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Vodafone Calls For 50% Reduction In Its Global Warming Emissions

Vodafone Group has announced that it will cut its CO2 emission by 50 percent by the year 2020 through increased energy ...

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Green Data Center Adoption Stalls

Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of ...

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National Grid Sets 80% GHG Reduction Goal, Adopts Carbon Budgets

National Grid is increasing its target of reducing company-wide greenhouse gas emissions from 60 percent to 80 percent by ...

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Volvo Tests Hybrid Garbage Trucks

Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells. The hybrid ...

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Hilton Efficiency Program Saves $9 Million

Hilton Hotels says it has delivered energy savings of over 10 percent last year across more than 80 hotels ...

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No Emissions Goal At Major Economics Meeting

No fixed targets were set at the two-day Major Economies Meetings in Paris which brought together delegates from 16 ...

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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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