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A Quick Guide To Sustainability Reporting Regulations In The EU

Sustainability reporting is a part of the European Green Deal initiative aiming to transform the EU to be the first climate-neutral continent. Its objective is to help various stakeholders – including investors, NGOs, and customers – and evaluate companies’ sustainability performance. Since 2018, all EU Public Interest Entities with over 500 employees have been required […]

Green Profile: Sir David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough, an English broadcaster, author and biologist, has been one of the world’s most prominent environmentalists for over half a century. Born in 1926, he began his television career in 1952, when he joined the BBC. His first show, Zoo Quest, was a large success, as he provided a new way of bringing […]

Green Profile: Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan biologist who passed away in 2011, is the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She received the distinction due to “her contribution to the cause of sustainable development.”In 1976, Wangari started the Green Belt Movement, an organization that fights forest land consumption, aiming to engage […]

Green Profile: Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio, who now stands at 43 years old and is most known for his role as Titanic’s Jack Dawson, has a cachet of around $25 million per film followed and a successful career as a producer. With his own financial backing and storytelling powers, DiCaprio is now able to devote himself even more strongly […]

Green Profile: Francesco Farinetti

Francesco Farinetti, the eldest of Oscar Farinetti’s three children has recently followed in his father’s step and taken the mantle of delegate for the sustainability-oriented italian supermarket Green Pea. With experience from his family owned chain mall Eataly where he had been the CEO until 2019, Farinetti boasts an impressive trail of experience in the […]

Sustainability Certifications

Ever since the late 1980s and 90s with the growing awareness from the public of the immense negative impact that companies could have on the environment, discourse has shifted from focusing solely on the financial performance and profitability of the business to a new accounting approach dubbed the ‘triple bottom line’. This business concept espouses […]

EcoVadis

In the wake of recent interest from companies and businesses across the globe in sustainability measures and ratings, a conundrum has emerged: how does one make sense of the hundreds of measurements, benchmarks and tests that need to be undertaken? Moreover, what would these actions and processes entail in terms of time, financial assets and […]

Blockchain In Supply Chain

Blockchain, in simple words, is a shared ledger which is shared across the various nodes that are connected in the network of the specific blockchain. As the name suggests, it stores data in blocks which are chained or linked together with the help of cryptography. Data can be added to the blocks and can be […]

Social Sustainability

Nowadays, we hear the word “sustainability” everywhere. In most cases, we talk of environmental efforts, but what of social sustainability? The concept relates to how businesses manage themselves and is defined by the UN as “identifying and managing business impacts, both positive and negative, on people.” Ultimately, it’s about going beyond the usual environmental impacts […]

Green Transition Recommendations

On June 16 this year, the European Union Council adopted a series of recommendations aimed at “ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality” for all organisations and businesses within the Union. This adoption follows that of the Green Deal, a set of proposals whose overarching goal is to see Europe become the first climate-neutral continent. […]