http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-rio20-natural-gas-lobby-nrc-camp-david-declaration/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-rio20-natural-gas-lobby-nrc-camp-david-declaration/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=77212 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 Development has released a policy report directed toward the Rio+20 conference that outlines a set of policy recommendations from the business community. The report has seven categories of action including [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-rio20-natural-gas-lobby-nrc-camp-david-declaration/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/16/putting-a-price-on-the-ocean/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/16/putting-a-price-on-the-ocean/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 13:49:01 +0000 Emily McClendon http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76648 For most businesses, the environmental impact of climate change on the oceans is not a top priority. Unless your business is directly reliant on a clean and sustainable ocean, for example fisheries or cruise lines, there is little to no consideration of the havoc climate change is wreaking. Most people are at least peripherally aware [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/16/putting-a-price-on-the-ocean/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/15/cafedirect-using-carbon-credits-to-fund-green-coffee/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/15/cafedirect-using-carbon-credits-to-fund-green-coffee/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:20:03 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76516 Cafedirect – the UK’s largest fair trade hot drink supplier – is using the carbon market to fund adaptation projects that, in turn, support the sustainability of its own coffee production. As one of the four pilot groups of Cafédirect’sAdapCC project, the Peruvian cooperative of Cepicafe began investigating ways the carbon market could be used to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/15/cafedirect-using-carbon-credits-to-fund-green-coffee/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/pepsico-wal-mart-partner-to-manage-ecosystem-risks/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/pepsico-wal-mart-partner-to-manage-ecosystem-risks/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 16:45:19 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76364 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 Brazil. The newly formed Parceria Empresarial pelos Serviços Ecossistêmicos, or Brazilian Business and Ecosystem Services Partnership, is an initiative to show how biodiversity and ecosystem services – the benefits that [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/11/pepsico-wal-mart-partner-to-manage-ecosystem-risks/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/07/diageo-stops-heartland-donations-after-unabomber-billboards/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/07/diageo-stops-heartland-donations-after-unabomber-billboards/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 06:32:09 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75908 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 a controversial ad campaign by the non-profit. On May 3, a Heartland billboard appeared over the Eisenhower Expressway in Illinois showing a picture of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, with the slogan: [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/07/diageo-stops-heartland-donations-after-unabomber-billboards/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/30/sap-ghgs-up-22-percent-in-q1-2012-compared-to-q1-2011/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/30/sap-ghgs-up-22-percent-in-q1-2012-compared-to-q1-2011/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:04:21 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75392 Software company SAP emitted 145 kilotons of greenhouse gasses in Q1 2012, a 22 percent increase in GHGs this quarter compared with Q1 2011, according to the firm’s quarterly sustainability report. The German corporation attributes this jump in emissions to a 45 percent increase in air travel, a 7 percent increase in company car emissions [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/30/sap-ghgs-up-22-percent-in-q1-2012-compared-to-q1-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/18/the-policy-nexus-of-food-security-climate-change-and-sustainability/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/18/the-policy-nexus-of-food-security-climate-change-and-sustainability/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:03:22 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73217 “The Policy Nexus of Food Security, Climate Change, and Sustainability” Chair: Alan Tomkins, Office of Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State Nwadiuto Esiobu, Office of Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State Introduction and Overview Eric Luftman, Senior Advisor for Food Security, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State Current [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/18/the-policy-nexus-of-food-security-climate-change-and-sustainability/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/18/bristol-myers-squibb-ibm-microsoft-intel-and-johnson-controls-top-100-best-corporate-citizens-2012/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/18/bristol-myers-squibb-ibm-microsoft-intel-and-johnson-controls-top-100-best-corporate-citizens-2012/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:34:01 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74541 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 Controls. Bristol-Meyers Squibb moved to the top from the fourth position on