Case studies, taken from partners across the Green Economy Canada network, provide real-world examples of businesses and organizations that have taken the lead in reducing their carbon emissions — resulting in lower operating costs and improved profitability across Ontario.
AET Group is an environmental consultancy that provides auditing and scientific services throughout North America. Industry experts in waste management and GHG quantification, AET's organizational commitment to local sustainability has resulted in an objective to meet a waste diversion rate of 90% in their offices.
Athena Software is a dynamic and innovative global company, providing leading-edge client information management (CMS/ MIS) software solution services to health and human service organizations. Upon joining the Regional Carbon Initiative in 2008, their sustainability efforts have seen reduced consumption and increased levels of staff engagement.
Canada Rubber Group is a manufacturer of industrial and automotive parts. The green team helped create a mission, complete a carbon inventory, work on action planning and target setting, and assisted with community engagement.
The City of Kitchener has set an emissions reduction target of 20% from their 2015 baseline. Sustainable Waterloo Region has helped the City focus on internal collaboration, communications strategies, establishing green teams, and more.
Crawford & Company is the world's largest independent provider of claims management solutions to the risk management and insurance industry as well as self-insured entities. A member of the Regional Carbon Initiative since 2009, Crawford has focused their sustainability efforts on asset and technology investments.
Hubbell Incorporated is an international manufacturer of quality electrical and electronic products for a broad range of non-residential and residential construction, industrial and utility applications. Hubbell joined Durham Partners in Project Green and has focused on employee engagement and efficiency measures.
The Regional Municipality of York has an emissions reduction target of 47% by 2051. One initiative, the anti-idling program for ambulances, resulted in an annual savings of $50 000 and GHG emissions reduction of 102 tonnes per year.
Operating from a single plant in Cambridge, VeriForm provides custom precision sheet metal and plate fabricating services across North America for the mining, forestry and machine building industries. VeriForm joined the Regional Carbon Initiative in 2009 and, as of 2015, became a 100% carbon neutral operation.
A selection of articles from around the web pertaining to business and sustainability.
Corporate sustainability is at a crossroads, where individual organizations have driven ahead as leaders and developed a process for how to integrate sustainability into your corporate culture and decision-making, finds an eight year study from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group.
Over 75% of workers aged 15-35 and 51% of baby boomers polled said they were willing to pay more for sustainable offerings. Brands that establish a reputation for environmental stewardship have an opportunity to grow market share and build loyalty among consumers of all ages.
Today's executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company's business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.
Learning content from various ClimateWise events, such as webinars and seminars.
Corporations and governments in Canada are committing to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. What do businesses need to understand about their choices and possibilities in moving to a low carbon high productivity economy? In episode one of this series Steven Pacifico of Epic Investment Services and Steven Costa of Ameresco Canada discuss some of the key drivers of moving towards Net Zero buildings and the new business model EaaS, (Energy as a Service)
After fifteen years, there is a new party governing Ontario. Would it be business as usual under Premier Doug Ford? Join ClimateWise for a non-partisan, in-depth panel discussion on how sustainability in the business sector can be affected by the provincial election results.
ClimateWise Business Network, in partnership with Energy@Work, hosted a workshop on Global Adjustment (GA) to address the charge on your electricity bill that provided an overview, discussed important deadlines and the difference between Class A and Class B.
