The management systems community
– 12th Oct 2009
New Energy Finance and the World Economic Forum have warned that unless at least $515bn per annum is invested in clean energy between now and 2030, carbon emissions will reach a level deemed unsustainable by scientists, causing temperatures to rise by two degrees globally.
– 15th Jun 2009
The Businessassurance.com editor is at the Guardian Climate Change Summit in London today and will be providing live updates from the event on Twitter. Follow the editor here: www.twitter.com/lrqa
Businessassurance.com is there as an official media partner.
– 21st May 2009 by Alex Briggs
Today’s thought of the day comes from one of the world’s leading climate change influencers, Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
Failing to recognise the urgency of climate change and acting on it would be nothing less than criminally irresponsible.
At The Guardian Climate Change Summit on 15 June 2009, Yvo de Boer is just one of the leading thinkers from the climate change community who will be sharing insight, solutions and strategies to ensure your business can actively reduce impact on our climate. Click here for further info and a speaker programme.
– 9th Feb 2009
Breaking news at the event was the submission of the ISO 22000 / PAS 220 certification scheme for GFSI (retailer) approval.
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.
Event: 6th Feb 2009 – 8th Feb 2009
The CIES Food safety Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain from 6 - 8 February 2009. It is a unique annual event, bringing together over 500 food safety specialists from over 50 countries
Event: 2nd Dec 2008 – 3rd Dec 2008
While the United States enjoys the safest, most abundant food supply in the world, some consumers are questioning this fact in the wake of recent meat, produce and processed food recalls. Bolstering consumer confidence is the responsibility of every stakeholder in the value chain.
– 27th Oct 2008
AA1000 AS is an international sustainability assurance standard that can be linked to other dominant business audit and assurance standards. Sustainability assurance provides a comprehensive way of holding an organisation to account for its management, performance and reporting on sustainability issues.
– 13th Oct 2008 by Alex Briggs
Our editor will be on hand at this week’s gathering of some of the world’s leading supply chain experts and directors .
We will be blogging from the event, as well as providing our audience with some insight from some of the key topics discussed at the event.
We will be interviewing some of the supply chain world’s most influential thought leaders.
Starting with Monday, October 20th, we will be posting each day next week with either a blog post or an interview.
Event: 16th Dec 2008 – 17th Dec 2008
Measuring Your Water Footprint and Identifying Water Usage Hotspots - Both Internally & Across The Supply Chain – To Assess Risks, Reduce Costs & Guarantee Business Continuity.
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