Finance & Reporting
Making the Financial Case for Green Initiatives
For many green executives the biggest barrier to the adoption of sustainability initiatives remains the reluctance of financial directors to approve ...
Anvil Cuts Waste 25%, But GHGs Rise 32%
Anvil Knitwear reduced its waste to landfill by 25 percent in 2010, but GHG emissions rose 32 percent, according to its 2011 CSR Progress ...
Hasbro to Cut PVC from Packaging; Beats 10% GHG Goal
Hasbro will eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from all new core toy and game packaging beginning in 2013, the company has announced, as it launches ...
P2 Buys Beyond Compliance, Expands Software Offering
P2 Energy Solutions has added regulatory and compliance software to its offerings with the purchase of Beyond Compliance, a provider of automated compliance ...
Cisco Behind on GHG Goal for 2012
Cisco is slipping in its quest to reduce scope 1, scope 2 and business air travel GHG emissions by 25 percent by 2012, with ...
Frito-Lay Asks Town for $600k to Aid Water Efficiency, Automation
Frito-Lay is asking the town of Vancouver, Wash., for $585,000 in water bill credits over three years, to enable its local plant to make ...
Carbon Forecast Slashed; UN Seeks CDM Improvements
Point Carbon has slashed its carbon prices forecast for the third phase of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme by 10 euros per ton, ...
Woolworths Cuts CO2 Intensity 8% as Carbon Tax Looms
Woolworths Limited achieved a carbon intensity of 881 tons of CO2e per $m EBIT in 2011, eight percent below the 2010 level of 956 ...
Financing a Green Energy Future in North America
A panel on "Financing a Green Energy Future in North America," which took place at the 2011 UNEP FI Global Roundtable ...
North Face Cuts GHGs 7.5%
The North Face reduced its GHG emissions by 7.5 percent in 2010, from 0.303 MT to 0.281 MT CO2e per thousand units sold, ...
NYSE, Bloomberg Launch 3 Clean Energy Indices
NYSE Euronext and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have launched three regionally-focused clean energy stock indices covering the Americas (ticker NBAMCEUP), the Europe, Middle East ...
Major Gaffes and Gaps Plague CSR Reports, Study Finds
Incorrect and irrelevant data, unsubstantiated figures and major gaps abound in company CSR reports, according to a forthcoming study from the U.K.’s University ...
Analyst: U.S. Tariffs, Solar Price Rises ‘Likely’
As the Chinese solar power industry considers filing a retaliatory trade case against the U.S., IDC research manager in renewable energy Jay Holman said ...
Starbucks, Alcoa Join Nasdaq Sustainability Index; Citi, JPMorgan Dropped
Alcoa, Caterpillar, Diageo, Fluor, Ingersoll-Rand, Reed Elsevier and Starbucks have been added to the Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index, while Advanced Micro Devices, ...
Enterprise Cuts Energy Use 6.7%, on Average
Enterprise Holdings achieved an average 6.7 percent same-store energy reduction in 2011, putting it ahead of a target of a 20 percent reduction by ...
Put a Price on Industrial Water Use, Report Urges Government
A federal advisory body has recommended that the Canadian government put a price on water used by industry, the Toronto Star reports.
In ...
Efficiency Company BlueStar Buys TruBrite
BlueStar Energy Solutions, a provider of energy efficiency and demand response services, has acquired TruBrite Energy Management. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The acquisition builds upon ...
Water Disclosure Up, But Board Oversight Still Low, CDP Says
Only 57 percent of organizations report board-level oversight of water policies, strategies or plans, compared with 94 percent for climate change, according to ...
Puma Ups Environmental P&L by $69m
Puma has updated its Environmental Profit and Loss account to include 51 million euros ($69 million) resulting from land use, air pollution ...
Tiffany Details Diamond, Metals Purchasing
Tiffany & Co. last year bought over 80 percent of its serialized diamonds either directly from a mine, or from a supplier that only ...
