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New Waste Standard from Carbon Trust to help organisations reduce their waste.  The Carbon Trust today announces plans to launch the world’s first international standard for organisations to certify that they are managing and reducing waste. The announcement coincides with the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Standard, which has helped hundreds of organisations take a more stringent approach to managing and reducing carbon. This experience is now being applied to…

Defra has published this report on behalf of Government to provide an overview of what has been achieved so far in the move towards mainstreaming sustainable development. The report is intended to facilitate scrutiny of Government’s progress to date, and describes how Government continues to move towards fully embedding sustainable development in its policies and operations. It argues that solid foundations have been put in place to enable further improvement in this area… More

New York, June 19, 2013. Spending in the US market on energy, environment and sustainability initiatives by large corporations will grow at just 5% per annum until 2017, according to a new market size and forecast study from independent analyst firm Verdantix. Based on the proprietary Critical Moments® methodology, interviews with 500 energy and sustainability budget-holders and an analysis of more than 1,000 corporate initiatives, the model forecasts the US market will grow from $34.6…