The challenge Rising energy, water and raw material costs are putting more and more pressures on companies to reduce their environmental footprint. ÖKOPROFIT® helps to address these ...

The challengeBusinesses have a huge potential to enhance their environmental performance but there is a need for coordinated programmes supporting the transition from old processes to the new improved...

The challenge:Global water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century[i]. As a result, more and more regions are experiencing water scarcity. In and ...

The challenge:Water security is an ongoing issue in South Africa, highlighted by the critical situation in Cape Town where the city came within days of running out of drinking water in 2018. One of ...

The challenge:The number of trees on the planet has nearly halved since the dawn of human civilization. Today deforestation continues at the rate of around 15 billion trees per year. This is despite ...

The challenge:Innovation occurs in all corners of society, but inventions conceived in remote or rural areas, especially in developing countries, are far less likely to be commercialised and made ...