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.
Atos to Use SAP Sustainability App; Greenstone Updates Acco2unt
International IT services company Atos will use SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability ...
Report: Energy Management for Industry to Reach $5bn in 2020
Energy management solutions for industrial and manufacturing companies are a billion-dollar opportunity for energy management software and services vendors, according to a new report from Pike ...
Chemical Firms Report Carbon Management Progress
Some 26 percent of major chemical companies now report top-level carbon management strategies, according to a survey by IT firm Computer Sciences Corporation and Chemical Week ...
NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2
NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.'s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles ...
Best Buy Energy Automation to Cut Costs 15% in Three Years
Best Buy is to implement a new energy management system across its 1,105 U.S. retail locations, in a move expected to reduce the company's energy costs ...
CDP Canada 2011: Key Highlights
Carbon Disclosure Project recently released its Canada 2011 report at the Toronto Stock Exchange. More Canadian companies than ever publicly report their greenhouse ...
Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 Rises
Procter & Gamble's scope 1 CO2 emissions rose from 2.8 million to 2.9 million metric tons in 2011, but scope 2 emissions fell ...
Exclusive: Sprint Toughens GHG Goal by 5% Under WWF Agreement
Sprint has upped its carbon reduction goal by five percentage points as it becomes one of just 28 companies to join the World Wildlife ...
Reckitt Benckiser 75% of the Way Towards 2020 CO2 Goal
Reckitt Benckiser, the company behind Lysol, Durex, Clearasil and other well-known brands, is three-quarters of the way towards its 2020 carbon reduction ...
First Certification Launched for WRI Product Lifecycle Standard
The Carbon Trust has announced that it is the first organisation to certify to the new product lifecycle standard released yesterday by the ...
Scope 3 GHG Reporting Standards Finalized
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol today published two standards to help businesses measure, manage and report GHG emissions beyond their own operations, including ...
NHS to Assess Emissions of Procurement
The U.K.’s National Health Service has begun assessing the carbon footprint of health care procurement.
Many N.H.S. bodies already include environmental costs into their procurement decision making, ...
Carbon Credits ‘Questionable’; Truckers Earning Carbon Offsets
Most carbon credits certified in India are “questionable” and do not represent real greenhouse gas reductions, according to a Wikileaks cable.
An American diplomatic cable ...
Anheuser-Busch, GE Form Alliance to Cut CO2, Water
Anheuser-Busch InBev and GE have formed a strategic alliance that they expect to cut 100,000 tons of CO2 emissions a year from AB ...
EU ETS to Cost Airlines $1.5bn in 2012; BA Hit Hardest
The cost for airlines of joining the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme in 2012 will be approximately €1.1 billion ($1.5 billion) using a carbon price of ...
Comcast, Honeywell Slammed by CDP; UPS Tops Latest Rankings
UPS, Consolidated Edison and Dow Chemical are among the top-ranked U.S. companies in the Carbon Disclosure Project's annual carbon performance and disclosure ratings for ...
Shaw Improves Water Use, Carpet Recycling
Shaw Industries Group lowered both its water intensity and post-industrial waste intensity last year, while greenhouse gas intensity held steady, according to the carpet ...
IHS Tool Links into EPA’s Carbon Reporting System
IHS has launched a product that automates the preparation of data for submission via the Environmental Protection Agency’s online system, the electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool ...
Empire State Building Awarded LEED Gold Certification
The Empire State Building has been awarded LEED Gold for Existing Buildings certification.
It is the tallest and almost certainly the best-known building in the U.S. to ...
Umow Lai’s Director of Sustainability Discusses Aussie Carbon Tax
With the introduction of the carbon tax fueling intense debate about sustainability across Australia's economy, Straight Talk sat down with Umow ...
