This paper justifies a need for carbon pricing through the academic social and environmental accounting perspective. An analytical approach is taken whereby current developments in carbon pricing are linked to the academic literature on social and environmental accounting. A need for carbon...

New legislation, rising energy costs and increasing demand for green credentials have moved sustainable IT up the business agenda. This ebook looks at different aspects of green IT - from sustainably managing IT assets, ethically recycling hardware or using IT to reduce carbon footprint - and...

Climate change information, especially greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosures (Scopes 1, 2 and 3), has recently attracted considerable interest from investors, companies, regulators, and other stakeholders. This study examines the relationship between voluntary scope 3 GHG emissions...

In contrast to the linear “take-make-dispose” model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy. This model aims to optimize the use of resources and to reduce or eliminate waste, and is based on re-use, repair, ecodesign, industrial ecology,...

Burgeoning ecological crises of food production sector has made the environmental impact evaluation of various food products a sustainability imperative. Specifically, in pursuit of identifying a sustainable production model of high-demand food items, implementing a comparative life cycle...