Climate

Climate change, global warming, EPA regulations, and greenhouse gas emissions are discussed. These articles also examine methods that are being used to reduce carbon emissions that may be leading to climate change.

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Rio+20, Natural Gas Lobby, NRC, Camp David Declaration

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Rio+20, Natural Gas Lobby, NRC, Camp David DeclarationHere'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 ...

May 23, 2012

Putting a Price on the Ocean

Putting a Price on the OceanFor most businesses, the environmental impact of climate change on the oceans is not a top priority. Unless your business is directly reliant ...

May 16, 2012

Cafedirect Using Carbon Credits to Fund Green Coffee

Cafedirect Using Carbon Credits to Fund Green CoffeeCafedirect - the UK's largest fair trade hot drink supplier - is using the carbon market to fund adaptation projects that, in turn, support the ...

May 15, 2012

PepsiCo, Walmart Partner to Manage Ecosystem Risks

PepsiCo, Walmart Partner to Manage Ecosystem RisksAnglo American, Grupo Andre Maggi, PepsiCo, Vale, Votorantim and Walmart have partnered to develop business strategies that protect the ecosystems in which they operate in ...

May 11, 2012

Diageo Stops Heartland Donations in Wake of Unabomber Billboard

Diageo Stops Heartland Donations in Wake of Unabomber BillboardDrink giant Diageo says it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that denies global warming, the Guardian reports, following ...

May 7, 2012

EL Pro SAP GHGs Up 22 Percent in Q1 2012 Compared to Q1 2011

SAP GHGs Up 22 Percent in Q1 2012 Compared to Q1 2011Software company SAP emitted 145 kilotons of greenhouse gasses in Q1 2012, a 22 percent increase in GHGs this quarter compared with ...

April 30, 2012

The Policy Nexus of Food Security, Climate Change, and Sustainability

The Policy Nexus of Food Security, Climate Change, and Sustainability "The Policy Nexus of Food Security, Climate Change, and Sustainability" Chair: Alan ...

April 18, 2012

100 Best Corporate Citizens Revealed

100 Best Corporate Citizens RevealedBristol-Myers Squibb is ranked no. 1 on the list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2012 from CR Magazine, followed by IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Johnson ...

April 18, 2012

U.S. Emissions Up 3.2% As Economy Expands, Summers Heat Up

U.S. Emissions Up 3.2% As Economy Expands, Summers Heat UpU.S. GHG emissions in 2010 rose by 3.2 percent from 2009, due to the expanding economy and an increased demand for air conditioning caused by ...

April 17, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf Sheen

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf SheenHere's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items. India's environment minister called the EU aviation ...

April 13, 2012

Honeywell to Destroy Ozone-Depleting Refrigerants for 125,000 Tons of Carbon Credits

Honeywell to Destroy Ozone-Depleting Refrigerants for 125,000 Tons of Carbon CreditsHoneywell has begun destroying inventories of certain ozone-depleting refrigerants and selling the resulting emission reduction credits for use in California's greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, the ...

April 3, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell Blocks Activists; BP Funds, Iran, Great Lakes Wind

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell Blocks Activists; BP Funds, Iran, Great Lakes WindShell has won an injunction, issued by a federal district court in Alaska, expanding the scope of an earlier restraining order that blocked Greenpeace activists ...

April 2, 2012

Less than Half of UK Businesses Plan for Climate Change Adaptation, CDP Finds

Less than Half of UK Businesses Plan for Climate Change Adaptation, CDP FindsMore than 80 percent of U.K. businesses say climate change is a substantial risk to them, citing a range of risk factors including change in ...

March 29, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Indian Point, EPA Overruled on Coal, UK Delays GHG Reporting Law

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Indian Point, EPA Overruled on Coal, UK Delays GHG Reporting LawEntergy, the owner of Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y., has agreed with the New York State DEC to pay a $1.2 million penalty ...

March 28, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-Track

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-TrackThe EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards ...

March 23, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: PTC, China Solar Tariffs, Chemical Reporting, India and ETS

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: PTC, China Solar Tariffs, Chemical Reporting, India and ETSNew bipartisan legislation seeks an extension to the production tax credit for wind energy under the American Energy and Job Promotion Act, after the measure ...

March 21, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Superfund Sites, OECD Report on GHG, Tier 3 Standards

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Superfund Sites, OECD Report on GHG, Tier 3 StandardsPresident Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the release of emergency oil reserves during a bilateral meeting this week, but no agreement ...

March 16, 2012

US Retrofits Worth $1tn Savings Over 10 Years, Report Says

US Retrofits Worth $1tn Savings Over 10 Years, Report SaysU.S. retrofits could yield $1 trillion of energy savings over 10 years, equivalent to savings of about 30 percent of the country's annual electricity ...

March 2, 2012

Climate Leadership Award Winners Revealed

Climate Leadership Award Winners RevealedTwenty companies, including IBM, San Diego Gas & Electric, Port of Los Angeles, SAP and UPS, were named the winners of the inaugural ...

March 2, 2012

EL Pro Policy & Enforcement Briefing: BP Trial, Forest Emissions, FTC Hits Window Claims

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: BP Trial, Forest Emissions, FTC Hits Window ClaimsBP and plaintiffs suing over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are discussing a $14 billion settlement that appears to be nearing completion. ...

February 27, 2012