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Materiality Assessments as Part of your Sustainability Journey

Embarking on a sustainability journey can be confusing. To separate the wheat from the chaff, one of the first things you’ll want to conduct is a materiality assessment. Materiality is a concept borrowed from financial accounting relating to the disclosure (and sometimes the omission to disclose) of information that is consequential to the value of […]

Increased Funding Expected for Circular Economy Initiatives in 2022

A successor to the 2021 Circular Economy Innovations Grants Scheme (CEIGS) is expected to be announced in April 2022 with significantly increased funding to be available. The purpose of the CEIGS is to provide support to projects which work in the Circular Economy space with the aim of both advancing the Circular Economy in Ireland […]

Sustainable Transition and Managing Change

Figure 1: A failure to consult with internal stakeholders drives resistance While surveys vary, change projects generally return a 70-80% failure rate. Change managers and those responsible for leading change tend to tell the same old stories….if only managers were better leaders, and if only staff were not so resistant to change. If you cannot […]

Management Principles and Sustainability

Management System Standards and strategies may be successfully applied to sustainability. The concepts and processes involved provide a logical, strategic, and improvement-focused approach to sustainability. There are standards that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These include ISO 20400, Sustainable procurement – Guidance,  ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety, ISO 14001 Environmental Management, ISO 22000 […]

Sustainable Finance & Understanding How to Get There

Source: https://www.ifrs.org/use-around-the-world/use-of-ifrs-standards-by-jurisdiction/view Adapted. Image: For demonstration purposes only. The convergence of Sustainability and Financial Reporting.i In ‘Who Controls the Rules Wins’ii, finance contributor George O’Dwyer, sets out why climate and financial reporting were moving toward alignment. Highlighted impacts on; share prices, investment returns, availability of finance and singled out a resource every stakeholder attributed value […]

Famine, War, and Pestilence – Interpretation of our Future as per Chatham House’s Report Entitled ‘Climate Change Risk Assessment 2021’

Here’s my interpretation of our future according to Chatham House’s report entitled Climate change risk assessment 2021. Chatham House, (yes, they do more than set rules for disclosure at meetings), published the report in September with its headline findings that: The world is dangerously off-track to meet the Paris Agreement goals The risks are compounding, […]

Circular Economy Leaders Programme

Antaris are delighted to announce that we will be developing and delivering a new Circular Economy Leaders programme.  The new Circular Economy Leaders programme will focus on addressing the needs of medium-sized firms to develop an overall action plan for the management of Circular Economy related issues within their company. This programme is being run […]

Climate Action- The Race to Move from Targets to Actions Starts Now

Implications for Logistics and Commuting In a massive step towards positive climate action in Ireland, President Higgins has signed the climate action Bill into Law. The process for setting sectoral targets starts now. The magnitude of the cuts required are absolutely huge, and as the recent succession of wildfires, heatwaves, and catastrophic flooding has shown […]

Antaris Consulting has committed to reducing our absolute scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2030 (from a 2018 base year), and to measuring and reducing our scope 3 emissions. Antaris Consulting has had its emissions reduction targets from company operations (scopes 1 and 2) approved by the Science Based Targets initiative […]

Sustainable Living: Consumer Choices

More than 50% of the energy-related emissions reductions needed to get to net-zero will come from consumer choices. The UN has published details on 10 specific actions we can all take to reduce our impact on the environment and on energy use in particular. See https://www.un.org/ActNow While we don’t buy a new car every day […]

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