1st Edition Published on August 14, 2020 by Routledge This handbook includes contributions from established and emerging scholars from around the world and draw…
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A round-up of recent reports on sustainable business and clean technology.
How is Konica Minolta working towards the SDGs? In 2009, we formulated our Eco Vision 2050 – a long-term plan to achieve a sustainable future. It’s based on our corporate philosophy and consists of three major targets: 1. A global goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% throughout the product lifecycle by 2050 compared to 2005. Cooperate with stakeholders to achieve CO2 emission reductions greater than product lifecycle, emissions, and realize Carbon Minus status…
To mark the launch of the long-awaited EURO 2020 tournament, Food Active and the Children’s Food Campaign have teamed up with a new survey to hear what parents think about the marketing of less healthy food and drink through sport. As EURO 2020 finally kicks off on 11 June, so has a massive sponsorship campaign with Coca Cola. A Summer of Sport-themed junk food promotions are popping up everywhere, and that’s no Pringoooals joke. Whether it’s Salt and Lineker flavour Walkers’ crisps at the UEFA Champions League or Peter Crouch sitting on a Just Eat delivery bike, McDonalds adverts splashed across the Olympic swimming and tracks, or cricket teams dressed as KP Snack packets for England Cricket Board’s new family-friendly tournament The Hundred, the race to use sport to sell us more unhealthy food is definitely on.
Sustainability factors are critical to successful project outcomes in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, from exceeding performance requirements to improving cost control. Building design and construction stakeholders are faced with global challenges regarding limited resources and the impact of development on the surrounding environment. This panel will explore where responsibility for sustainability outcomes lies as we experience the convergence of design, engineering, and construction teams in common data environments. We will discuss the state of the industry in terms of solution maturity for advanced building insights on topics such as embodied carbon, resiliency, and materiality. We will also seek to understand key workflows that meet financial project goals while addressing environmental concerns and uncovering sustainability outcomes at the intersection of performance and ethics.
Covid-19 has caused a drastic downturn in sustainable lending.
SmartTags: IoT Product Passport for Circular Economy Based on Printed Sensors and Unique Item-Level Identifiers Nenad Gligoric 1,* , Srdjan Krco 1, Liisa Hakola 2, Kaisa Vehmas 2, Suparna De 3, Klaus Moessner 3, Kristoffer Jansson 4, Ingmar Polenz 5 and Rob Van Kranenburg 6…