Good Business

More and more companies these days are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and introduce more eco-friendly business practices. But it's not always easy to figure out just how to make a company greener. That's why the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released a new guide that helps businesses become green-friendly by better understanding the value of important ecosystem services they use, like water and crops.

The Guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation, or CEV, helps companies weigh risks and opportunities and then make decisions based on how the ecosystem services around them will be impacted. It explains the level of ecosystem degradation, for example, that comes from problems like a lack of water and CO2 emissions. So far, fourteen companies have used CEV to reevaluate their own business practices, including Eni and Rio Tinto.

Do you work for a company that takes environmental factors into consideration? Or know one?