The EED energy audit has been adopted by the European Parliament with the aim of reducing European energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020. Large companies, which are companies with more than 250 employees or an annual turnover of 50 million euros or more and a balance sheet total of…
The assessment was conducted by Arup for the Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA), to investigate the potential of the tool in the Australian market. SKAO has been involved in this research by sharing knowledge with NAGA. The study was applied to four local governments in Melbourne and found that…
More and more organizations are seeing the relevance of corporate social responsibility. The growing urgency of climate change plays an important role in fueling this shift of priorities. Organizations are looking for solutions to not only implement sustainability in their own management, but also in their supply chain. After all,…
1. What was the most important factor for this milestone to be achieved? “The fact that more commissioning parties are now implementing the CO₂ Performance Ladder in the tender processes. As a result of an extensive research, we found out that there were seventy-five commissioning parties that made use…
The initiator of the feasibility study is David Meiklejohn, executive officer of Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA). Last year he attended a workshop where SKAO spoke about how the CO₂ Performance Ladder is used to stimulate climate action through the power of procurement. He contacted SKAO to learn…
As part of its mission to become an environmentally friendly local government, the council approached SKAO in 2014. Renkum had already gained some experience with the CO₂ Performance Ladder in putting contracts out to tender. The time was right to get its own certificate. “When you are asking companies to…
Her people simply have to be mobile. They work IT projects for customers during a limited time frame, which can be six months to two years. “That’s what we do”, Annelies Hermens says. “That’s how we at Capgemini make our money. I can’t just tell those people they are not…
“Weve been making real headway. 2500 companies are participating, with 750 certificates, and those numbers are growing steadily.” The ladder demonstrably saves on emissions by some 10 percent over a three-year period, not to mention the enormous boost it has caused in the construction industry with the use of green…
What is green energy according to the CO₂ Performance Ladder? Green energy refers to wind, hydro or biomass- generated electricity. The ladder emphasises two aspects regarding green energy: additionality and demonstrability with Guarantees of Origin Additionality The ladder expects the procurement of green energy to actually lead to…
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