http://www.environmentalleader.com The Executive's Daily Green Briefing Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/20/cdp-launches-water-disclosure-project/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/20/cdp-launches-water-disclosure-project/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:41:20 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27678 The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has launched a global water disclosure project to help businesses and institutional investors understand the risks and opportunities associated with water scarcity and other water-related issues, including greater demand for water, shrinking glaciers and changing precipitation patterns that are likely to result in drought and flooding. The organization also released [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/20/cdp-launches-water-disclosure-project/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/canada-delays-ghg-emissions-regs-russia-ups-emissions-cuts/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/canada-delays-ghg-emissions-regs-russia-ups-emissions-cuts/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:01:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27594 Add Canada to a growing list of countries that want to wait until a global climate deal is struck and the United States decides how it will regulate emissions before they regulate their own greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier this week, New Zealand made a similar announcement. There also appears to be some widespread discussion over [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/canada-delays-ghg-emissions-regs-russia-ups-emissions-cuts/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/climate-change-doubter-fox-adopting-energy-efficiency-environmental-management/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/climate-change-doubter-fox-adopting-energy-efficiency-environmental-management/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:47:30 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27596 News Corp. – owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other media properties – is adding software to help manage its environmental impact and energy use. News Corp. is using software from Hara Environmental and Energy Management to begin collecting energy and emissions information from its hundred-plus facilities worldwide, according to a press [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/climate-change-doubter-fox-adopting-energy-efficiency-environmental-management/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/rising-sea-levels-would-hit-u-s-east-coast-hardest/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/rising-sea-levels-would-hit-u-s-east-coast-hardest/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:48:30 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27582 Miami would become an island city – and Miami Beach an underwater reef – if climate change projections of a one-meter rise in sea levels by century’s end hold true. Clean Air-Cool Planet presented new climate change models to Senate staffers Nov. 19. The projections are predicated on a one-meter rise in sea level caused by [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/19/rising-sea-levels-would-hit-u-s-east-coast-hardest/feed/ 3 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/u-s-china-partner-on-renewable-energy-energy-efficiency/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/u-s-china-partner-on-renewable-energy-energy-efficiency/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:39:17 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27527 President Barack Obama and China’s President Hu Jintao have agreed to a wide ranging package of programs and initiatives (seven in total) to strengthen the two countries’ cooperation on renewable energy and energy efficiency. One key program establishes a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, supported by $150 million in public and private funds over the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/u-s-china-partner-on-renewable-energy-energy-efficiency/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/uk-to-ease-rules-for-on-site-renewable-energy-installations/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/uk-to-ease-rules-for-on-site-renewable-energy-installations/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:38:01 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27492 Aimed at helping cut carbon emissions, the UK has proposed new planning rules that will allow home owners, offices, schools, stadiums and railway stations to install solar panels without planning permissions, reports the Telegraph. Councils will also be able to install charging stations for electric cars in public parking lots without filling out forms, according [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/uk-to-ease-rules-for-on-site-renewable-energy-installations/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/nike-tops-annual-climate-action-scores/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/nike-tops-annual-climate-action-scores/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:47:24 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27485 Nike has topped Climate Counts’ third annual corporate climate performance scorecard with 83 points (out of a possible 100) for the second year in a row. Stoneyfield Farm followed closely with 81 points. Unilever received 80 points. The climate performance scorecard ranks 90 companies in 12 sectors. The survey finds for the first time that all [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/18/nike-tops-annual-climate-action-scores/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/carbon-traders-adjust-to-new-copenhagen-expectations/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/carbon-traders-adjust-to-new-copenhagen-expectations/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:03:22 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27408 With it now practically a given that Copenhagen will yield no global climate deal, carbon traders say that a final agreement in 2010 is crucial to the vitality of the carbon offset sector. Companies that have invested in carbon offset projects in anticipation of a climate deal being struck may end up affected by the future [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/carbon-traders-adjust-to-new-copenhagen-expectations/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/16/consensus-no-climate-deal-at-copenhagen/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/16/consensus-no-climate-deal-at-copenhagen/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:52:45 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27325 The decision by some world leaders to not seek a binding climate change agreement in Copenhagen has dealt a significant setback to efforts leading up to December’s meeting, reports the Wall Street Journal. Instead, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has proposed to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders a politically binding agreement that would commit to [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/16/consensus-no-climate-deal-at-copenhagen/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/13/japan-u-s-forge-concensus-on-climate-cleantech/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/13/japan-u-s-forge-concensus-on-climate-cleantech/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:17:44 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27283 The United States and Japan will work with each other to develop renewable energy technologies and other cleantech, as well as set an example for emissions cutting, after a mutual pledge from President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. The two leaders agreed Nov. 13 for the nations to work cooperatively to slash each nation’s [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/13/japan-u-s-forge-concensus-on-climate-cleantech/feed/ 0