Resources for a Better Understanding of Sustainability

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Going Zero-Plastic for a Week: Lessons in Conscious Consumption

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In early December of 2018, the Royal Statistical Society announced their international statistic of the year: 90.5%. This number stood for the portion of plastic waste that has never been recycled, totaling roughly 6,300 million metric tons. While a part of that staggering number comes from industrial and commercial development, the vast majority is from small, everyday single-use plastic that can easily be avoided. From shopping bags to water bottles, plastic has become ingrained in our daily lives.

Making Smarter, More Resilient Cities

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In August 2018, FirstCarbon Solutions (FCS), an ADEC Innovation, helped sponsor the Sister Cities International (SCI) Annual Conference held in Aurora, Colorado. Since 1956, SCI has fostered global relationships between communities around the world based on the exchange of culture, education, information, and trade. SCI’s 62nd Annual Conference celebrated “Cities Leading the Way”, fostering discussion around how the Sister Cities initiative can help modernize local communities.

BROCHURES

Learn more about how ADEC Innovations can drive bottom-line value for your organization by lowering costs, optimizing resource use and driving operational efficiencies. Once you've finished with the brochures, you can also read some of our clients' case studies.

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WHITE PAPERS

ADEC Innovations produces white papers about various industry issues and regulatory updates.
Below are our latest papers, which you can download in a PDF format.

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Utility Energy Data Management

Learn how to reduce your energy consumption, gain control of your energy spending and increase productivity and profitability.

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4 Steps to Improving Your CDP Performance

Learn the top reasons organizations lose points, and how you can improve your own CDP performance. Gain insight into developing long-term strategies towards sustainability and profitability.

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Mastering 'Big Data' In Environmental Sustainability

Get insights and guidance to wade through the big data challenge. The white paper explores the key components for successfully managing environmental sustainability data, from defining and narrowing the universe of data for your company to the tools to help manage and apply those data.

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Alphabet Soup: Selecting and Using Sustainability Reporting Frameworks

Companies must now wade through acronyms and initials of sustainable organizations and their respective disclosure shcemes in order to obtain a stronger grasp of their sustainability performance.

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Carbon Accounting Methods for Estimating Scope 3 Emissions

Understanding a company's GHG emissions is the first step for an effective corporate climate change strategy.

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Your Road to Leadership

Disclosing that your sustainability efforts are an integral part of your core business strategy will improve your performance.

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Why disclose to CDP?

By encouraging a system of sustainability disclosure and transparency among companies and cities, CDP enables organizations to benchmark, measure and manage their environmental risks, while at the same time improving their brand reputation, increasing operational efficiency and lowering their costs.

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Water and Corporate Responsibility: What Can Companies Do?

As the world embraces the importance of environmental sustainability, organizations must place a greater emphasis on addressing the global water crisis, and minimizing impact to themselves and the planet.

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Effectiveness of Local Agency Sustainability Plans

A successful sustainability plan allows you to identify and implement goals, milestones and metrics to measure success and address environmental concerns, economic conditions and social equity within your community.

WEBINARS

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ADEC Innovations hosts webinars on various topics, and participates as industry experts in online sessions and podcasts hosted by other organizations.

See below for links to our previous sessions.

How to Maintain Momentum from Your CDP Submission

Now that 2018’s CDP disclosure submissions are complete, it may be tempting to sit back and wait for your results—but now is the best time to strike while the iron is hot, and begin building on what you have learned.

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CDP's 2018 Climate Change Questionnaire Updates Webinar

The CDP Climate Change Questionnaire is updated each year in response to developments in the business landscape and emissions accounting practices.

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4 Steps to Improving Your CDP Performance

After scoring 20,000+ CDP responses since 2011, ADEC Innovations is an expert in the CDP Scoring Methodology and building streamlined corporate sustainability systems. In this 35-minute webinar, we provide information and tools to help you improve your CDP Performance.

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SCIENCE BASED TARGETS WEBINAR

The Science Based Target (SBT) initiative is a partnership between CDP, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and World Resources Institute (WRI) which helps organizations determine how much they must cut emissions to prevent the worst impacts of climate change.

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Climate Change Scoring Webinar

As CDP’s Global Scoring and Sustainability Outsourcing Partner since 2011, ADEC co-hosted this webinar, where Supply Chain members will learn: handy hints for suppliers, key areas of focus to maximize your score, and where to get help with your CDP Climate Change disclosure.

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FEATURED WEBINAR

How to Maintain Momentum from
Your CDP Submission

Now that 2018’s CDP disclosure submissions are complete, it may be tempting to sit back and wait for your results—but now is the best time to strike while the iron is hot, and begin building on what you have learned. Now that you are armed with the data to create the targets and KPIs you need to meet its sustainability goals, why let that momentum go to waste?

Watch our pre-recorded webinar, and let ADEC Innovations' consultants teach you to how maintain your 2018 CDP momentum to develop sustainability initiatives into 2019 and beyond. Our CDP specialists will guide you through ways that you can develop goals, improve processes and performance, and implement sustainability initiatives that build on current data.

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