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  • Environmental Claims

    Friday January 18 2008

    Environmental green labelling

    As companies expand their ‘green’ product range, consumers are faced with a barrage of environmental terms, symbols and labels...

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  • Carbon Offsetting

    Sunday January 20 2008

    Carbon Offsetting

    With climate change emerging as an issue at the forefront of people’s minds, organisations are realising the risks involved in not taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint.

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  • Forest Certification Schemes

    Thursday June 12 2008

    Toilet seats, furniture, picture frames, kitchen utensils, paper, paint brushes….many common household and office items are often made from wood. Do we ever consider where this wood originates?

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  • Sustainable Procurement

    Friday January 18 2008

    Sustainable Procurement

    Sustainable procurement is a precautionary approach to managing impacts of a product or service over the whole life cycle.

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  • Deforestation and poverty behind Haiti flood crisis

    Sunday September 07 2008

    With severe flooding, hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands lacking food and basic provisions, Haiti has been hit badly so far this hurricane season, with four severe storms in less than four weeks.

  • A sustainability dilemma

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    Biofuels not only increase fuel security by making us less dependent on oil and gas, in turn reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which contribute to climate change, but their production results in increased rural development in the developing world, thus reducing poverty. Although there is a certain amount of truth in this statement, it is an overly simplistic view.

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  • Energy use in buildings and Energy Performance Certificates

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    According to the CLG (The Department for Communities and Local Government) and many other sources, the UK's buildings are responsible for almost 50% of the UK’s energy consumption and carbon emissions .

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