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Dive Brief: Caterpillar is bracing for tariff headwinds between $1.3 billion and $1.5 billion for the year despite mitigation and cost control efforts, CFO Andrew Bonfield said during a second quarter earnings call Tuesday. The construction and mining equipment maker saw a nearly $350 million tariff impact in Q2, and is expecting higher trade-related costs in…

  The real peak season for HVAC isn’t in the heat of summer but later in October when heating systems begin to turn on again after months sitting idle, according to research released Wednesday by Samsara, a fleet management and safety software provider. Despite the association between HVAC calls and extreme heat, October consistently marks…

  When New York City’s Safe Hotels Act took effect this spring, it added a new layer of regulation to one of the city’s most scrutinized industries. Billed as a public safety and worker protection initiative, the law imposes a licensing system and staffing mandates that operators say are increasing costs and limiting operational flexibility…

As the effects of climate change intensify and the demand for cleaner, smarter ways of working grows, sustainability in the workplace has become not just an ethical imperative, but a strategic one. At Lakeside North Harbour, a business campus set in 130-acre landscaped grounds in Portsmouth on the South Coast, we are not just embracing…

  An increasingly common narrative in corporate environmental reports is the one about “avoided emissions,” a.k.a. Scope 4. Roughly 2,400 companies reporting to disclosure service CDP in 2022 used some variation of the term — more than 10 percent of those that submitted data. The challenge with such declarations is that the methodologies used to support…

Sometimes it’s hard to tell what corporate actions are really making a difference. But according to a survey of more than 800 sustainability experts, these actions are the most impactful over the next five years: Tech innovation and R&D (70 percent) Corporate sustainability-linked compensation (65 percent) Commercialization of sustainability via products and services (65 percent)…