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Carbon Labels On Tesco Products Next Month

Carbon labels will be tested on Tesco-brand products next month, The Guardian reports. The retailer will put carbon ...

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Deutsche Post Plans To Cut CO2 Emissions 30% By 2020

Deutsche Post World Net plans to reduce its carbon footprint 30 percent by 2020. DHL's parent says it's the ...

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McDonald’s Trims Trips To The Landfill

McDonald's has been running a trial program at 11 Sheffield, UK restaurants to save on the rising cost of ...

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Shell Will Freeze EU Investments Over Emissions Permits

Royal Dutch Shell says it will stop investing in Europe if utilities are forced to pay for emissions permits ...

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Activist Group Uncovers ‘Corporate Spy’

UK anti-aviation group Plane Stupid has uncovered what it says is a corporate spy, an "activist" who in ...

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UK Pushes For Mandatory Emissions Reporting

A new amendment added to the UK's Climate Change Bill will make it mandatory for companies whose stock ...

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Orly Airport Taps Into Geothermal

Orly Airport in France is digging two one-mile deep shafts to tap into underground hot water geysers, AHN ...

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How to Navigate the Environmental Media - Part 2

Part Two - Battle for the Skies Virgin America's Richard Branson retreated to his own island in the Caribbean three weekends ago with ...

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Ford To Install Third Wind Turbine At UK Plant

Ford is adding a third wind turbine at its Dagenham Diesel Centre in the UK to power the installation ...

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Swiss Re Buys ERCs In 2008 To Go Carbon Neutral Since 2003

Earlier this year, Swiss Re bought and decommissioned emission reduction certificates equivalent to 230,000 tons of CO2 emissions, which ...

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Lego Releases Sustainability Report, Misses Efficiency Target

The Lego Group has released its 2007 sustainability report (PDF). Overall, Lego's five percent efficiency target ...

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JPMorgan Buys Carbon Offset Company ClimateCare

JPMorgan has acquired Climate Care, a UK carbon offset company. The company will invest in large-scale carbon ...

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Norway’s Carbon Neutral Pledge Lacks Meaningful Emissions Cuts

Not too long ago, Norway announced that it would be carbon neutral by 2030. Now, it's becoming apparent that ...

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BP Tops Greenpeace In Green Brands Survey

Marks and Spencer is the brand with the most green credentials, followed closely by Innocent in second place and ...

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Green Groups Get Wrist Slap Over Misleading Ads

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has told two environmental agencies, Airport Watch and enoughsenough, to alter an ad campaign ...

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BT Says CSR Week A Big Success

BT held its fourth CSR week earlier this month. Adrian Hosford, BT's director of corporate responsibility, said that ...

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Lightweight Wine Bottles Better For The Environment

Bottling wine in lightweight bottles can significantly reduce CO2 emissions, according to a report by the Waste & ...

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Barclays To Cut Data Center Energy Use With HP Tech

Barclays will introduce HP's Dynamic Smart Cooling technology to its new data center in Gloucester, U.K. HP's technology is part of ...

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EU To U.S. Airlines: Buy Carbon Credits Or Face Fewer Flights

U.S. airlines must join the EU emissions trading scheme or an equivalent system in the U.S. or they could ...

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UK Bans Cotton USA Ad Over Sustainability Claim

Last week, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority banned (read ASA Adjudication) a campaign for Cotton USA ...

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