Sentences with phrase «sustainability standards plan»

Coined and promoted by sustainability standards Plan Vivo and Pur Projet, it's a potentially powerful concept that can benefit businesses and the environment.

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In that briefing note, we identify five entry points for sustainability standards to contribute to the development of these approaches and ensure their integrity and complementarity: preferential or risk - based sourcing; land use planning; government and stakeholder mobilization; producer support at scale; and leveraging finance.

«Before food even reaches a consumer, we focus on reducing the amount of food waste being generated during the production processes, through standard operating activities at every stage from planning to post analysis,» says Kathleen Cacciola, Senior Director for Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility.

For their next step, Lyons and his colleagues on the ASTM sustainability committee plan to define key performance indicators (KPIs)-- metrics of success — for manufacturing sustainability that can be fed back into the E3012 - 16 standard to make it even more effective.

Designed for grades 9 through 12, the standards - aligned lesson plans and educator guides provide educators with planning materials to engage students with a first - hand glimpse into modern agriculture using lessons and activities that bring to life critical issues such as sustainability, the new science behind farming, and entrepreneurship.

In addition, they satisfactorily meet criteria for sustainability, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in their planning and operation to consolidate tourism activity as a source of quality employment, investment, training and development to improve the standard of living.

Its parts will be used in other sporting or non-sporting projects, setting a new standard in sustainability and introducing bold new ideas in tournament legacy planning.

Working with professionals at Vision Forestry, Delaware Wild Lands has developed a management and restoration plan that meets all the tests of sustainability and biodiversity protection that the SFI standards demand, while meeting their conservation - driven objectives.

Global Green USA works in partnership with public agencies, communities, design innovators, and other nonprofits to create innovative and replicable policies, programs and procedures that make sustainability the standard during the planning, design, construction and operation of a built environment.

It's an EU initiative in which member towns agree to implement environmental accounting and sustainability plans as part of standard government budget operations.

Builders and developers have earned much praise in the past 10 years for transforming the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) recognition program into an industry standard, but the commercial real estate experts in charge of the next step — how the sustainability plans get carried out — have been ignored until now.