Manchester-based tech business bucks industry trend with 50% female leadership team. Last month, Manchester-based tech firm Invisible Systems appointed Claire Robinson as Sales Director. Robinson brings over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing to her new role, having previously worked for tech giants Lenovo and Epsom.

Greenwashing is the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company's products are more environmentally sound. Chances are you’ve heard of Greenwashing. It’s a phrase that’s increasingly thrown around as businesses make wilder claims about their sustainable initiatives.

The concept of net-zero emissions is becoming increasingly important for businesses as the world moves towards a more sustainable future. In order to achieve this goal, companies must look at all aspects of their operations, from the direct emissions generated by their operations (Scope 1) to the indirect emissions generated by their suppliers and customers (Scope 2 and Scope 3).

The world is taking steps towards a more sustainable future as concern about climate change continues to grow. One clear indication of this is the significant increase in investment in low-carbon technology, which has reached an all-time high.

The manufacturing industry is responsible for fuelling consumption and production around the globe. It is dependent on complex, multi-step supply chains and processes, which make up around a third of the word’s energy usage. This means that the manufacturing industry arguably has a great responsibility to support progress and implement changes to reach net zero and slow climate change and its consequences.

Today is National Pizza Day (an odd one, we know). Prior to the First World War, there was little awareness of pizza outside of its native Italy. Today, it’s estimated that the average UK consumer will eat 731 pizzas in their lifetime. But is your pizza more carbon than calories? If you’re ordering a pizza regularly from your favourite takeaway, there’s a general calculation that it’s contributing 290 kg of carbon dioxide each time.

This Valentine’s day, give a little love to something more than your significant other – the planet. With sea levels on the rise, natural disasters becoming more frequent and food sources becoming increasingly sparse, it isn’t difficult to see the impact that our behaviours, whether we recognise them as a big deal or not, are having on the planet.

There’s a lot to unpack from COP27. The two week conference saw leaders from around the world come together in Egypt, in order to discuss the growing issue of climate change and assess the responses and measures taken since the last conference, COP26 in 2021.

Stopping the spread of COVID-19 has dominated our minds and the key targets of the medical industry for the last few years. However, there are other health threats that we must still be wary of and take reasonable measures to prevent causes and the spread of. Following the re-opening of businesses and buildings across the globe post-pandemic, the UK Health and Safety Executive released a bulletin, warning premises of the risk of legionella and the need for assessment.

The term ‘fuel poverty’ refers to the ‘condition of being unable to afford to keep one’s home adequately heated’. But this definition seems soulless when it comes to thinking about the millions of individuals across the UK who are struggling with the unthinkable decision between heating their home or feeding themselves and their families.