News Corp. says it will put its media muscle behind reducing its operations’ carbon emissions and engaging its 47,000 employees and its millions of readers, viewers and web users around the world on the issue.
In fiscal 2006, News Corporation’s carbon footprint is 641,150 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents and was measured across the 52 countries in which News Corp. has activities.
Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch says that all News Corp. business units will become carbon neutral by 2010 -? through energy efficiency, buying renewable power and offsetting otherwise unavoidable emissions.
Highlights of the company’s initiative:
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