Environmental & Sustainability Events
Environmental and sustainability includes events such as conferences, summits and conventions including UN Climate Change Conferences. These events are gathering places for industries, financial types, government leaders and other concerned organizations to discuss advances and solutions to environmental and sustainability issues. In addition, we also share information that come out of the events.
Organizational Change: The Swiss Army Knife of Sustainability
On December 8, 2011, TSSS attendees heard from an industry veteran who has been in the field of corporate sustainability for ...
GRI Launches Event Sustainability Guidance
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 ...
Engaging Shareholders, Suppliers and Consumers in the Sustainability Industry
On November 1st, over 100 people gathered for the Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series event, “Engage with the Game Changers”. Three top ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17 Durban, SolarWorld, Better Buildings Challenge, Boiler MACT
Durban: U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres remains hopeful that countries can get past the years of gridlock to reach fresh, binding commitments to GHG reductions, Reuters ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17-Durban, EU Aviation Regulation, Boiler MACT, Clean Air Act
Durban: The draft plan for the United Nations Green Climate Fund - a financing system that would deliver $100 billion a year in aid to developing ...
Chicago Airports Plan Solar, Alternative Fueling, Composting
The Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) announced a series of sustainability initiatives at the 2011 Airports Going Green conference in Chicago, including plans for a ...
Best Practices: Optimizing Energy and Sustainability Strategies
Join Environmental Leader for a webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST that will cover the business drivers ...
Companies Announce Earth Day Promotions
Earth day promotions are flooding our inbox. Here are some that caught our attention.
Electronics manufacturer LG is backing the “Great American Cleanup”. Last year the country recycled 7.2 million pounds of consumer electronics during the ...
Best Practices Webinar – Energy and Environmental Management
The list of environmental issues for businesses to manage seems endless. Companies must identify and prioritize ways to tackle energy, carbon, water and waste, ...
UN Climate Conference (COP 16) Wrap up and What to Watch in 2011
This year’s Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place between ...
Boeing’s VP EHS Discusses Sustainability, Corporate Strategy
At NAEM's 2010 conference, Boeing's Mary Armstrong, VP of EHS, discussed the connection ...
A Conversation with HP: Post COP16 and Prop23
Valerie Davis, president of Green Canary Sustainability Consulting and CEO of EnviroMedia Social Marketing caught up with HP on the final night ...
Leveraging Manufacturing for a Sustainable World
I recently attended a conference on high performance manufacturing in Gifu, Japan, focusing on a variety of technical advances ...
US Navy, Marines Discuss Climate, Energy Efficiency at COP16
OneClimate was joined at the COP16 UN Climate Talks by Rear Admiral David Titley, of the US Navy Task Force on ...
At COP16, Business Sounds Note of Optimism
Ministerial-level talks began at the COP16 climate summit yesterday amid widespread pessimism about the chances for a binding agreement between governments, but some notes of ...
Why Cancun is the Place to Be… for Energy Innovation
A year ago, the world was hopeful that a global agreement would come out of the COP15 sessions in Copenhagen. With the United ...
COP 16 End Of Week 1 Press Briefing
During a press conference at the end of the first week of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, UNFCCC ...
COP 16 Campaign May Delay Airline Industry GHG Restrictions
CANCÚN — The global airline industry is using political and marketing muscle to push U.N. leaders to establish a sectoral approach to reduce greenhouse gas ...
Why Dow Chemical is at COP 16
Doug May, the Vice President of Energy and Climate Change at Dow Chemical ...
Businesses Bring the Climate-Change Fight to COP16
Focusing on the role of business in developing solutions to climate change, a group of business, finance and government leaders is launching its inaugural ...
