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Business Assurance at work - LINPAC/LRQA PAS 2050 Podcast Series, episode 3

– 30th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs

Episode 3 in the LINPAC_LRQA PAS 2050 podcast series features an interview with Mike Hill of Sustain.

Hill stated: “PAS 2050 gives a good basis to work from but until an organisation gets the results verified, there will always be those who doubt the process.”

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Business Assurance at work - LINPAC/LRQA PAS 2050 Podcast Series, episode 2

– 20th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs

Episode 2 in the LINPAC_LRQA PAS 2050 podcast series features an interview with LRQA Climate Change Manager, Paul Smith.

Paul Smith said: “As more companies follow LINPAC Allibert’s lead, environmental performance will be enhanced and verified product carbon footprint data will become an increasingly important factor in both domestic and commercial purchasing decisions.”

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Business Assurance at work - LINPAC/LRQA PAS 2050 Podcast Series, episode 1

– 10th Jul 2010 by Alex Briggs

Episode 1 in the LINPAC_LRQA PAS 2050 podcast series features an interview with Simon Mendes of LINPAC Allibert.

Commenting on the benefits of being verified to the PAS 2050 specification, Simon said: “Internally, the process has helped us to identify and improve performance along the supply chain. Externally, LRQA verification delivers confidence and trust in the data so that we can now help customers to achieve their own environmental targets.”

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LRQA Business Assurance Quote of the Day, May 25, 2010

– 25th May 2010 by Alex Briggs

This quote is taken from the recent Just off the Starting Blocks - Benchmarking Sustainability and Carbon Assurance in the FTSE 350 report:

Verified data is the only credible way to assess whether we are lowering our emissions and meeting our targets as a country.

Ben Murray, managing director
Carbon Smart

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LRQA Business Assurance Thought of the Day - 3rd Party certification = Trust

– 14th Apr 2010 by Alex Briggs

Saffron Rouge, the first retailer in the beauty industry to focus exclusively on organics, has conducted a customer survey on the value of 3rd party certification of a company’s organic and sustainability claims. Saffron Rouge’s study found that 77% of their customers have trust and confidence in third party certification, whereas 72% did not trust natural and organic claims made by brand owners.

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Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen COP 15

– 16th Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs

Lloyd’s Register COP 15 blog
LRQA Copenhagen links of the day:
December 17, 2009
December 16, 2009

Copenhagen Podcast Series
Episode 10, Interview with Paul Genoa, Nuclear Energy Institute
Episode 6 Final episode with Dr Anne-Marie Warris
Episode 5, Standards and Schemes interview with Madlen King, LRQA

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Changing Climate Change Behaviour, Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Link of the Day, December 15, 2009

– 15th Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs

Changing Climate Change Behaviour, Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Link of the Day, December 15, 2009 W Ian Hamilton is today’s Lloyd’s Register COP 15 blogger. He is the Technical Director for Human Engineering, a member of the Lloyd’s Register Group. His insightful post takes a look at what can be done to influence human behaviour in regards to climate change. May be the best post in the series yet?

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Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Blog, December 14, 2009

– 14th Dec 2009 by Alex Briggs

Lloyd’s Register Copenhagen Blog, December 14, 2009 Dr Anne-Marie Warris writes about the rapid changes that are happening at the Bella Centre, the home of the COP 15 Global Climate Change Conference negotiations.

Start of week 2 and reports indicate the waiting times at Bella centre have been getting longer. Late afternoon indications are that they have closed registration and will reduce NGO’s to 7000 individual max tomorrow, so the queues should be interesting…

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MRVAribility

– 11th Dec 2009 by Anne-Marie Warris

Dr Anne-Marie Warris’s Blog from day three of the COP 15.

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COP 15 and the Future of the Human Race

– 11th Dec 2009

Sean Cuthbert’s Blog from day three of the COP 15 conference.

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