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Get real- how the TCFD is helping to price climate risks and opportunities into business decision-making

The Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was established in June 2015 to develop voluntary, consistent climate-related financial risk disclosures for companies, allowing them to provide investors, lenders, insurers, and other stakeholders with the right information to make financial decisions. Ultimately, it aims to drive the sustainability agenda from sustainability teams into boardrooms and finance teams. Read more

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Can you go 'Plastic Free' for a week?

BIP.Verco’s attempt and how coffee nearly broke us!In light of World Environment Day and its particular focus on reducing single use plastic, we set ourselves the challenge to see how far we could go to cut out plastic completely. This is the account of BIP.Verco’s Wiltshire office. Read more

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The trouble with Science Based Targets

Formally-approved Science Based Targets (SBTs) are a scheme of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), a venture of the UN Global Compact, CDP, World Resources Institute and WWF. They have been gaining much attention and some traction amongst corporates and institutional investors; at the time of writing, 105 companies have in place targets formally approved by the SBTi. Read more

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The Carbon Desktop website is now live!

We are excited to announce the launch of our new website for Carbon Desktop! This website is designed to give an overview of BIP.Verco’s energy management software Carbon Desktop and what it can do. The site will also provide hints, tips and news, helping users to get the best from the system. Read more

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ESOS timings: Top tips to avoid the rush

We are now in Phase 2 of ESOS, with a deadline of 5th December 2019. Experience shows that many companies will leave it to the last minute to think about it, turning what should be an opportunity to increase business productivity into a compliance burden. Read more

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Another great XEnergy event: The application of AI to develop ground-breaking new materials and overcoming barriers to energy re

This week, BIP.Verco attended the XEnergy event in London. There was a mind-blowing key note speech by Justin Hall-Tipping, on the application of artificial intelligence and big data, to achieve a step change in the development of new materials: creating a database of thousands of publications on material science. Artificial intelligence is used to draw on this and rapidly identify new molecular combinations. This can be used to produce new materials that address a broad range of technological challenges. Read more

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Design for Performance is reaching out to industry stakeholders

The Design for Performance initiative led by BIP.Verco has featured in a couple of industry engagement events this month. First on 6th March at the annual EcoBuild show at the Excel in London Docklands, there was a seminar entitled Design for Performance - Securing Commercial Buildings. The session was chaired by Sarah Ratcliffe, Programme Director at the BBP, and the panellists were Robert Cohen, Technical Director, BIP.Verco, Abigail Dean, Head of Sustainability at TH Real Estate, Duncan Price, Director - Sustainability, Buro Happold and Andy Stanton, Infrastructure and Sustainability Manager, Transport for London. The seminar underlined the benefits of commercial office buildings which perform as intended: as well as meeting environmental objectives, these buildings can be more attractive to tenants who seek better working environments for their employees. Evidence from Australia shows that these buildings have lower voids, can charge rent premiums and secure higher financial returns for their developers and investors. Read more

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Deep renovations with ALDREN aim to increase the value of commercial buildings across the EU

BIP.Verco is a partner in the ALliance for Deep RENovation (ALDREN) a 30 month Horizon 2020 project which started in November 2017. The purpose of ALDREN is to establish the business case for deep renovation. It is thereby intended to encourage investment and accelerate the movement towards a nearly zero energy non-residential building stock across the EU, as targeted by 2050 to meet Paris Agreement commitments. The project is co-ordinated by the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment (CSTB) in France, with seven expert partners from around Europe. Read more

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Practising what we preach: BIP.Verco CSR update, how did we do in 2017?

BIP.Verco is a mission based organisation and carbon reduction is at the heart of our business. In 2012 we set ourselves the ambitious challenge of significantly enabling 1MtCO2 of annual emissions reductions by the end of 2015 for delivery by 2025. This is the equivalent of 1% of the UK’s required reductions to meet the fourth carbon budget! Read more

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A summary of the Committee on Climate Change's response to the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy

Yesterday, the Committee on Climate Change published their response to the government’s Clean Growth Strategy. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is the independent watchdog on the government’s climate change policy. The CCC is responsible for ensuring that the government sets measures which will deliver on our legally binding commitment to an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Read more