CIBSE introduces mandatory CPD on building safety and sustainability

CIBSE introduces mandatory CPD on building safety and sustainability

The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has introduced mandatory CPD topics for its members. From January 2024, in addition to their existing CPD requirements, members must undertake and reflect on at least two CPD activities, one on sustainability and one on building safety. This change is to ensure CIBSE members stay up to…

The Advantages of Access Control Technology Over Traditional Formats

The Advantages of Access Control Technology Over Traditional Formats

Access control manufacturers discuss the technology’s potential benefits. Traditional security measures such as keys and passes can be fraught with potential issues such as losing them, copying or fraud. Access control technology has some advantages over these traditional formats. In this manufacturer roundtable, Healthcare Facilities Today speaks with access control manufacturers about those advantages. What…

Companies are broadening their commitments to nature beyond carbon

Companies are broadening their commitments to nature beyond carbon

Global companies are paying more attention to nature and natural capital, with increasing numbers making commitments to take action or setting specific targets across a number of dimensions, including water, biodiversity, and chemicals and plastics. Carbon remains the primary focus of commitments, with about four in five companies in the Fortune Global 500 setting carbon-reduction…

Investors should look to the Global South to scale climate solutions

  Much has been made of whether and how the stock market can meaningfully support climate action. Because most  transactions occur in the secondary market, trading shares of listed companies appears rather removed from the “real” economy, where tangible decarbonization takes place. While greenhouse gas emissions reduction is more traceable with a venture capital (VC)…