Renewable Energy Credits vs Carbon Offsets: Differences and Why They Matter
Renewable energy credits (RECs) and carbon offsets are key components of many corporate sustainability plans, yet they represent different types of environmental impact. Understanding how they work – and when to use them – is essential for making credible renewable energy and emissions-related claims. This article breaks down the fundamentals and explains how these tools fit into modern climate strategies.
Exploring Emissions Cap Programs: Washington’s Cap-and-Invest
With Washington’s cap-and-invest program now in full swing, we’re discussing goals, timelines, and how it may impact your organization.
Exploring Emissions Cap Programs: California’s Cap-and-Trade
We’re kicking off this series on emissions cap programs with California’s cap-and-trade program, which started in 2012.
The Importance of Internal Controls for ESG Data and Reporting
How can you improve the accuracy and reliability of your ESG data, build trust, and manage risk? Establishing internal controls for your ESG data could be the answer in the face of a constantly evolving ESG regulatory space.
Back to Basics: The Essentials of GHG Inventories
With stricter ESG reporting regulations rising in popularity around the world, understanding your greenhouse gas data is more important today than it has ever been before. In this article, we review the essentials of GHG inventories and what you should consider before getting started.
Measuring Social Impact: Challenges and Best Practices
From diversity and inclusion to labor practices and workplace safety, an organization’s impact on the “S” in ESG can be difficult to measure and track. We address some of the challenges that quantifying social impact presents and provide some solutions for organizations that are looking to make it a priority.
Understanding Your Scope 3 Inventory: Examining Relevancy
What steps should you take to begin your scope 3 GHG emissions inventory? Below, we explore a few of the reviews and analyses you’ll need to get started.
KPI Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities in Decarbonization
Greenhouse gas (GHG) data tracking for decarbonization can pose many challenges. Can we turn those challenges into opportunities?
How to Account for Remote Work in Your GHG Inventory
With working from home now a part of everyday life for many companies and their employees, it’s important to account for emissions from remote work in your GHG inventory.
Seasons of ESG: Navigating Sustainability Initiatives
Demands on ESG programs are at an all-time high. Here, we break down several key areas within ESG to help you visualize a yearly timeline and tackle your initiatives effectively.
2022 in Review: Growth in Sustainability
The ESG space took major strides in 2022—and ADEC ESG Solutions followed suit.
4 Answers to Your Sustainability and ESG FAQs
Find answers to your sustainability and ESG questions in our FAQ round-up.
7 Reasons You Should Conduct A Materiality Analysis
Companies are increasingly seeing the importance of developing a sustainability strategy to maximize long-term value creation and mitigate against increasing climate-related risks.
Better Data Management for Smarter Decision Making
Decision making is driven by data. Quality data gives a company the knowledge required to make smart decisions and to back up those decisions with meaningful supporting evidence.
The Importance of Machine Learning and Building a Data Set in Business
Machine learning can significantly contribute to business’ efficiency. It can help identify which products and services sell well during defined periods, allowing companies to adjust their sales operations accordingly to improve their bottom line. Machine learning can also detect which parts of a business process are taking up too much time and resources, enabling companies to make improvements before profits are undermined.
When Your Brand is on the Line, Supply Chain Data is Vital | Part 2
We examine some best practices for managing your brand’s supply chain data.
When Your Brand is on the Line, Supply Chain Data is Vital | Part 1
When your brand is on the line, gain visibility into and control over your supply chain data.
MetricsTrac: For Timely and Accurate Sustainability Reports
Creating a sustainability report can be a time-intensive process. It involves collecting, evaluating and interpreting large amounts of data. Many companies usually have to source and put together sustainability data from different facilities, locations and teams. And some companies do not have the tools to manage and report their sustainability data. These situations can compromise the timeliness and quality of a sustainability report, which in turn can negatively affect a company’s reputation among stakeholders. For this reason, a sustainability metrics tracking application like MetricsTrac is essential when it comes to maximizing the usefulness of your data and coming up with a timely and accurate sustainability report.
Benchmarking Climate Change Performance Across Supply Chains
Supply chains are businesses’ lifeblood—they are the means through which products and services are created and delivered to the customer. Supply chains are where one can see how raw materials travel and transform into goods. They also reflect companies’ value chains, indicating cash outflow from costs of raw materials and resources along with profits from customers’ purchase of their products.
Defining a Dynamic Data Center for Sustainability Strategies
Continued growth is expected in the emerging DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) market, which may reach about $1 billion in 2016.
Strong Data Management and Energy Management Systems
More and more extreme weather conditions have raised fears for coming climate change impacts around the globe.
FCS Opens New Office in LA
After 30 years of unparalleled environmental planning services, FirstCarbon Solutions (FCS), a leader in global sustainability solutions, is formally re-entering the LA market with the opening of its new office in West Los Angeles, located at 11755 Wilshire Blvd., in Suite 1660.
FCS Expands Services to San Jose Area
With our newly opened San Jose office, we are able to offer our clients expanded client services and technical expertise.
Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions – 5 Tips to Speed Things Up!
Recently, a company posted on 2degrees Network’s forums, in search of a more efficient approach to GHG data collection. The said company had successfully implemented a carbon reporting program internally, but was struggling with collecting utility consumption data manually.
FirstCarbon Solutions and CDP Expand Partnership
A partnership: Working together since 2011, FirstCarbon Solutions (FCS) and CDP have expanded their already strong partnership. As organizations that share a common mission and recognition that sustainability matters, FCS and CDP are focused on helping companies advance their business practices not only to improve the environment, but also to strengthen an organization’s bottom line. […]