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Davos 2012: Reasons to be optimistic(?)
There shall be transformation, or so goes the dictum of this year’s World Economic Forum – the annual meeting of the powerful, the smart and the wealthy in Davos, Switzerland. Never, it seems, were times as dire as now, resources that scarce and solutions so urgently needed. Even in the darkest of times, however, there … Continue reading
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- New Zealand businesses need to speed up implementing environmental and sustainability management systems, says Manuel Seidel, co-founder of KBS Sustainable Innovation Partners. The Auckland-based sustainability consultant with German roots finds it particularly worrying that so few companies in New Zealand strive for the international ISO 14001 environmental management standard, despite its huge uptake overseas (in China alone, 55,000 companies are certified ISO 14001, 6,000 in Germany, as Manuel points out in his blog). With overseas markets changing and corporate customers asking suppliers to have an EMS in place, there is an urgency to get New Zealand's businesses community educated on the benefits of having a credible, environmental management system (EMS) in place to remain competitive globally. As Manuel puts it, "In implementing such a system it is possible to keep up with the changing consumer and legislative trends – one day it's carbon, the next it's waste management or greening the supply chain. An EMS provides the overall framework to implement an effective environmental sustainability strategy." (more...)
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