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How to think of sustainability when planning and building new ventures?

How to think of sustainability when planning and building new ventures? How to use systems thinking tools to understand the world, and the place of your new venture in it? Why most corporate sustainability initiatives are of marginal impact, and sometimes ...

2023

Measured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel

Thomas Guillaume

The potential of palm-oil biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared with fossil fuels is increasingly questioned. So far, no measurement-based GHG budgets were available, and plantation age was ignored in Life Cycle Analyses (LCA). Here, w ...

2020

Energy renovation of the built heritage housing based on the living building challenge certification. Case study in Bresca (Spain)

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In light of increasing sustainability requirements, one of the challenges related to the heritage building stock consists in finding a balance between preserving the existing architectural character and improving energy efficiency. The project presented in ...

2020

Assessing the sustainability of biofuel production from camelina in Spain, results of the ITAKA project - analysis of GHG emissions

Massimiliano Capezzali, Mélanie Guittet

Purpose With the rapid growth and increased consumption of biofuels worldwide, and the multitude of policy decisions supporting this expansion, growing concerns about the biofuels sustainability have arisen. Therefore, the European project ITAKA, aiming at ...

2018

Benefits and Scepticism of Ecolabels as Accountability Mechanism

Ralf Seifert, Joana Maria Comas Marti

Environmental labelling is an accountability mechanism for firms to satisfy growing demands to prove that value chains are sustainably managed. Although the large variety of ecolabels available today can be interpreted as a sign of their success, it is ove ...

Emerald2012

Corporate Environmental Strategies

Joana Maria Comas Marti

Stakeholders increasingly demand firms to manage their sustainability performance in a comprehensive manner. Companies are expected to surpass regulatory requirements and address sustainability issues in their extended supply chains and along the life cycl ...

EPFL2012

Le mur à haute performance thermique

Thierry Voellinger

The scope of this research includes the development of composite concrete façade elements that are thin, loadbearing and of high thermal performance. The research applies to manufactured precast concrete elements and focuses on improving their structure in ...

EPFL2012

Unilever Sustainable Tea. Part II: Reaching out to Smallholders in Kenya and Argentina

Ralf Seifert

Commodity value chains around the world are increasingly stressed; some even face severe and dire circumstances. This is due to myriad social, environmental and economic challenges linked to the finite nature of natural resources and rapidly growing popula ...

The Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)2011

Sustainable Liquid Biofuels Development for Transport: Frequently Asked Questions and Review of Initiatives

Edgard Gnansounou, Luis Alberto Panichelli, Juan David Villegas Gomez

Increased worldwide concern about the sustainability of large-scale production of liquid biofuels for transport has led certain governments and institutions to start developing sustainability standards in order to assess the environmental and social perfor ...

2008

Estimating Energy and Greenhouse gas balances of biofuels: Concepts and methodologies

Edgard Gnansounou, Arnaud Dauriat, Luis Alberto Panichelli, Juan David Villegas Gomez

The interest in developing biofuels has rapidly increased during the last decades followed by a strong controversy about their sustainability. Diverting a large amount of land from agriculture to fuels, impacting forests and grasslands, loss of biodiversit ...

2008

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