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ISO 14064

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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Study links Independent Assurance and Consumer Credibility

– 16th Apr 2010

A new report released from CarbonSmart in March reveals that Carbon and sustainability data disclosed by companies in the FTSE 350 lack credibility.

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Measuring Organisational Carbon Footprint, ISO 14064

– 20th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs

ISO 14064: an emerging standard on Greenhouse Gas
accounting and verification is the title of a working paper on ISO’s latest GHG standard. The paper from Kevin Boehmer, Canadian Standards Association and
Secretary for the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change and
Aleg Cherp, ECOLOGIA and Central European University
Budapest and an expert on the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change, takes a closer look at the development of ISO 14064, the voluntary standard for organisations looking to measure and report on their organisation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

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Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001 Certification - Recorded Webinar

– 11th Sep 2009

The latest in the LRQA Business Assurance webinar series, “Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001 Certification” featured client case studies from both key European and US clients. View the recorded webinar

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LRQA Business Assurance The Guardian Climate Change Summit Podcast

– 8th Aug 2009 by Alex Briggs

This podcast is a result of www.businessassurance.com being a media supporter at the Guardian Climate Change Summit in London in June 2009.
Some of the global climate change experts you will hear from in this podcast include Gavin Neath, VP Unilever, Donna Young, Head of Climate Change at BT, Zac Goldsmith, former editor of the Ecologist and one of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists and Andy Atkins, CEO of Friends of the Earth.

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LRQA Business Assurance “Trust and Transparency” Podcast Series

– 27th May 2009 by Alex Briggs

The What Assures Consumers in an Economic Downturn report was commissioned by AccountAbility, sponsored by the Co-operative, supported by LRQA, with the online research being conducted by YouGov. In early June, we will be launching a 10-part audio and video podcast series from interviews and presentations from the launch event. Sign up to our subscription updates or our iTunes podcast link at the top right hand corner of www.businessassurance.com .

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LRQA Business Continuity Video Podcast Series, Episode 2

– 16th Apr 2009 by Alex Briggs

In episode 2 of the LRQA Business Continuity Video Podcast Series, David Austin, one of the world’s leading business continuity experts, talks about the importance of BS 25999, the business continuity management systems standard.

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China Proposes Importing Nations Should Be Responsible for CO2 Emissions

– 18th Mar 2009 by Alex Briggs

In this BBC online article, China’s top climate change negotiator, Li Gao, said his country should not pay for cutting emissions caused by the high demands of other countries.

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2008 Greenhouse Gas Market Report

– 19th Jan 2009 by Madlen King

The 2008 GHG Market report includes a comprehensive coverage of issues of immediate interest that IETA has been privileged to bring together in one publication.

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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.

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