Environmental Reporting

Environmental reporting includes articles about environmental and sustainability reporting and requirements, provides research from environmental regulators such as the EPA, and discusses environmental reporting software to perform reporting tasks such as carbon accounting software.

Oracle VP Urges Event Organizers to Take Action

Oracle VP Urges Event Organizers to Take ActionThe 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 ...

February 6, 2012

EL Pro Office Depot Recycling Earnings up 37%; CO2 Down 11%

Office Depot Recycling Earnings up 37%; CO2 Down 11%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 ...

February 1, 2012

UN Documents Propose Mandatory Sustainability Reporting

UN Documents Propose Mandatory Sustainability ReportingTwo 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 ...

January 31, 2012

Sodexo Client Sustainability Tool Starting at 1,000 Sites this Year

Sodexo Client Sustainability Tool Starting at 1,000 Sites this YearSodexo 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 ...

January 31, 2012

Tesco Quits Carbon Labeling

Tesco Quits Carbon LabelingTesco, the U.K.'s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all ...

January 30, 2012

GRI Launches Event Sustainability Guidance

GRI Launches Event Sustainability GuidanceThe Global Reporting Initiative has published sustainability guidance for events, from business meetings to cultural festivals, and the organizers of this year’s Olympics say ...

January 26, 2012

CDP to Intensity Environmental Accounting Work After $1.5m Prize Win

CDP to Intensity Environmental Accounting Work After $1.5m Prize WinThe 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 ...

January 18, 2012

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: Apple Supply Chain Audits, Council for Responsible Sports, e-Stewards

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Apple Supply Chain Audits, Council for Responsible Sports, e-StewardsApple, Inc. released information on 229 supply-chain audits of compliance with health, safety and environmental standards, along with the names of its suppliers and manufacturing ...

January 17, 2012

EL Pro Apple Releases Supplier List, as NGOs Praise Chinese Transparency Progress

Apple Releases Supplier List, as NGOs Praise Chinese Transparency ProgressThe National Resources Defense Council and Beijing-based NGO the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs have said China is making steady progress on ...

January 17, 2012

EPA Reveals Biggest GHG Emitters

EPA Reveals Biggest GHG EmittersThe top three GHG emitters in the country are all power plants owned by Southern Company, according to data just released by the ...

January 12, 2012

EL Pro Intuit Cuts Electricity Per Dollar Revenue, Absolute Consumption Rises

Intuit Cuts Electricity Per Dollar Revenue, Absolute Consumption RisesIntuit has steadily improved its electricity usage relative to revenue since 2007, but its absolute electricity usage has increased since FY08, according to the ...

January 11, 2012

Brazilian Stock Exchange Urges Sustainability Reporting

Brazilian Stock Exchange Urges Sustainability ReportingThe Brazilian stock exchange, BM&FBOVESPA, has recommended that its listed companies either publish sustainability reports or explain why they do not. BM&FBOVESPA says the aims of ...

January 10, 2012

Locus, ChemAdvisor Combine Chemical Database and Environmental ePortal

Locus, ChemAdvisor Combine Chemical Database and Environmental ePortalChemAdvisor's chemical regulatory database will be offered as a module within Locus Technologies' ePortal, the two environmental software companies have announced. Locus president and CEO ...

January 10, 2012

More Firms Appointing Lead Corporate Responsibility Role

More Firms Appointing Lead Corporate Responsibility RoleThe proportion of organizations with a lead role overseeing corporate responsibility shot up to 62 percent in 2011, versus 42 percent in ...

January 10, 2012

Teck American, Dow Were Top Toxics Emitters in 2010

Teck American, Dow Were Top Toxics Emitters in 2010Teck American, Dow Chemical and Incobrasa Industires were the companies that reported generating the largest quantities of toxic chemicals in production-related waste, according ...

January 6, 2012

Carbon Disclosure Project Employs WCI App; Tendril Seeks Smart Grid Developers

Carbon Disclosure Project Employs WCI App; Tendril Seeks Smart Grid DevelopersThe Carbon Disclosure Project is using WCI Consulting's Green Analytics content in combination with cloud-based business intelligence software from SAP, to analyze and ...

January 5, 2012

Most Read Reporting and Finance Stories of 2011

Most Read Reporting and Finance Stories of 2011 Every day this week we'll be looking at a different aspect of environmental and sustainability management and counting down the top stories that grabbed ...

December 29, 2011

EL Pro SC Johnson Details Scope 3 Emissions, Hits Renewables Goal

SC Johnson Details Scope 3 Emissions, Hits Renewables GoalThe greatest part of SC Johnson's Scope 3 emissions, 38 percent, comes from customer use of its products, according to the company’s ...

December 29, 2011

Energy Management Software for Aflac, Alcatel-Lucent; Polaris 3D Lighting Software Upgrade

Energy Management Software for Aflac, Alcatel-Lucent; Polaris 3D Lighting Software UpgradeSupplemental insurance provider Aflac has chosen Hara's energy management and sustainability software, Hara said. The insurance provider is looking to improve data accuracy for sustainability ...

December 19, 2011

Document Management Systems Can Fill EHS Needs, Analyst Says

Document Management Systems Can Fill EHS Needs, Analyst SaysMid-sized and small companies can often use document management systems to accomplish the same results they would get out of environmental, health and safety ...

November 29, 2011