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  Accountants looking to improve their greenhouse gas reporting can turn to a dedicated guide published last week to help them prepare their numbers ahead of incoming mandatory disclose requirements for businesses. Aimed at professional accountants and finance professionals, the new GHG reporting guidance has been developed by the We Mean Business Coalition (WMBC) and…

The UKGBC has published a landmark review of the strategies and processes that asset-owners can use to adapt and enhance their climate resilience. As buildings, infrastructure and physical assets around the world face increasing risk from more frequent and severe climate-based threats, the six-month collaborative project, the Physical Risk Labs, brings together developers and asset-owning…

Almost a quarter of the UK’s largest listed employers have improved their performance on workplace mental health overall in the past year, and almost half now recognise the link between financial wellbeing and the mental health of their employees, according to the second annual CCLA Corporate Mental Health Benchmark – UK 100. he benchmark assesses…

They’re the latest trend sweeping the nation: Building Performance Standards (BPS) or Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS). These pieces of legislation on either the local, state, or national level are the newest and possibly one of the best ways of lowering building energy use, and thus lessening climate change impacts. The Department of Energy website…

One EVS technician with the right disinfectant and the proper amount of time, can prevent more C. auris than a roomful of doctors can cure. How well do you know your enemy? I recently participated in an outstanding webinar presented by Dr. Rodney Rohde, world-renowned microbiologist, regents’ professor and global fellow at Texas State University….

Natural disasters — including hurricanes, wildfires, coastal flooding and severe thunderstorms — have become more frequent and severe in recent decades, and the resilience of institutional and commercial facilities is being tested. Recent severe storms inflicted damage on several skyscrapers in San Francisco, and the city’s building owners and managers now face increased scrutiny and…