Webinar - Product Sustainability Dos and Donts and the Business Benefits

Leading sustainability strategies have shifted in the last five years from enterprise-focussed, looking at the impacts within a firm’s own four walls, to strategies encompassing product-based sustainability initiatives. This recognises the sheer scale of the life cycle impact of products, from raw material sourcing and manufacture to usage and disposal.

Join this Verdantix webinar as they reveal the business benefits of product sustainability, key features of leading strategies and emerging best practices. They will analyze the progress of buzzword concepts including sustainable innovation, closing the loop and net positive strategies and identify the trends shaping next generation strategies.

Webinar - 360report: Sustainability as an Essential Success Factor

Get to know 360report during a 45 minute free webinar on September 26, 2013. Matthias Keitel leads the webinar and answers all your questions. In recent years, public interest in the sustainability of economic activity has increased and as a result, companies are increasingly adopting the practice of sustainability reporting and benefiting from the economic advantages and additional market opportunities.

Sustainable corporate practice implies a company's acceptance of social, ecologic and economic responsibility and the orientation of economic activities towards this responsibility. However, sustainability comprises more than good sustainability performance within the organization's own business operations. In addition, investors, suppliers and employees have to be geared to recognizing and maintaining the same values.

Webinar - Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative (HCMI)

This webinar takes you step-by-step through the information needed and how to calculate the carbon footprint of any hotel stay or meeting. The trend for greater transparency in carbon reporting is growing and this webinar explains why it is increasingly important for hotels to know their carbon footprint. How to measure the carbon footprint of a hotel stay or meeting – The Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative.

Organic Produce and Sustainable Seafoods

Organic and certified sustainability seafoods are increasingly popular, they are also healthier and environmentally less damaging than traditional foods. Organically grown foods are less destructive to the land, and because they do not require chemical fertilizers and they have a lower greenhouse gas profile.

According to a recent United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report titled Green Economy and Trade-Trends, Challenges and Opportunities, The global market for organic food and beverages is projected to grow from $62.9 billion in 2011 to $105 billion by 2015.

The total value of seafood that has been farmed according to certified sustainability standards is forecast to increase to $1.25 billion by 2015, up from $300 million in 2008, according to the report.