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Australian corporations now face a paradigm shift brought on by changing policies to deal with climate change. How prepared are businesses for a carbon-constrained future, a carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme? Will companies thrive, or survive, if carbon pricing emerges?
NCS International is conducting an industry survey into current Australian corporate practices and aspirations concerning environmental sustainability and climate change to better understand business preparedness for emerging changes. You’re invited to participate and share your thoughts in this brief industry survey.
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Sydney Fish Market, the largest wholesale seafood market in the Southern Hemisphere, recently became the first Australian food-sector company to achieve certification of its 2009/2010 Greenhouse emissions report to the International Standard for Corporate Greenhouse Reporting - ISO 14064-1:2006.
This first step was initiated by executive management in 2010 to gain better visibility into the business' baseline carbon footprint before it embarks on planned expansion of the market...
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Australian companies are becoming increasingly aware of climate change impacts and emerging policies on their businesses. Progressive companies are beginning to put their own carbon footprint under the microscope.
Motivation for companies, large and small, to disclose their carbon footprint is quite clear – greater visibility into energy use and the opportunity to reduce energy wastage, improve efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, negotiate more favourable energy contracts and save money.
Having reviewed and audited companies’ greenhouse emissions and energy over the past couple of years, we’ve found the level and rigour of disclosure of carbon footprints is highly variable...
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NCS International has recently joined forces with Good Environmental Choices Australia (GECA) by becoming the first JAS-ANZ accredited certification body able to provide assessment for licensing under the new, streamlined GECA Certification Scheme Rules.
NCSI can now provide independant certification of compliance to the relevant GECA Ecolabelling Standards for your products and services including:
- Assessments of products against relevant GECA Ecolabelling Standards and;
- Conformance assessment and surveillance audits of product environmental declarations and issue letters of conformance against GECA Ecolabelling Standards
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Antarctica is a special place, a vast untouched frozen wilderness. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), part of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, is responsible for supporting scientific research in the area, maintaining Australia's commitment to the Antarctic Treaty Program, and acting as Australia's presence in the region.
NCSI has audited the AAD since 2004. One reason they were chosen for this special responsibility is that they were the only organisation that would commit to sending an auditor to physically observe the Antarctic locations...
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NCSI has partnered with the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute to deliver its foundation course in Corporate Greenhouse Gas accounting.
GHGMI, an international leader in training climate change professionals, and NCS International invite you to attend our 2-day Basics of Organisational GHG Accounting course taking place in Sydney:
July 28-29th, 2011
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NCS International is conducting an industry survey into current Australian corporate practices and aspirations concerning environmental sustainability and climate change to better understand business preparedness for emerging changes.
You’re invited to participate and share your thoughts in this brief industry survey.
Click here to take the survey.
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