cobalt, lithium, nickel and graphite, historically of secondary interest to miners, have gained exceptional value in a world trying to set fossil fuels aside due to their use in electric batteries.

But will mining ever been sustainable and fair?

From Congo to Serbia, the rising quest for these materials is demonstrating how the clean energy revolution, meant to save the planet from perilously warming temperatures in an age of enlightened self-interest, is already caught in a familiar cycle of exploitation, greed and gamesmanship that often puts narrow national aspirations above all else.

The Covid pandemic has made even more evident our reliance on technology. Indeed, our way of working has changed - with some of us even working remotely full time.

We often see this as a more sustainable pattern, but is this really the case?

Computers, servers and other electronic devices require large amounts of natural resources.The energy to run them emits high amounts of CO2, and
programmed obsolescence and the low percentage of recycling are generating e-waste. Plus, the vast majority of data in the cloud are not used.

Without denying the many benefits brought by these technologies, including for the environment, it is important for users, services providers and policy makers to understand what the impacts are and to learn how we can move towards greener digital technologies.

Read the brief to discover more!