Sustainability

Sustainability

Kärcher

Sustainability, Trends

Scouting start-ups is a continuous process at Kärcher

Cleaning equipment manufacturer Kärcher firmly believes in the power of start-ups to keep innovating. The German multinational even has a department that continuously scans new companies’ offerings and thus also discovered Carbmee’s carbon management tool. …

CO2 efficiency

Sustainability, Trends

CO2 efficiency of Dutch industry worse than European competition

Dutch manufacturers perform worse on CO2 efficiency than their European competitors. Between 2021 and 2023, CO2 emissions per unit of product increased among the 282 manufacturing companies covered by the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU …

legislation

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Legislation forces companies to dive into their supply chains

European legislation such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is forcing companies to work on sustainability. Many efforts focus on mapping Scope 3 emissions. Calculating or …

Magne Setnes

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Magne Setnes, Heineken: “We now do more cross-border shipments to counter disruptions”

Magne Setnes joined Dutch brewery giant Heineken 25 years ago. He just completed a PhD in artificial intelligence, long before most of us had heard of it. His task was to collect and analyze data …

supply chain collaboration

Blogs, Sustainability, Trends

Difficult choices about sustainability

In the past year, the European Union (EU) has adopted various sustainability directives, such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), …

Checklist for Scope 3 for logistics

Checklist, Sustainability, Trends

Checklist for Scope 3 for logistics

Collecting data for Scope 3 reporting is one of the most complex and challenging aspects of CSRD compliance, posing significant difficulties for many companies. Solutions that automate this time-consuming task are increasingly in demand. Managing Scope …

deforestation-free products

Sustainability, Trends

Satellite images combined with data provide hard evidence for deforestation-free products

How can you prove that goods have not been produced on deforested land? Public satellite images do not provide sufficient proof of deforestation-free products, Satelligence believes. For that, those images need to be combined with …

supply chain gaming

Blogs, Sustainability, Trends

CO₂ Subway Map

Measuring one’s own CO₂ emissions seems to be more popular among consumers than among businesses. According to news agency Bloomberg, smartphone apps that track individual CO₂ emissions from purchases are very much on the rise. …

CarbonLeap

Sustainability, Trends

Start-up CarbonLeap pioneers carbon insetting

Companies need to reduce their carbon emissions, but what if these emissions are caused elsewhere in the chain? Now they can still achieve their sustainability goals thanks to carbon insetting. The Dutch company CarbonLeap can …

electric trucks

Sustainability, Trends

Deployment of electric trucks in the Netherlands slows due to delay in zero-emission zones

While the short trip distances in the Netherlands (where 80% of trips are less than 150km) are ideally suited to electric transport, investment in electric trucks is under pressure. The reason for this is the …