Finance & Reporting
Airline Sustainability Reports Need Improvement, PwC Says
Southwest Airlines, UPS, Delta, Air France KLM, Iberia, LAN Airlines and Lufthansa produced the best sustainability reports by airlines last year, according to a ...
Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005
Heinz has cut its production of solid waste per unit of production by 45.6 percent since 2005, according to the company’s 2011 Corporate Social ...
Calif., Provinces Push Regional Cap and Trade; In Europe, Carbon Slump Continues
The Western Climate Initiative, a coalition of U.S. states and Canadian provinces seeking to create a regional carbon trading program, has created a ...
Database Will Benchmark Thousands of Reports, GRI Says
Companies will be able to benchmark their sustainability data against information from thousands of other firms, using a database just launched by the Global ...
Xerox Cuts Water Use 7% in One Year
Xerox brought its water consumption down seven percent in 2010, compared to 2009 levels, according to its sixth Global Citizenship Report and 2011 Environmental, ...
US Firms Put CSR Communication Before Performance, KPMG Says
U.S. companies are "scratching the surface" of corporate responsibility, as a whole concentrating on communication more than performance, according to a global survey ...
How GHG Protocol Drives Globally Consistent Accounting
Representatives from Walmart, the Carbon Disclosure Project, The Sustainability Consortium and ...
The Business Case for Product and Value Chain Management
A World Resources Institute panel discussion with business leaders about the new GHG Protocol Product Standard and Corporate Value Chain (Scope ...
EPA, Other Agencies Detail their Own Environmental Progress
The EPA reduced its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 79.5 percent between FY 2008 and FY 2010, according to the ...
NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2
NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.'s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles ...
Chrysler Invests $35m In Emissions Cuts, Conservation
Chrysler Group invested more than $35 million toward reducing facility emissions and enhancing resource conservation in 2010, according to its first sustainability report.
The group, ...
Energy Efficiency Financing ‘Has $150bn Potential’; Report Compares Commercial Opt-Out Programs
Energy efficiency financing has the potential to jump from $20 billion to $150 billion over the next ten years, according to a report ...
Bombardier Cuts Energy, GHGs 3 Percent
Bombardier's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions each fell by three percent over FY 2011, according to the company's 2011 CSR Overview.
Energy consumption fell ...
Calif. Board Finalizes Cap and Trade
The California Air Resources Board yesterday gave its final approval to the state's cap-and-trade system, which sets limits on carbon emissions starting next year.
CARB ...
Fluor Cuts Energy 10.3m kWh, But Report Short on Data
Fluor, the $20.8 billion engineering, construction, procurement and maintenance company, reduced energy use in its offices by 1.3 kWh per square foot last year, ...
CDP Launches Supplier Emissions Scoring
The Carbon Disclosure Project and FirstCarbon Solutions have launched an initiative to score the CDP Supply Chain program, with performance scores introduced for the ...
Fujitsu Discusses Sustainability Goals
Alison Rowe, Global Executive Director Sustainability for Fujitsu, interviewed about the results of the ICT Sustainability: Global Benchmark Report 2011.
Carbon-Neutral Banks ‘Aren’t Greener’
Banks are fooling investors and the public with false claims of carbon neutrality, according to a report from carbon data publishing site Ecodesk.
In the ...
Solar Briefing: Bank of America, GE, Air Products, SunPower
Here's the latest solar industry news emerging out of the Solar Power International conference in Dallas, and some related items:
The U.S. solar industry ...
Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, Waste
Clorox has released its first integrated financial, environmental, social and governance report, which shows that energy consumption fell from 1.81 to 1.78 MWh ...
