Finance & Reporting
Carbon Positive Launches Energy Management for Ports
Carbon Positive has launched what it calls the first program specifically to help ports adopt long-term strategies for energy and carbon management.
The maritime ...
Google Jumps to 1st Place in Cool IT Climate Rankings
Google has secured the top spot in Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard, with 53 points, up from 47 points and fourth place in the rankings' last edition.
The search giant is followed by Cisco – ...
Oasis Calls on Customers to Audit Its Paper Sustainability
Oasis Brands has invited leading U.S. grocery chains to audit its Indonesia-sourced tissue products, including materials sourced from Asia Pulp & Paper.
In a letter ...
Colgate Sustainability Report: Goals Met for GHGs, Water Use, Energy, COD
Colgate-Palmolive beat goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and water use by five and 25 percent from 2002 to 2010, achieving reductions of 7.8 ...
Utility Asks for 15% Rate Hike; Efficiency Spend to Double
Utility Ameren Missouri is planning a 14.6 percent rate hike next year to reimburse investments in renewable energy, efficiency and reliability.
The subsidiary of Ameren ...
Companies Lured with 45% Electricity Discount
Santee Cooper, South Carolina's biggest power producer, is offering discounts as high as 45 percent to businesses moving to or expanding in the state ...
Tool to Ease Colleges’ Reporting for Sustainability Rankings
Starting this Wednesday, colleges and universities will have a single portal for reporting their data to some of the biggest sustainability rankings in education.
The Association ...
Carbon Tracking Declines Among Energy Firms, Survey Finds
A surprising 68 percent of energy and utility industry professionals say they have no system in place to track and report on carbon emissions, up ...
Tesco Quits Carbon Labeling
Tesco, the U.K.'s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all ...
GRI Launches Event Sustainability Guidance
The Global Reporting Initiative has published sustainability guidance for events, from business meetings to cultural festivals, and the organizers of this year’s Olympics say ...
Honda NA Hits Another CO2 Goal, a Year Late
Last year Honda met its 2010 goal of a 20 percent cut to CO2 from power equipment production, with a 27.2 percent drop from ...
Clorox Puts Ingredient Lists in the Palm of Consumers’ Hands
Clorox has launched a smartphone application to help consumers look up the ingredients of its household and commercial products.
The Clorox Ingredients Inside ...
Google US Data Centers Now ISO 140001 Certified
Google has received ISO 14001 certification for all of its U.S. data centers, reducing oil consumption in its back up generators by 67 percent in ...
Carbon Capture Project Gets First U.S. PPA; Masdar Eyes CDM Credits
CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed the nation's first power purchase agreement for electricity from a commercial-scale carbon capture project.
The utility, ...
CDP to Intensity Environmental Accounting Work After $1.5m Prize Win
The Carbon Disclosure Project will expand its work to set accounting standards for environmental disclosure, after winning the $1.5 million Zayed Future Energy Prize in ...
Highlights from Investor Summit on Climate Risk & Energy Solutions
On January 12, 2012, nearly 500 of the world's investors and financial players gathered at the United Nations to showcase their ...
Airlines Snap Up Bargain Carbon Permits, Rail at 'Looney Tax'
Air France-KLM and Lufthansa are preparing for inclusion in the EU's carbon trading scheme by buying allowances at low prices, while Ryanair has declared ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Apple Supply Chain Audits, Council for Responsible Sports, e-Stewards
Apple, Inc. released information on 229 supply-chain audits of compliance with health, safety and environmental standards, along with the names of its suppliers and manufacturing ...
Apple Releases Supplier List, as NGOs Praise Chinese Transparency Progress
The National Resources Defense Council and Beijing-based NGO the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs have said China is making steady progress on ...
GM Sets Energy, Carbon, Water Goals in First Report as New Firm
The General Motors Company has committed to reduce its facilities' energy intensity and carbon intensity by 20 percent, and water intensity by 15 percent, ...
