Signed by CEOs of major pharmaceutical companies including Novo Nordisk, Merck, AstraZeneca, and GSK, the letter makes it clear: suppliers must prioritize sustainability or risk getting left behind. Pharmaceutical companies are setting firm expectations for their supply chains to reduce carbon emissions and align with net-zero targets, signaling that sustainability is no longer optional, but a critical business requirement.
Optimizing Energy Efficiency: A Practical Approach for Business
Energy efficiency is a crucial component of cost savings and sustainability for businesses. The first step in optimizing energy use is tracking consumption. Understanding how much energy your facility uses, whether you operate a single site or multiple locations, provides a baseline for comparison and improvement.
Maximizing Profit Through Waste Reduction in Your Facilities
Life Cycle Assessment vs Carbon Accounting: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters
Understanding the difference between Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Carbon Accounting is crucial for organizations looking to make data-driven decisions, reduce emissions, and improve financial performance. By leveraging these tools, businesses can stay ahead of evolving regulations while enhancing operational efficiency and brand reputation.
Using Sustainable Operations Assessments to Set Your Decarbonization Strategy with Lora Urbaniak from SSC
Setting a decarbonization strategy requires an understanding of your operations. Sustainable Solutions Corporation (SSC) conducts Sustainable Operations Assessments (SOA) to help companies understand how to reduce their energy, water and waste. In this episode, Tad and Julianna sit down with Lora Urbaniak, Senior Project Manager at SSC, to discuss what an SOA is, how SSC uses SOA to help companies set their decarbonization strategy, the cost savings and benefits of an SOA, areas where SSC usually finds the biggest potential for dollar savings, and how SOA can help a company meet their sustainability goals or science-based targets.
How to Reduce Your Scope 3 Emissions
Measuring and managing Scope 3 emissions presents greater challenges than Scope one and Scope 2 emissions for many companies. Scope 3 emissions usually represent the greatest contribution to a company’s emissions profile. In this episode, Tad explains what Scope 3 emissions are, how a company can start to understand them, and how companies can reduce their Scope 3 emissions.
Everything You Need to Know About Renewable Energy
How to Reduce Your Product's Embodied Carbon
Embodied carbon is a hot topic in the building product’s community, but it is important for all businesses to consider when manufacturing their products. In this episode, Tad explains what embodied carbon is, how companies can reduce their product’s embodied carbon, and the benefits of embodied carbon reduction.