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  U.S. companies that conduct significant business in Europe are in for the strategic and compliance challenge of a lifetime. Accustomed to doing their best to provide sustainability information to investors via voluntary reporting frameworks, they must now prepare to adopt a rigorous sustainability reporting regime and wrap their collective minds around a new concept:…

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas traveled this week to Las Vegas to review U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations for Super Bowl LVIII with state and local law enforcement and the National Football League (NFL). Secretary Mayorkas For the past 18 months, DHS employees worked with local officials to assess potential risks and…

Aligning their sourcing practices with the European Union’s new Regulation on Deforestation-free products (also known as EUDR) is top of mind for companies importing and selling cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy or wood into the European market. Despite much discussion about the regulation, misunderstandings linger. In a recent Innovation Forum webinar, Emanuele Pitto,…

A warning is being issued to those responsible for overseeing personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety product procurement by the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) after latest tests on non-member products highlight the widespread availability of substandard and even dangerous items. Between December 2022 and December 2023, the BSIF examined 123 non-member products, assessing advertised…

Nat Bullard, the long-time climate writer, consultant and expert who serves on the advisory board for the energy think tank Ember, published his annual decarbonization deck last week, comprising 200 charts illustrating the state of climate tech. The chart above caught my eye. Although the title sounds hopeful enough, a closer look at the data…

Creating a space for holistic health, or the community, means going beyond the basics of healthcare facility design. Healthcare facilities, as the name suggests, are places for healing and recovery from all types of ailments. However, sometimes it is just limited to a specific ailment being treated and that alone. Enter holistic healing, an approach…