Carbon Management
Carbon management is the effort to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions. These stories look at corporate sustainability programs and attempts to lower energy costs through carbon management. They also explore fuel standard requirements, EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming, and efforts to reduce carbon footprints.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Rio+20, Natural Gas Lobby, NRC, Camp David Declaration
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
The World Business Council for Sustainable ...
Winning App Helps Commercial Buildings Get Energy Star Benchmark
Melon, an app that simplifies the process of getting an Energy Star benchmark for a commercial building, was one of the big winners in ...
The Many Moving Pieces of California’s Cap and Trade Program
The calendar says May 2012, so what does that mean for California's attempts to implement a first-in-the-nation, economy-wide Cap and Trade Program? ...
AEP Sustainability Report: Carbon Emissions Rise 1.5%, Revenues up 4.8%
American Electric Power's total CO2 emissions rose just shy of 1.5 percent from 2010 to 2011, while revenues rose 4.8 percent over that time period, ...
Coke, Sony, Volvo and Other ‘Climate Savers’ Cut CO2 by 100 Million Tons
Coca-Cola Company, Johnson & Johnson, Sony, Volvo and other members of WWF's Climate Savers program cut their carbon dioxide emissions by more than 100 ...
Port of Los Angeles to Pay Carriers for Using Low-Emission Ships
The Port of Los Angeles has adopted an international clean air program that will ...
North America Has Capacity to Store 500 Years of CO2 Emissions
North America's geological formations have the capacity to store 500 years of carbon dioxide emissions, according to an atlas produced by the United States, Canada ...
Greenstone Tool Promises to Streamline Supply Chain Monitoring
Greenstone Carbon Management Limited has launched SupplierPortal, an online tool that allows suppliers and their buyers to share and monitor environment, labor, health ...
Abbott Sustainability Report: Three 2015 Targets Met Four Years Early
Global health care company Abbott Laboratories reached its 2015 goals for carbon dioxide emissions, water intake and waste output in 2011, while increasing year-on-year sales ...
AB InBev Sustainability Report: Meets CO2 Target a Year Early; Water Use Down 8%
AB InBev last year cut its greenhouse gas emissions relative to production by 5.3 percent, meeting its goal of a 10 percent reduction on 2009 ...
Mandatory Carbon Reporting (But Not as We Know It)
The United Kingdom government's decision last month to sidestep the question of mandatory carbon reporting has been met with disdain in some quarters. ...
Renewables Briefing: Markey Group, Constellation Energy, U.S. Air Force
Here's the latest news on renewable power installations, contracts, financing, permits and market changes affecting corporate environmental and energy executives.
Markey Group has opened a £1.1 million ...
Ecolab Cuts Fuel Consumption by 22% Since 2006
Ecolab has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 22 percent since 2006, normalized to sales, helping to earn it a Sustainable Fleet award from the NAFA ...
Missouri Geothermal Project ‘Will Halve Campus Energy Use’
Missouri University of Science and Technology is to build a geothermal heat project that it hopes will halve the campus's energy use.
By the time the ...
Coca-Cola, Vodafone, Marks & Spencer Win Environmental Reporting Awards
Coca-Cola Enterprises has won the top honor in the CR Reporting Awards 2011, taking home the Best Report award for its corporate responsibility ...
Coca-Cola, Carbon Trust Investigate Personal Carbon Allowances
A study by Coca-Cola Co. and The Carbon Trust that investigated how people might respond to personal carbon allowances ...
Lush Cosmetics Taps the Cloud to Track Its Carbon Footprint
Lush, an international cosmetics company, has tapped cloud data management firm CloudApps to help it more accurately measure its environmental ...
DHL Uses Rail to Cut Carbon Emissions
DHL Global Forwarding will rely more heavily on rail in Germany to transport containers to sea freight terminals in an effort to cut its carbon ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Carbon Trust Standard, CEMARS, Net Zero Energy Building, ISO 50001, LEED
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
Samsung Electronics has earned the Carbon Trust Standard ...
Volvo Sustainability Report: Hazardous Waste Up 14%, Energy Use 7% - But Sales Up 17%
From 2010 to 2011, Volvo Group's energy use rose 7 percent and its hazardous waste production rose by 14 percent - both smaller percentages than ...
