Links to fresh green guidance

Net-zero pledges and other sustainability efforts have multiplied in different professions and nations, and produced guidance that shares many common suggestions, but also expresses many key differences. Here’s an updated list of the most notable organizations and links to them:

 

• American Chemical Society's "12 principles of green engineering"
• AIChE's Institute for Sustainability
• Carbon Disclosure Project and Leadership Index
• The Carbon Trust
• EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings
• Environmental Defense Fund’s “Pathways to net-zero: a guide for business”
• Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) “E3 sustainability tools”
• European Union's “Sustainability guide”
• Federal Trade Commission’s “Green guides for using environmental marketing claims"
• Grainger's green resources
• Interreg Baltic Sea Region's EcoDesign Circle
• Investopedia's Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria
• ISO’s “Embracing net-zero” and “Net-zero guidelines”
• National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) energy webpage
• NIST’s Manufacturing Extension Partnerships
• Office of the Chief Sustainability Officer/Council on Environmental Quality
• UL's “Sustainability and environment solutions”
• U.N.'s Climate Change Conference U.K. 2021
• U.N.’s Net-Zero Coalition
• U.N.'s 17 sustainable development goals
• University of Oxford’s “Net-zero principles”
• World Economic Forum’s “Industrial sector turning net-zero goals into practice”