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A quick ascent up the sustainability ladder
From a low position, Bradford & Bingley has turned around its environmental performance. Rachel Brown reports
Share and compare
Benchmarking means different things to different people. But in its simplest form, it is about improving ourselves by learning from others. By comparing activities and aspects of performance with those of similar businesses or service providers, benchmarking enables an organisation to identify performance gaps and seek out new ideas, as well as providing the momentum necessary to drive improvements.
Driving supply chain sustainability
A pioneering initiative involving Coventry City Council and the automotive sector in the West Midlands to raise environmental awareness among small and medium-sized suppliers and encourage them to seek ISO 14001 accreditation has been very successful. Lucie Ponting reports
Sustainability in local government
We look at how a sustainability standard for local authorities aims to help put sustainable development at the heart of council planning
Energy performance of buildings Directive
The deadline for EU member states to implement the energy performance of buildings Directive, which aims to reduce the energy consumption of buildings across the EU by 22% by 2010, was 4 January 2006. The first requirements implementing the Directive in the UK came into force on 6 April. The...
Mixed results signal the end of the Remas project
The project to discover whether there is a link between environmental management systems and companies' environmental performance has ended. We examine the results
10 years of monitoring environmental engagement
The 2005 Business in the Community Environment Index marks the culmination of 10 years of data collection from the well-established corporate benchmarking service and demonstrates the progress many businesses are making in identifying and tackling their environmental impacts. We examine the latest results and look at the challenges facing the...
Environment managers to strategic business leaders
The role of environment managers is rapidly changing. Paul Suff explores their future role and responsibilities and the skills they will increasingly have to demonstrate
Greening the high street
Many of the leading UK supermarket and retail chains are now competing on an environmental platform. Rachel Brown looks at why the environment has moved up the corporate agenda for retailers and examines the strength of their green credentials
Environment Index 2006: a mixed bag of results
The results from Business in the Community's 2006 Environment Index reveal that climate change heads the list of environmental priorities in many organisations, but that firms are struggling to improve their performance in this area. Paul Suff analyses the latest scores
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