Finance & Reporting
Texas Instruments Sustainability Report: Normalized Emissions Jump 23%
Technology firm Texas Instruments' emissions normalized on a per-chip basis rose 23 percent year-on-year amid a host of other disappointing environmental figures, according to its ...
ExxonMobil, Chevron Investors Call For Fracking Risk Disclosures
Chevron and ExxonMobil shareholders have filed proposals asking the companies to disclose risks to their operations and finances from hydraulic fracturing.
Shareholder advocacy group As You ...
Goldman Sachs to Pump $40bn into Clean Energy
Goldman Sachs Group plans to invest $40 billion over the next 10 years into renewable energy, an area ...
Alcoa Sustainability Report: 4.5% Drop in Water Intensity, but Landfilling up 10%
Last year saw aluminum products supplier Alcoa cut its normalized water use by 4.5 percent from 2010 levels, but increase the amount of waste it ...
Financing Goes ‘Green’
Energy prices and consumption seem to be on an upward trajectory. In fact, energy costs have steadily risen over the last decade and ...
Kimberly-Clark Sustainability Report: 99.9% of Virgin Fiber From Certified Sources
Kimberly-Clark, the company behind Kleenex, Scott and Huggies, has made significant progress on some of its 2015 sustainability goals, including aiming to source 100 percent ...
O2 Measures Lifecycle of Mobile Voice, Data Emissions
O2 has measured the greenhouse gas emissions embedded throughout the entire lifecycle of its voice and data services. The UK-based telecom ...
Intel Sustainability Report: Tech Giant Commits to 10% GHG Cut
Intel has pledged to reduce its direct greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on a per-chip basis by 2020 compared to 2010 levels, and announced ...
Apple Data Center to be 100% Powered by Renewable Energy
Apple said it will power its 500,000-square-foot data center in Maiden, N.C., entirely with renewable energy by the end of the year.
The announcement, which ...
Ericsson Sustainability Report: Direct Carbon Intensity Drops 6%
Direct emissions from telecommunications firm Ericsson's in-house activities totaled around 0.84 Mtonnes during 2011. This corresponds to a six percent reduction in direct emissions intensity ...
Hilton, BSR Launch Sustainable Procurement Center
Hilton Worldwide and sustainability consultants BSR have launched a three-year initiative to help procurement professionals make more informed purchasing decisions based on the ...
CVS Sustainability Report: Carbon Intensity Drops 3.9%
Pharmacy chain CVS Caremark's absolute CO2 emissions rose 1.2 percent from 2010 to 2011, but when rationalized against the square feet of retail space the ...
Coca Cola Enterprises Sustainability Report: Carbon Emissions Down 8.5%
Coca Cola Enterprises decreased its carbon footprint by 8.5 percent from 2010 to 2011, while increasing production volume by 3.5 percent, according to the company's ...
AASHE Sustainability Review: Green-Job Training ‘Skyrocketed’ in 2011
Nearly 60 percent of all new higher-education programs or training opportunities in 2011 focused on renewable energy and green careers, with $543 million recorded toward the ...
AEP Sustainability Report: Carbon Emissions Rise 1.5%, Revenues up 4.8%
American Electric Power's total CO2 emissions rose just shy of 1.5 percent from 2010 to 2011, while revenues rose 4.8 percent over that time period, ...
Adidas Carbon Tool Snafu Keeps Data out of Sustainability Report
Adidas missed the chance to include energy, water and carbon metrics in its 2011 sustainability report because of data deviations caused by a new environmental ...
Diageo Stops Heartland Donations in Wake of Unabomber Billboard
Drink giant Diageo says it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that denies global warming, the Guardian reports, following ...
Free Online Tool Helps Manufacturers Assess Sustainability Efforts
UL Environment, the environmental services unit of Underwriters Laboratories, has launched a free web-based tool to help manufacturers assess their corporate sustainability efforts.
The ...
Nike Sustainability Report: Aims for 20% CO2, 15% Water, 10% Waste Cuts by 2015
Nike has committed itself to a 20 percent reduction in CO2 emissions per unit, a 15 percent improvement in water use per unit of production ...
Abbott Sustainability Report: Three 2015 Targets Met Four Years Early
Global health care company Abbott Laboratories reached its 2015 goals for carbon dioxide emissions, water intake and waste output in 2011, while increasing year-on-year sales ...
