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.
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 ...
Putting a Price on the Ocean
For most businesses, the environmental impact of climate change on the oceans is not a top priority. Unless your business is directly reliant ...
Cafedirect Using Carbon Credits to Fund Green Coffee
Cafedirect - the UK's largest fair trade hot drink supplier - is using the carbon market to fund adaptation projects that, in turn, support the ...
PepsiCo, Walmart Partner to Manage Ecosystem Risks
Anglo American, Grupo Andre Maggi, PepsiCo, Vale, Votorantim and Walmart have partnered to develop business strategies that protect the ecosystems in which they operate in ...
Diageo Stops Heartland Donations in Wake of Unabomber Billboard
Drink giant Diageo says it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that denies global warming, the Guardian reports, following ...
SAP GHGs Up 22 Percent in Q1 2012 Compared to Q1 2011
Software company SAP emitted 145 kilotons of greenhouse gasses in Q1 2012, a 22 percent increase in GHGs this quarter compared with ...
The Policy Nexus of Food Security, Climate Change, and Sustainability
"The Policy Nexus of Food Security, Climate Change, and Sustainability"
Chair: Alan ...
100 Best Corporate Citizens Revealed
Bristol-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 ...
U.S. Emissions Up 3.2% As Economy Expands, Summers Heat Up
U.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 ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: EU Aviation Law, Carbon Permits, GHG Targets, Gulf Sheen
Here'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 ...
Honeywell to Destroy Ozone-Depleting Refrigerants for 125,000 Tons of Carbon Credits
Honeywell 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 ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell Blocks Activists; BP Funds, Iran, Great Lakes Wind
Shell has won an injunction, issued by a federal district court in Alaska, expanding the scope of an earlier restraining order that blocked Greenpeace activists ...
Less than Half of UK Businesses Plan for Climate Change Adaptation, CDP Finds
More 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 ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Indian Point, EPA Overruled on Coal, UK Delays GHG Reporting Law
Entergy, 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 ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Air Standards, Supreme Court Ruling, EU ETS, Chevron, Keystone Fast-Track
The EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: PTC, China Solar Tariffs, Chemical Reporting, India and ETS
New bipartisan legislation seeks an extension to the production tax credit for wind energy under the American Energy and Job Promotion Act, after the measure ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Superfund Sites, OECD Report on GHG, Tier 3 Standards
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the release of emergency oil reserves during a bilateral meeting this week, but no agreement ...
US Retrofits Worth $1tn Savings Over 10 Years, Report Says
U.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 ...
Climate Leadership Award Winners Revealed
Twenty companies, including IBM, San Diego Gas & Electric, Port of Los Angeles, SAP and UPS, were named the winners of the inaugural ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: BP Trial, Forest Emissions, FTC Hits Window Claims
BP and plaintiffs suing over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are discussing a $14 billion settlement that appears to be nearing completion. ...
