Featured insights
Featured insights
| February 17, 2025
Why is preserving biodiversity a strategic imperative for investors?
As investors increasingly prioritise sustainability, biodiversity—key to long-term resilience—is often overlooked. Robert Nussey and Dr. Andrea Bueno share insights on why biodiversity matters, how private equity investors can integrate it, and why acting now is essential for long-term value creation.
| February 16, 2025
What does the new EU packaging regulation mean for your business?
The new EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) marks a significant step towards a circular economy by targeting the reduction of packaging waste and promoting sustainable packaging solutions.
| February 13, 2025
Battling plastic waste: Why advanced sorting is key to EU’s transition to a circular economy
The European Union (EU) has set strict recycling targets for plastic waste to speed up the transition to a circular economy. In this article, our experts explain why advanced sorting is key to reaching EU’s targets.
| February 11, 2025
Harmonising the EU sustainability regulations: how to retain value in the Omnibus package
Ramboll’s corporate sustainability experts Karin Simondon and Tara Thorsen explain potential benefits and risks of the upcoming EU Omnibus regulation.
| February 2, 2025
Clearing the Air on A4 Emissions: A Guide for Timber Construction
When assessing the carbon footprint of building projects, emissions from transporting materials from factories to construction sites are often overlooked as they are perceived to be relatively insignificant. Module A4 in a lifecycle assessment measures these shipping emissions and for materials with low production emissions, transport can represent a substantial share of upfront carbon — especially for cross-laminated timber (CLT) that often travels long distances
| January 5, 2025
Exploring hydrogen’s potential to decarbonise steel from blast furnaces
71% of steel is currently manufactured using blast furnaces. However, applying hydrogen injection in blast furnaces to decarbonise steel production has not been fully explored. New research looks into the feasibility of this approach to lowering steel emissions.
| December 18, 2024
Kickstarting Oslo’s regenerative journey
With many future focused and sustainability savvy clients in Norway, the time seemed right to unite and inspire collective action to secure a more regenerative future for Oslo.
| December 15, 2024
3 new insights on the future of steel certifications
New regulations mean that obtaining environmental product certifications for steel will be become more complex and require changes in production processes. Gain an understanding of the latest developments from three industry experts.
| December 11, 2024
Will lower-emission concrete be the standard within 5 years?
A recent survey explored the market demand and outlook for lower emission concrete and steel. With many respondents ready to buy lower-emission concrete now, we take a look at the key barriers to adopting lower emission concrete and the policies that could help accelerate production and demand.
| December 8, 2024
How to halve the carbon footprint of new builds
Concrete production is responsible for 7% of global emissions and is the most widely used construction material in the world. A new study by the Danish concrete association, Dansk Beton, has concluded that too much concrete is used in buildings and smarter design methods combined with lower emission types of concrete can almost halve a new building’s carbon footprint and significantly reduce material consumption.
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