last year’s ranking; IBM improved from its third place ranking, and Johnson Controls slipped from the top slot down four [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/18/bristol-myers-squibb-ibm-microsoft-intel-and-johnson-controls-top-100-best-corporate-citizens-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/expanding-economy-hot-summer-push-u-s-emissions-up-3-2-in-2010/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/expanding-economy-hot-summer-push-u-s-emissions-up-3-2-in-2010/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:30:12 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74409 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 warmer summer weather, the EPA said. Energy consumption rose across all economic sectors in 2010, and total emissions of the six main greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/expanding-economy-hot-summer-push-u-s-emissions-up-3-2-in-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/13/policy-enforcement-briefing-eu-aviation-law-carbon-permits-ghg-targets-gulf-sheen/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/13/policy-enforcement-briefing-eu-aviation-law-carbon-permits-ghg-targets-gulf-sheen/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:10:08 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74180 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 law on carbon emissions a deal-breaker for global climate talks. and joined China in barring its carriers from participation. The European Commission president hinted that the EU could to drop [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/13/policy-enforcement-briefing-eu-aviation-law-carbon-permits-ghg-targets-gulf-sheen/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/03/honeywell-to-destroy-ozone-depleting-refrigerants-for-125000-tons-of-carbon-credits/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/03/honeywell-to-destroy-ozone-depleting-refrigerants-for-125000-tons-of-carbon-credits/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:57:12 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73411 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 company announced. The company said it has destroyed more than 27,000 pounds of CFC-11, a chlorofluorocarbon refrigerant with one of the highest ozone-depleting potentials, and it plans to destroy its [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/03/honeywell-to-destroy-ozone-depleting-refrigerants-for-125000-tons-of-carbon-credits/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/02/policy-enforcement-briefing-shell-blocks-activists-transportation-bill-strips-bp-funds-allotment-iran-sanctions-great-lakes-wind/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/02/policy-enforcement-briefing-shell-blocks-activists-transportation-bill-strips-bp-funds-allotment-iran-sanctions-great-lakes-wind/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:00:35 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73295 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 from interfering with operations on two Arctic drillships through March. The new order, which runs through the end of October, applies to Greenpeace activists targeting those drillships as well as [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/02/policy-enforcement-briefing-shell-blocks-activists-transportation-bill-strips-bp-funds-allotment-iran-sanctions-great-lakes-wind/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/29/less-than-half-of-uk-businesses-plan-for-climate-change-adaptation-cdp-finds/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/29/less-than-half-of-uk-businesses-plan-for-climate-change-adaptation-cdp-finds/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:25:22 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73059 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 precipitation extremes and droughts, change in temperature extremes or induced changes in natural resources. However, only 46 percent of surveyed FTSE 100 companies say they have climate adaptation plans in [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/29/less-than-half-of-uk-businesses-plan-for-climate-change-adaptation-cdp-finds/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/28/policy-enforcement-briefing-indian-point-epa-overruled-on-coal-uk-delays-ghg-reporting-law/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/28/policy-enforcement-briefing-indian-point-epa-overruled-on-coal-uk-delays-ghg-reporting-law/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:40:56 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=72958 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 for a transformer explosion at its Unit 2 reactor that spilled oil into the Hudson River in November 2010. The penalty comes as the state agency and Entergy negotiate whether [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/28/policy-enforcement-briefing-indian-point-epa-overruled-on-coal-uk-delays-ghg-reporting-law/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-air-standards-supreme-court-ruling-eu-ets-chevron-keystone-fast-track/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-air-standards-supreme-court-ruling-eu-ets-chevron-keystone-fast-track/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:49:12 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=72556 The EPA is retaining the existing secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for NOx and SOx. The agency said that though the standards do not provide adequate protection from harmful deposition-related effects on plants, soil, water and wildlife, levels of NOx and SOx in the air have fallen by more than 50 percent and [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/23/policy-enforcement-briefing-air-standards-supreme-court-ruling-eu-ets-chevron-keystone-fast-track/feed/ 0