A company’s total greenhouse gas emissions, both direct and indirect, are measured through carbon accounting. Forward-thinking organizations can’t ignore this process, as they just need strong greenhouse gas accounting. Find the basics of carbon accounting and its importance for your business in 2025. Identify emission sources, track progress, follow regulations, and line up with global sustainability goals.
The Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) framework makes it mandatory for organizations to include their energy use and carbon emissions data in annual reports. This requirement applies to all quoted companies of any size, large unquoted UK-incorporated companies, and large limited liability partnerships (LLPs). Knowing about SECR obligations matters both for regulatory compliance and environmental stewardship.
The blue economy represents sustainable ocean resource usage that drives economic growth and creates jobs while protecting ocean ecosystems. The concept took shape around 2012 as an ocean-based counterpart to the “green economy” and since then has grown significantly.
Delve into the 2025 implementation of AI for sustainability, focusing on smart monitoring systems, urban planning applications, and climate resilience solutions. By understanding these advancements, organizations can develop more effective strategies to combat environmental challenges while ensuring responsible AI deployment.
AI and climate change share a complex relationship that cannot be ignored. It is evident that AI contributes to environmental challenges, but it also offers solutions to fight them. Can AI’s potential environmental benefits outweigh its growing carbon footprint? Or does its expanding energy demand push our climate goals further away? The path forward requires balancing innovation with environmental responsibility, ensuring that technological progress doesn’t undermine the very planet it aims to protect.
Decarbonization plans and the chance of the EU’s goal to reduce GHG emissions by 55% by 2030 are realistically not feasible. Progress in addressing climate change is significantly behind schedule. Recent data shows potential excess emissions of up to 29% in various European economic sectors, meaning we are falling significantly short of reduction targets.
Can global brands create practical circular textile solutions? We explore how brands now run innovative collection programs and designs with the environment in mind and how the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles disrupts the industry’s future while highlighting successful case studies of brands that are leading the way in textile circularity.
Effective corporate sustainability training is transforming organizations from the inside out. These initiatives are enhancing employee engagement, fostering a culture of social responsibility, and improving ESG performance. From sustainability management training to specialized ESG training for employees, businesses are investing in their human capital.
Climate targets and sustainability regulations are driving industries, including the fashion industry, to embrace eco-friendly trends and transform their future strategies. Over the next five years, most brands will face the challenge of balancing an increase in apparel consumption with environmental sustainability.
Where should fashion executives prioritize in 2025?
As wildfires now occur more often and burn intensely, they threaten California’s rich biodiversity and turn wildlife habitats into barren landscapes. Conservation efforts and environmental protection strategies need to understand how these changes affect wildlife populations, ecosystem stability, and long-term biodiversity.
