Green is beautiful for Nordic bottom line

ENDS Europe Daily, 27 August 2008 – Management consultancy Accenture looked at 120 large companies in Norway, Denmark Finland and Sweden with a turnover above €80m.  Nine out of ten of the firms had implemented environmental programmes.

Seventy per cent of the firms with green programmes achieved cost reductions, 39 per cent showed revenue growth, and almost half were considered to have gained “revenue protection as a result of enhanced image”, according to the report.

The programmes involved reductions in energy consumption (93 per cent of firms), waste (83 per cent) and direct emissions (67 per cent), reductions or changes in material usage (78 per cent), and the launch of new products or services (60 per cent). Read more

Source: Ends and WBCSD

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