http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/oasis-calls-on-customers-to-audit-its-paper-sustainability/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/oasis-calls-on-customers-to-audit-its-paper-sustainability/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:28:32 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69648 Oasis Brands has invited leading U.S. grocery chains to audit its Indonesia-sourced tissue products, including materials sourced from Asia Pulp & Paper. In a letter to grocery retailers, Oasis Brands said the offer of an independent audit was fully supported by APP, its major supplier in Indonesia. Oasis CEO Philip Rundle said the time has [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/oasis-calls-on-customers-to-audit-its-paper-sustainability/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/colgate-sustainability-report-goals-met-for-ghgs-water-use-energy-cod/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/colgate-sustainability-report-goals-met-for-ghgs-water-use-energy-cod/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:51:29 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69552 Colgate-Palmolive beat goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and water use by five and 25 percent from 2002 to 2010, achieving reductions of 7.8 percent and 34.6 percent respectively, according to its 2011 sustainability report. In that time the company also beat a five percent energy reduction goal, cutting energy use by 8.6 percent, and [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/colgate-sustainability-report-goals-met-for-ghgs-water-use-energy-cod/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/carbon-disclosure-raises-stock-prices-study-finds/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/carbon-disclosure-raises-stock-prices-study-finds/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:30:55 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69577 Companies that voluntarily issue press releases disclosing their carbon emission information see their stock prices rise significantly in the following days, according to a University of California study. Going Green: Market Reaction to CSR Newswire Releases, by Paul Griffin of UC Davis and Yuan Sun of UC Berkeley, used archives of the Corporate Social Responsibility [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/07/carbon-disclosure-raises-stock-prices-study-finds/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/event-organizers-must-take-action-oracle-vp-says/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/event-organizers-must-take-action-oracle-vp-says/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:05:57 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69495 The event industry is the second-biggest generator of waste in the U.S. and event organizers must make a start, however small, to address their environmental impacts, according to the vice president of marketing at Oracle. Paul Salinger, who is also president of the board of directors of the Green Meeting Industry Council, told BizBash that [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/event-organizers-must-take-action-oracle-vp-says/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/office-depot-recycling-earnings-up-37-co2-down-11/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/office-depot-recycling-earnings-up-37-co2-down-11/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:58:42 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69262 In 2010 Office Depot earned $2.43 million from recycling, up 37% from 2009, according to its 2011 Corporate Citizenship Report. The company, which has a goal of earning more money from product recycling than it spends on sending waste to landfills, also reduced waste costs by 4 percent to $3.81 million. In 2010, Office Depot [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/01/office-depot-recycling-earnings-up-37-co2-down-11/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/un-documents-propose-mandatory-sustainability-reporting/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/un-documents-propose-mandatory-sustainability-reporting/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:30:19 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69216 Two influential documents – the Rio+20 negotiating text and the recommendations of the U.N. secretary general’s High Level Panel on Global Sustainability – both propose tighter sustainability reporting requirements for businesses, according to Chatham House fellow Paul Hohnen, writing in the Guardian. In “Resilient People, Resilient Planet – A Future Worth Choosing,” published yesterday, the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/un-documents-propose-mandatory-sustainability-reporting/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/sodexo-client-sustainability-tool-starting-at-1000-sites-this-year/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/sodexo-client-sustainability-tool-starting-at-1000-sites-this-year/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:20:09 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69210 Sodexo plans to roll out a sustainability dashboard to 1,000 client sites by October, to help clients establish baselines, prioritize initiatives, and track improvement. The $16 billion food and facilities management company officially launched its Sustainability Management and Reporting Tool (SMART) this month, after piloting the dashboard at 22 locations across the U.S. last year. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/31/sodexo-client-sustainability-tool-starting-at-1000-sites-this-year/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:37:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69116 Tesco, the U.K.’s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all 70,000 of its products. Tesco will no longer use the Carbon Trust labels on its products, saying that the program is too expensive and time-consuming, The Grocer reports. The supermarket chain said the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/30/tesco-quits-carbon-labeling/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/gri-launches-event-sustainability-guidance/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/gri-launches-event-sustainability-guidance/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:34:11 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69008 The Global Reporting Initiative has published sustainability guidance for events, from business meetings to cultural festivals, and the organizers of this year’s Olympics say they’ll be using the guidelines to help meet their environmental goals. The GRI said the Event Organizers Sector Supplement (EOSS) is suitable for all types and sizes of events, including conferences, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/26/gri-launches-event-sustainability-guidance/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/cdp-to-intensity-environmental-accounting-work-after-1-5m-prize-win/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/cdp-to-intensity-environmental-accounting-work-after-1-5m-prize-win/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:56:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68519 The Carbon Disclosure Project will expand its work to set accounting standards for environmental disclosure, after winning the $1.5 million Zayed Future Energy Prize in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Executive chairman Paul Dickinson told BusinessGreen that winning the prize will also allow the organization to expand its water disclosure initiative and its reporting program for major [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/18/cdp-to-intensity-environmental-accounting-work-after-1-5m-prize-win/feed/ 0