Sustainable Business

Yesterday, new rules entered into force to make sustainable products the norm on the EU Single Market and reduce their overall environmental and climate impacts. Building on the achievements of the existing Ecodesign Directive, the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) will ensure that products last longer, use energy and resources more efficiently, are easier to repair and recycle, …

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Sixty-nine percent of CEOs view sustainability as a leading business growth opportunity in 2024, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner, Inc. “As CEOs reset their long-term strategies, environmental sustainability remains one of the leading factors that will frame competition,” said Kristin Moyer, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner. “Despite much corporate greenwash, recent …

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Technological innovation moves fast, but sometimes businesses can move slowly. Or even not at all. Take for example the news from Reuters that the Japanese government officially, and finally, decided last month to cease the use of floppy disks for things like business and regulatory reporting, among the over 1,000 other required use cases. The last, new floppy disk was manufactured …

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Penn Carey Law’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic contributes to economic development with a focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs and social impact startups. Since its founding in 1981 in collaboration with Wharton, the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC) at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School has helped launch eateries, artists and arts organizations, fashion ventures, health science enterprises, environmental businesses, …

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ESG reporting platform developed on IBM’s cloud offered to Ricoh partners. Ricoh New Zealand is offering to ease the pain of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting through a new alliance offering CorEST software from local IBM partner CorPlan. The move also further bolsters the biggest and fastest growing part of Ricoh’s local business – …

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