A couple of weeks ago, on the 27th of October 2022, the United Nations Environment Programme published their latest Emissions Gap Report, just ahead of the COP27 summit in Egypt that kicked off today. We saw a very short-lived, but unprecedented, reduction in global emissions as a response from the COVID-19 pandemic – does this mean that there is a way in which we are able to adapt and mitigate, whilst still living our day to day lives? The Report The report starts off by setting the global scene, laying out the targets set and whether they [...]

July 2022 was a whirlwind for both politics and the environment, as the third Conservative Prime Minister stepped down, and the UK was hit by an extreme weather event that has seen record-breaking temperatures. The Physical or Financial Climate? Boris Johnson’s announcement of his resignation on the 7th of July meant the bid for leadership began. His resignation comes at a time as the UK is experiencing an extreme weather event and a Cost of Living crisis, with current inflation rates sat at around 9.4% and the Bank of England predicting a recession by the end of [...]

What do we do? To oversimplify it: We help clients become sustainable and help keep companies compliant. How do we do it? From helping small businesses to identify their sustainability goals and credentials, all the way to helping big companies collect, track, manage and report their sustainability data. We can help with a plethora of sustainability services, but our bread and butter really is data! Though almost every business has the ambition to become sustainable, you cant make any significant change until you understand your EHS data. Only then can you implement steps to reducing your planetary impacts. [...]

We have 6 years left to halt climate change and stop a rise in 1.5 degrees as per the Paris Agreement. This shouldn’t be news. What is news though, is President Biden’s latest plans to curb climate change, or at least, the effects of climate change on Americans. While other countries are pioneering change, America still refuses to declare a climate emergency. Instead, it is pumping more money into combatting the side-effects of climate change. Last week, the president of the 2nd most polluting country in the world announced a $2.4billion pledge to help build infrastructure that is more [...]

With 2022 set to see significant ESG (Environmental Social Governance) investment across industries, ESG maturity is entering a more sophisticated stage. Numerous short and long term social factors are imperative to a company’s sustainability performance. From labour strikes, customer boycotts to geopolitical risks or health & safety issues in the supply chain. As long as you have employees, serve customers and operate in a regulated environment – social considerations will impact every business across all sectors. This post will define what is meant by social performance, simplify the practicalities of integrating the ‘S’ in ESG including how to select social [...]

As for many of us, our Christmas will look rather different this year - but there's nothing to stop us getting in the festive spirit and better yet, in a sustainable way! Globally, Christmas has now turned into a mass of consumerism and waste! Today, more than 2 billion people in 160 countries celebrate Christmas. In the UK, over the festive period there is a calculated rise of more than 30% in waste. That’s over 300,000 tonnes of Christmas cards, 6 million Christmas trees and 75 million Mince Pies thrown away every year in the UK alone. But! There are [...]

The Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan to “make our nation cleaner, greener and more beautiful” made its debut late last Tuesday night (17th November 2020). The announcement comes at a crucial time in the lead up to the COP26 Summit that will be held in Glasgow in 2021. The plan is set out to eradicate the UK’s contribution to climate change by 2050 and clearly alludes to the UK’s ambition of being “a world-leader in an array of clean technologies”. The Ten Point Plan will mobilise £12bn of government investment to create and support up to 250,000 green jobs. It aims [...]

Almost all global crises have one thing in common; the poorest and the most vulnerable in our world will be the hardest hit. Be it recession, climate disasters, or the current COVID-19 pandemic, global crises disproportionately impact the lives of the poor and marginalized, sustaining and reinforcing global inequality. For the poorest in the world facing a crisis there is a threefold impact: Their disproportionate exposure to the direct impact Their susceptibility to damage caused by the crisis Their lack of resource to cope and recover from the damage suffered The devastating economic fallout of the current COVID-19 pandemic is [...]

We live in an inherently visual world, where images speak ten times louder than words. Data visualisation or story telling is the visual representation of information and data using different graphical elements.

Data has hugely impacted our business perspectives over the last few years. Instead of a few spreadsheets to manage our environmental impact we are now looking at complex systems in order to simplify data.

During October, we utilised our social media channels to highlight some of the key impacts of our sustainability initiatives. Although it’s easy to dismiss the impact of small businesses, we recognise the importance of monitoring, reporting and trying to reduce ours here at SustainIt.