Sustainable Business

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 – …

‘It’s just good business’: Ricoh NZ teams with CorPlan to tackle ESG pain points Read More »

Businesses have never been under so much pressure to deliver on sustainability but balancing it with profitability is becoming increasingly complex in a world of geopolitical unrest and disinformation. “We once had a client who said, ‘you can’t be green if you’re in the red.’ I think that’s a really important way to think about …

The growth at all costs era is over: How can businesses be sustainable and hold bottom line? Read More »

Update to 2025 Roadmap carries forward unfinished targets from the original plan and outlines new steps toward circular design, based on insights from 130+ US Plastic Pact Activators. Today, the US Plastics Pact released its latest strategic plan to help companies change how they design, use and reuse plastics in their packaging. Roadmap 2.0 is an actionable plan designed …

US Plastics Pact Unveils Bold New Roadmap to Transform the Use of Plastics Read More »

Paris Olympic officials had set an ambitious target of halving their overall carbon footprint compared with the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Games Of all the decisions Paris Olympics organisers made about where to hold each sport, sending surfing competitions to the other side of the world in the Pacific waters of Tahiti provoked the …

Paris aims for most sustainable Olympics, organisers admit plan not perfect Read More »

Jeff Bartel is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group, a private investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami. As global recognition of climate and environmental crises increases, the concept, investment in and operation of “green business” serve to offer opportunities to reduce ecological footprints and enable companies to develop themselves as market leaders in …

Accelerating Growth Of Green Business To Help Reach Net-Zero Emissions Read More »