SDG 13 - CLIMATE ACTION

TAKE URGENT ACTION TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS

Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent, and mitigating climate change and its impacts will require global commitment, enormous resources and innovative ideas and processes. Danish consulting engineers contribute to the fight against climate change when working with national and local governments to adapt to and mitigate the significant impacts of climate change, including changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and extreme weather events. We work with national and local governments to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters, to integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning, and to institutional strengthening and capacity building on climate adaptation, mitigation and impact reduction, etc.


PROJECT: PROFESSIONALIZING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE FOR NOVO NORDISK

NIRAS has developed an EP&L (Environmental Profit & Loss account) and corporate carbon account for Novo Nordisk and assessed the company’s dependency on environmental impacts such as greenhouse gasses, air polluting particulates and water consumption. Consequently, Novo Nordisk revised its strategy and is now putting equal emphasis on tackling environmental challenges at key suppliers and on optimizing environmental opportunities related to own operations. Speci c actions initiated, based on the account, ranges from installation of renewable energy, conversion to less pollutions and more efficient technologies, improvement of waste management and take-back schemes as well as implementation of new circular business models. The EP&L methodology is in high demand, also in developing countries.

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COMPANY: NIRAS A/S

SECONDARY GOALS: 6, 7 & 12