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The Economics of ISO 14001

– 13th Jan 2009 by Alex Briggs

BT Germany has just become the 5th BT country to be certified against the global environmental management system standard, ISO 14001, following a four-day external audit by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA).
Jens Krause, BT Germany’s quality manager commented on the value of ISO 14001 certification, “As well as helping to retain business, we believe the improvements will save more than €900,000 each year, and cut our carbon footprint by 12 tonnes.”

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ACCA UK announces the winners of the ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards 2008

– 5th Jan 2009

Winning companies were presented with their trophies at the ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards 2008 ceremony on 3 December 2008.

The Agenda 09

Event: 17th Mar 2009 – 27th Mar 2009

Next year’s theme for ‘The agenda 09’ will be ‘Organisation Resilience’. This will address how management systems can help your organisation mitigate risks to the business and improve its resilience and sustainability in the current market conditions.

Green supply chain, shouldn’t everybody have one?

– 3rd Dec 2008

A recent article on Manufacturing & Logistics IT website talks about the rapidly rising energy costs and environmental concerns have driven ‘green’ issues ever higher on the business agenda.

BT Pledges 80% Emissions Cut, Links Financial And Environmental Performance

– 10th Jul 2008

BT has announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2020 and published a “Climate Stabilization Intensity Target”.

BT’s Expansion of Materiality in CSR Operations

– 20th Nov 2007 by Sarah Whitworth

A recent article by Kevin Moss, who has responsibility for implementation of BT’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy for BT in North America, looks at BT’s CSR operations and how they have expanded this by the help of AccountAbility and LRQA, a part of the Lloyd’s Register Group.

Materiality Breakfast Briefing

– 5th Dec 2006

Alan Knight, Head of Standards and Related Services at AccountAbility, Deborah Evans, Business Manager - Corporate Reporting and Assurance at LRQA and Chris Tuppen, Head of SD & Corporate Accountability at BT present the concept of materiality, how different companies have tackled the issue, and propose a Materiality Framework that everyone can use.

BT wins sustainability award

– 16th Nov 2006

The annual SustainAbility awards have placed BT at the top of a global league table of sustainable business practice.

BT leads the field in SustainAbility’s latest biannual benchmarking survey of leading practice in corporate sustainability reporting, published in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Standard and Poor’s.

Materiality Report

– 9th Nov 2006

Materiality Report Today’s non financial reporting models are broken. The problem isn’t that CSR reports are ‘greenwash’. Or even that they are unread, unloved data dumps. The problem is materiality - determining and reporting on the non financial factors which really matter.

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