Capitalactiv is a management consultancy specialising in sustainability. We help you get a handle on carbon and natural capital. Within your operations and investments, and across your products and services.
"By 2009 we were extracting 68 billion tonnes of resources, compared to around 7 billion tonnes in 1900. Under current trends of population growth and expanding middles classes, global extraction of resources is set to reach 140 billion tonnes by 2050. This will probably exceed the availability and accessibility of resources, as well as the carrying capacity of the planet to absorb the impacts of their extraction and use."
The international GHG Protocol has just put some real oomph into corporate purchases of renewable electricity. It was four years in the making and will have a big impact on how companies report their indirect emissions from electricity use. The guidance should also support more distributed and innovative electricity supply markets.
There are more effective measures of business resilience, value and efficiency, than financial capital alone.
There is a growing drive to incorporate other forms of capital, including natural, social and intellectual, into mainstream corporate reporting. The interactions between these capitals, and flows to and from, are not visible in most accounting systems despite being drawn on to generate business value.
Thoughts from the recent ICAEW conference.
The major driver of global deforestation comes from customer and product demand for commodities and ingredients including timber/paper/pulp, palm oil, beef, and soy, which is used mostly in animal feed. Companies can reduce impacts by managing their supply chains more effectively.
