Sustainability Series | Identify Measures for Sustainability Enhancements

January 27th, 2012, No Comments

By: Tiffany Richmond
Now that you’ve outlined a policy, analyzed your data and defined goals and targets, it’s now time to identify the measures that you will incorporate into your sustainability program, and implement them.
There is an extensive universe of possible measures in the areas of economical, environmental and social sustainability. For the purposes of this [...]

Sustainability Series | Defining Goals and Targets

January 6th, 2012, No Comments

By: Tiffany Richmond
With policy development and analysis of environmental performance data complete, it’s now time to clearly outline goals and targets of the sustainability program.
To be consistent in terminology, this article defines goals and targets in the following manner:

Goals are high level statements that provide overall context for what the program is trying to achieve. [...]

Sustainability Series | Policy Development and Best Practices

December 5th, 2011, No Comments

By: Tiffany Richmond
Do you know what’s impacting your company’s energy and environmental use? Do you have a reporting regime in place today? Does your company have a policy statement? Do you know how your organization compares to competitors? The industry? Do you know what best practices to follow?
Questions like these are the type of questions [...]

Sustainability Series | Developing a Sustainability Program

November 24th, 2011, No Comments

By: Tiffany Richmond
The word sustainability is often used, but what does sustainability really mean? Is it a motto, an ideal, a way to do business, a way to live life or a call to action?
The Natural Step defines sustainability as:
In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing;

Concentrations of substances extracted from the [...]

CFOs Taking Strategic Leadership Role in Carbon Management Programs

September 14th, 2010, No Comments

54% of public companies are not familiar with regulations related to carbon emissions.
Energy Advantage and Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation just released its research study on carbon management. Below is the media release and a link to download a copy of the study.
Toronto, Ontario, September-14-2010 – Faced with increased regulatory reporting, companies are making investments in [...]

Water Scarcity | How to Conserve Water

May 18th, 2010, 2 Comments

By: Shane Pepin
From an economic and environmental perspective, over the past several years, energy resource issues appear to dominate the media landscape and public consciousness. Whether the topic is climate change, new technologies, or the price of fossil fuels, such as natural gas and oil, the general themes that come about are the availability of primary energy [...]

Consider Provincial Differences to Maximize the Benefits of Your Energy Strategy

May 13th, 2010, No Comments

By: Don McLean
Individual provinces have differing regulatory regimens, market conditions, incentive programs, energy related greenhouse gas factors and GST/HST cost structures. For companies operating facilities across Canada, provincial differences should be considered when developing a corporate energy strategy.
To begin, a fundamental analysis of your company’s corporate energy spend should be completed. This is a simple table [...]

A New Approach to Carbon Management: Cap and Dividend

March 24th, 2010, No Comments

By: Shane Pepin
Over the past few years there has been a tumultuous relationship between science, politics, and economics when it comes to climate change. The on-again, off-again relationship is difficult to predict at best and dysfunctional at worst. For example, the recent developments concerning one proposed solution to mitigating climate change in North America, [...]

Highlights from Executive Research Forum: Holistic Carbon Management

February 2nd, 2010, No Comments

Holistic Carbon Management: Critical Issues for Strategic Finance
Canadian Financial Executive Research Foundation (CFERF) and Energy Advantage have partnered on a research study to examine the strategic issues faced by Canadian organizations emerging from the various North American carbon management regulatory activities underway today. This study is based on gaining feedback from Chief Financial Officers [...]

Creating an Energy Awareness Program

January 21st, 2010, 2 Comments

By: Peter Rowles
The greatest untapped resource that an organization has at its disposal is its own employees. Andrew Carnegie, the great industrialist and philanthropist once said, “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision…It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Increasing energy awareness of employees and motivating them [...]