As energy prices increase, industries are more and more aware that energy is an expensive commodity that has to be used efficiently in order to reduce the costs that it entails. When companies realized that improving energy efficiency was not only about energy performance, but also about the business performance as a whole, i.e. about improving profits, the motivation for energy eco management became evident. (more…)
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a multi-stakeholder process and independent institution whose mission is to develop ...
The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is the EU voluntary scheme for organizations willing to commit themselves to evaluate, i ...
Although it is significant that many of the above four imperatives are qualitative, not quantitative, such new efforts have begun t ...
In the pursuit of superior cars, electronic products, and computing, several leading multinational corporations began in the last q ...
There are only a few compulsory energy efficiency programs aimed at industrial facilities. It is only recently that the EU introduc ...
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a multi-stakeholder process and independent institution whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. These Guidelines are for voluntary use by organizations for reporting on the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of their activities, products and services. (more…)
As energy prices increase, industries are more and more aware that energy is an expensive commodity that has to be used effic ...
ISO document 14040 identifies four areas for using life cycle analysis (LCA) results: (1) identifying opportunities to improve ...
The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is the EU voluntary scheme for organizations willing to commit themselves to evaluate, i ...
Bioenergy produced from biomass is sometimes called a carbon-neutral energy source, because the same quantity of carbon released wh ...
Energy labeling is a policy tool that informs consumers about the energy performance of appliances and thereby encourages them ...
