Lopez-led engineering and construction subsidiary First Balfour Inc., and its vendors have agreed to explore measures they can adopt and integrate into their respective business operations as their way of supporting the campaign to help reverse adverse climate change.
In a recent forum, Vicente de Lima II, First Balfour strategic business head, said collaboration with vendors and subcontractors, government, communities and even with competitors is most important for the construction sector to act on issues of climate change.
The company also agreed to join a local initiative called Ako Ang Bukas Movement (AAB), which pro-environment and non-government organization Green Convergence convened to help the country achieve net-zero carbon emissions by year 2050.
The multi-sectoral AAB has developed a calculator that the Climate Change Commission earlier evaluated and enhanced for quantifying the amount of greenhouse gases an individual or an organization creates.
First Balfour as well as its vendors can use the AAB calculator to estimate the company’s greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain. -J. Macapagal
