http://www.environmentalleader.com The Executive's Daily Green Briefing Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/20/around-the-web-nike-google-nissan-bushs-green-library-wwf/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/20/around-the-web-nike-google-nissan-bushs-green-library-wwf/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:02:10 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27653 Today’s news from around the Web. Google Says It Doesn’t Want to Be a Utility NY Times How Much of China’s Emissions Mess Is Really Ours? WSJ Benchmarking Tool Aims to Help Semiconductor Facilities Improve Energy Efficiency IndustryWeek Plans for the Green George W. Bush Presidential Center Released inhabitat Nissan chief: Electric car adoption to be gradual AP How Nike Considered Uses Innovation and Collaboration [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/20/around-the-web-nike-google-nissan-bushs-green-library-wwf/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/corporate-jetsetters-can-be-carbon-offsetters/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/corporate-jetsetters-can-be-carbon-offsetters/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:21:58 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27478 A new program from InJet, which offers private corporate jet services, will allow companies and individuals to offset the emissions of their flights. The InJet Green program, which is supported by TerraPass, allows customers to choose from different models of carbon offsetting, depending on the size of jet chosen. The company often sells its services in 25-hour [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/corporate-jetsetters-can-be-carbon-offsetters/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/13/senate-climate-bill-may-be-reshaped-by-coal-states/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/13/senate-climate-bill-may-be-reshaped-by-coal-states/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:47:33 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27242 Senators from states heavily reliant on coal-fired electricity want the climate bill to apportion more free carbon permits to their states, reports Reuters. Without such changes, electricity consumers in certain states would have to pay unfairly higher rates, a group of 14 Democratic Senators stated, in a letter to other Senators overseeing the climate bill negotiations. The [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/13/senate-climate-bill-may-be-reshaped-by-coal-states/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/11/greenbuild-conference-news-roundup-day-1/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/11/greenbuild-conference-news-roundup-day-1/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:00:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27110 With the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo now underway in Phoenix, Ariz., here are some of the initial announcements. YKK AP America has launched (PDF) two new products aimed at improving the energy-efficiency of commercial buildings. The company has expanded its enerGfacade product line with the addition of two new aluminum door and curtain wall products [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/11/greenbuild-conference-news-roundup-day-1/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/10/nations-argue-over-co2-emissions-cuts-audits/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/10/nations-argue-over-co2-emissions-cuts-audits/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:45:14 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=26995 The measurement, reporting and auditing of greenhouse gas emissions by each country is a key focus of U.N. climate negotiations leading up to climate talks in Copenhagen in December, reports Reuters. Rich nations are under pressure to cut their emissions 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and spend billions in aid and green technology for [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/10/nations-argue-over-co2-emissions-cuts-audits/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/09/study-finds-more-value-in-peat-co2-credits/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/09/study-finds-more-value-in-peat-co2-credits/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:36:39 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=26940 Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters. Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and release toxic haze into the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/09/study-finds-more-value-in-peat-co2-credits/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/06/carbon-trading-could-trigger-a-sub-prime-style-economic-crash/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/06/carbon-trading-could-trigger-a-sub-prime-style-economic-crash/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:41:52 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=26830 Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second ’sub-prime’ style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from a global warming catastrophe, according to a report from Friends of the Earth. The trade in carbon permits and credits, primarily based in Europe, was worth $126 billion in 2008 [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/06/carbon-trading-could-trigger-a-sub-prime-style-economic-crash/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/05/disney-buys-7m-in-reforestation-offsets-a-corporate-record/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/05/disney-buys-7m-in-reforestation-offsets-a-corporate-record/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:44:05 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=26794 Walt Disney Corp., by donating about $7 million to various conservation programs, aims to offset a portion of its emissions. Some are calling the move by Disney the biggest single corporate investment in forest carbon offsets to date. The move is part of Disney’s effort to use “high quality offsets” to attain a net-zero emissions status, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/05/disney-buys-7m-in-reforestation-offsets-a-corporate-record/feed/ 3 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/05/eu-poised-to-give-heavy-industry-free-carbon-permits/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/05/eu-poised-to-give-heavy-industry-free-carbon-permits/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:58:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=26729 European industries including metals, building materials, textiles and ceramics will benefit from free carbon permits, starting in 2013, under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme. Operators in those industries complained that not having free pollution permits would make them uncompetitive with their counterparts in India, North Africa and Russia, reports Reuters. The EU’s executive European Commission had drawn [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/05/eu-poised-to-give-heavy-industry-free-carbon-permits/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/04/responsibletravel-com-scuttles-carbon-offsetting-option/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/04/responsibletravel-com-scuttles-carbon-offsetting-option/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:48:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=26722 One of the first travel agencies to give fliers the option to offset the carbon emissions of their flights has ceased offering the program, calling it a “medieval pardon.” Responsibletravel.com, a UK travel agency, had been offering the offsetting option since 2002. Now it believes the best way to address global emissions is to focus on [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/04/responsibletravel-com-scuttles-carbon-offsetting-option/feed/ 3