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.

Delivering Sustainable Supply Chains

Delivering Sustainable Supply ChainsRegulation, along with a drive to improve efficiency and enhance corporate reputation, has encouraged the majority of large organizations to look ...

February 9, 2012

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: GreenScreens, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, WaterSense, CarbonNeutral

Standards & Compliance Briefing: GreenScreens, Global Sustainable Tourism Council, WaterSense, CarbonNeutralNSF 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 ...

February 7, 2012

Carbon Tracking Declines Among Energy Firms, Survey Finds

Carbon Tracking Declines Among Energy Firms, Survey FindsA surprising 68 percent of energy and utility industry professionals say they have no system in place to track and report on carbon emissions, up ...

February 2, 2012

North America Lags on Supplier Emission Cuts

North America Lags on Supplier Emission CutsNorth American suppliers are likely to fall behind in the race to capitalize on climate change opportunities, scoring a D average on emissions performance ...

February 1, 2012

EL Pro Coke Improves Water Efficiency for 8th Straight Year

Coke Improves Water Efficiency for 8th Straight YearIn 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 ...

January 31, 2012

Tesco Quits Carbon Labeling

Tesco Quits Carbon LabelingTesco, the U.K.'s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all ...

January 30, 2012

EL Pro Software Briefing: NCC Group, Ryder, SAIC and ThinkEco

Software Briefing: NCC Group, Ryder, SAIC and ThinkEcoNordic region-based construction and property development firm NCC Group is to start using CA Technologies' CA ecoSoftware energy and sustainability management system. NCC hopes ...

January 27, 2012

Report: Retrofits ‘More Green’ than New-Builds

Report: Retrofits ‘More Green’ than New-BuildsRenovating old buildings is better for the environment than building new structures, according to a report by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. According to ...

January 26, 2012

Companies ‘Lagging’ on Carbon Accounting

Companies ‘Lagging’ on Carbon AccountingDespite looming deadlines for compliance with carbon regulations, most companies are still lagging in their comprehension of carbon accounting as a whole, according to ...

January 26, 2012

C3 Unveils Version 3 Energy and Emissions Software

C3 Unveils Version 3 Energy and Emissions SoftwareC3 has launched version three of its Energy and Emissions Management software. C3 Version 3 is an integrated suite of applications that manage enterprise-wide energy ...

January 24, 2012

EL Pro Grupo Pao de Acucar Chooses SAP for Energy Monitoring

Grupo Pao de Acucar Chooses SAP for Energy MonitoringThe Grupo Pao de Acucar, the largest retailer in South America, has selected the SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand product to monitor and manage carbon emissions ...

January 18, 2012

Turbine Makers: Who’s Producing Most Efficiently?

Turbine Makers: Who’s Producing Most Efficiently?Decarbonising Europe's energy use will create opportunities for manufacturers of low-carbon energy technologies, such as Vestas and General Electric. Their operational and ...

January 11, 2012

EL Pro Intuit Cuts Electricity Per Dollar Revenue, Absolute Consumption Rises

Intuit Cuts Electricity Per Dollar Revenue, Absolute Consumption RisesIntuit has steadily improved its electricity usage relative to revenue since 2007, but its absolute electricity usage has increased since FY08, according to the ...

January 11, 2012

Locus, ChemAdvisor Combine Chemical Database and Environmental ePortal

Locus, ChemAdvisor Combine Chemical Database and Environmental ePortalChemAdvisor's chemical regulatory database will be offered as a module within Locus Technologies' ePortal, the two environmental software companies have announced. Locus president and CEO ...

January 10, 2012

Carbon Tools Launched for Law Firms, Employee Engagement

Carbon Tools Launched for Law Firms, Employee EngagementLaw firm consultancy ecoAnalyze has released ED3 Lite, a free online tool for law firms to calculate their carbon footprints. Firms can use ED3 Lite ...

January 6, 2012

Carbon Disclosure Project Employs WCI App; Tendril Seeks Smart Grid Developers

Carbon Disclosure Project Employs WCI App; Tendril Seeks Smart Grid DevelopersThe Carbon Disclosure Project is using WCI Consulting's Green Analytics content in combination with cloud-based business intelligence software from SAP, to analyze and ...

January 5, 2012

Indirect Carbon Emissions and Why They Matter

Indirect Carbon Emissions and Why They MatterAccording to our recent research, a combination of regulation and consumer demand means that 93% of multinational companies are now taking ...

December 15, 2011

States Abandon Carbon Market

States Abandon Carbon MarketSix U.S. states have abandoned the planned Western Climate Initiative greenhouse gas trading program leaving only California and four Canadian provinces involved in the program's development, ...

November 22, 2011

Motorola, Deutsche Bank, Bloomberg Sign up to Windmade Label

Motorola, Deutsche Bank, Bloomberg Sign up to Windmade LabelMajor global companies including Motorola Mobility, Deutsche Bank and Bloomberg have produced or have pledged to procure at least 25 percent of their operations’ power consumption ...

November 21, 2011

Atos to Use SAP Sustainability App; Greenstone Updates Acco2unt

Atos to Use SAP Sustainability App; Greenstone Updates Acco2untInternational IT services company Atos will use SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability ...

November 14, 2011