Archive for the ‘Policy’ Category
Monday, January 10th, 2011
2010 has been a very exciting year at Verteego. For at least 10 reasons:
1. we’ve launched REACHGarden.com, co-developed with world leading aircraft landing gears manufacturer Messier-Dowty (a SAFRAN company) and fashion apparel manufacturer René Derhy, a fully fledged hazardous chemicals in general, and REACH candidate list in particular traceability platform ...
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Verteego is proud to unveil REACH Garden, the online REACH compliance platform for European manufacturers & retailers.
REACH Garden enables manufacturers to track Europe's "Candidate List" of ever evoling substances of very high concern (SVHC). Under Europe's new chemical law REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of CHemicals), manufacturers are ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Environment regulation was for a long time not deemed a top priority for governments. There was this crazy - though widespread- belief that we could do anything with our planet and it would always provide us with all the resources we needed and stay pristine and shiny like we had ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
At first glance, it seems that the answer is a plain yes : every actor of the manufacturing industry, every importer has to deal with hundreds, even thousands of suppliers and sub-contractors from all over the world on a daily basis.
The latter, understandably reluctant to communicate too much information to ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Jean Louis Borloo, Chris Huhne and Norbert Röttgen, respectively the French, the British and the German minister in charge with the environment have agreed on the necessity to set more ambitious GHG-emission reduction targets. Here is a brief summary of their case.
This crisis and the economic turmoil downturn that the ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
I know this is going to sound nerdy, but hey, I don't care : I am a huge fan of Tolkien's novels and I was thrilled to hear they were about to start shooting a pair of epic fantasy movies based on “The Hobbit”. To be even more accurate, these ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
The concerns brought about by phenomena such as global warming and depletion of natural resources are starting to be genuinely taken into account by governments. This results in the adoption of various regulations and so called green legislations aiming at achieving GHG emissions cuts. Recently, public pressure has prompted more ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Here's an interview of Keenan Hahn, Chief of North American Operations at Verteego Carbon, a carbon accounting and management enterprise software solution, on French web TV decideurstv.com.
According to Keenan Hahn from Verteego Carbon, the inventory, measurement, management, analysis, reduction and reporting of green house gas (GHG) emissions is an increasingly ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Mary Jo Padgett met through a brillant American-living-in-Paris good friend of ours, Nicholas Chriss, something like 12 months ago. Mary Jo definitely knows what it takes to help people and businesses go green. You'll find why and how in this interview:
Gérants verts par DECIDEURS TV
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
American International Group, already the recipient of over $170 billion from the US government, has come under fire in recent days for paying out $165 million in bonuses. Without government intervention AIG would have failed, and now the taxpayer money that is supposed to be used to save it, is ...
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