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Welcome to the Will Solutions blog, where we explore carbon market trends, emissions reduction strategies and regulatory developments. Whether you’re a company, organization or change agent, our analysis will help you better understand and act for a low-carbon future.
Sustainable Community and the 17 SDGs of the United Nations
When businesses seek to create a sustainable development plan or implement a corporate social responsibility strategy, it can be a challenge to prioritize actions and objectives. Some will use the standard Sustainable Development model “Environment-Society-Economy”,...
Sustainable Community and the 17 SCGs of the United Nations
Since the adoption of this UN programme, WILL’s Sustainable Community effort has aimed to integrate as many of these goals as possible in our mission and throughout our activities.
WILL’s Social Innovation Model
Our Sustainable Community is a social innovation by its clustering of expertise, especially in the context of labour scarcity, and its grouping of (through alglorithms and automisation) of all the costs of certifying a thousand GHG microprojects. Our Offer responds to...
Carbon Credit Chronicles #4: Double counting in the climate equation
Double Counting : Climate Definition Double counting is a basic accounting notion in climate circles. In order for GHG accounting and sequestration to be reliable and just there needs to be some accountability. In an ideal world, all those involved in the GHG...
Carbon Credit Chronicles #3: Having an impact on demand
Martin Clermont, CEO April 25th, 2019 From its beginnings, the Sustainable Community project had as its goal to stimulate demand for carbon credits rather than just expanding the offer side of the equation. Two years ago, I published a text promoting the idea...
Real measurable change : the 17 SDGs of the United Nations – Part 2
By Claudie Eustache In our last article concerning the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, we discussed on to integrate these in a plan or a Corporate Social Responsibility report. As with our own company WILL Solutions, we suggested...
Carbon Credit Chronicles#2: There are no climate borders
Martin Clermont, CEO April 15th, 2019 The consensus obtained at the signing of the Paris Protocol in 2015 is slowly but surely eroding. The signing states are simply unable to put into action the national policies needed to face climate change challenges. This...
Carbon Credit Chronicles: The 4th wave
July 4th, 2019 My intuition concerning a 4th wave of demand for voluntary market carbon offsets has been confirmed! It is refreshing to see that there is a consumer response, even if it is only nascent, to the scientific outcry from the IPCC’s october 2018...
Corporate social responsibility: a new decision-making model for businesses
With more consumers preoccupied by the sourcing and social/environmental impact of the goods and services they consume, a growing number of businesses are integrating the principles of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their activities. By Claudie Eustache With...