http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/carbon-positive-launches-energy-management-for-ports/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/carbon-positive-launches-energy-management-for-ports/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:50 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69732 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 consultancy launched the Carbon Positive Programme for Ports, which it says will help ports manage their energy and natural resource requirements and reduce their carbon footprint, ultimately contributing to carbon emissions [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/carbon-positive-launches-energy-management-for-ports/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/delivering-sustainable-supply-chains/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/delivering-sustainable-supply-chains/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:11:03 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69684 Regulation, along with a drive to improve efficiency and enhance corporate reputation, has encouraged the majority of large organizations to look at how they can measure and reduce carbon in their own business.  As this becomes standard business practice, leading businesses are now focusing on how to make continual, ongoing improvements to their carbon footprint [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/delivering-sustainable-supply-chains/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/standards-compliance-briefing-greenscreens-global-sustainable-tourism-council-watersense-carbonneutral/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/standards-compliance-briefing-greenscreens-global-sustainable-tourism-council-watersense-carbonneutral/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:19:59 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69535 NSF International now offers chemical reviews in accordance with Clean Production Action’s (CPA) GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals program. The Greenscreen scores chemicals from one through four, defining progressively safer chemicals, one for chemicals of high concern and four for a chemical with low hazard, allowing for hazard reduction and potential substitution, NSF said. The Global [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/standards-compliance-briefing-greenscreens-global-sustainable-tourism-council-watersense-carbonneutral/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/carbon-tracking-declines-among-energy-firms-survey-finds/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/carbon-tracking-declines-among-energy-firms-survey-finds/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:08:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69350 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 from 58 percent last year, according to a survey by Enviance. And despite their lack of tracking system, more than three-fifths of the 237 professionals surveyed at the EUEC energy, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/carbon-tracking-declines-among-energy-firms-survey-finds/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/north-america-lags-on-supplier-emission-cuts/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/north-america-lags-on-supplier-emission-cuts/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:19:13 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69286 North American suppliers are likely to fall behind in the race to capitalize on climate change opportunities, scoring a D average on emissions performance compared to the C average for European and Asian suppliers, according to research published today by the Carbon Disclosure Project and Accenture. A New Era: Supplier Management in the Low-Carbon Economy, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/north-america-lags-on-supplier-emission-cuts/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/coke-improves-water-efficiency-for-8th-straight-year/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/coke-improves-water-efficiency-for-8th-straight-year/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:45:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69188 In 2010, Coca-Cola improved its water use efficiency for the eighth consecutive year, with a ratio of 2.26 liters of water per liter of product, according to its eighth systemwide sustainability report. This was a four percent reduction from 2009 levels and a 16 percent reduction since 2004, the company’s baseline year. The company is [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/coke-improves-water-efficiency-for-8th-straight-year/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:37:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69116 Tesco, the U.K.’s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all 70,000 of its products. Tesco will no longer use the Carbon Trust labels on its products, saying that the program is too expensive and time-consuming, The Grocer reports. The supermarket chain said the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/software-briefing-ncc-group-ryder-saic-and-thinkeco/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/software-briefing-ncc-group-ryder-saic-and-thinkeco/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:22:28 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69042 Nordic region-based construction and property development firm NCC Group is to start using CA Technologies’ CA ecoSoftware energy and sustainability management system. NCC hopes to use the product to automate its carbon reporting and lower its emissions. Transportation and supply chain management company Ryder System Inc. has launched “RydeSmart 3.0,” the next generation of its [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/software-briefing-ncc-group-ryder-saic-and-thinkeco/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/report-retrofits-more-green-than-new-builds/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/report-retrofits-more-green-than-new-builds/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:14:46 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68987 Renovating old buildings is better for the environment than building new structures, according to a report by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. According to The Greenest building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse, renovating an existing historic office building in Chicago reduces the building’s impact on climate change by up to 12 percent [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/report-retrofits-more-green-than-new-builds/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/companies-lagging-on-carbon-accounting/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/companies-lagging-on-carbon-accounting/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:27:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68979 Despite looming deadlines for compliance with carbon regulations, most companies are still lagging in their comprehension of carbon accounting as a whole, according to a survey by Epicor Software Corporation. Major economies such as Australian and California are putting a price on carbon, but the survey revealed that 58 percent of companies had not heard [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/companies-lagging-on-carbon-accounting/feed/ 0