Finance & Reporting

Airline Sustainability Reports Need Improvement, PwC Says

Airline Sustainability Reports Need Improvement, PwC SaysSouthwest Airlines, UPS, Delta, Air France KLM, Iberia, LAN Airlines and Lufthansa produced the best sustainability reports by airlines last year, according to a ...

November 15, 2011

EL Pro Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005

Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005Heinz 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 ...

November 15, 2011

Calif., Provinces Push Regional Cap and Trade; In Europe, Carbon Slump Continues

Calif., Provinces Push Regional Cap and Trade; In Europe, Carbon Slump ContinuesThe Western Climate Initiative, a coalition of U.S. states and Canadian provinces seeking to create a regional carbon trading program, has created a ...

November 14, 2011

Database Will Benchmark Thousands of Reports, GRI Says

Database Will Benchmark Thousands of Reports, GRI SaysCompanies will be able to benchmark their sustainability data against information from thousands of other firms, using a database just launched by the Global ...

November 11, 2011

EL Pro Xerox Cuts Water Use 7% in One Year

Xerox Cuts Water Use 7% in One YearXerox brought its water consumption down seven percent in 2010, compared to 2009 levels, according to its sixth Global Citizenship Report and 2011 Environmental, ...

November 8, 2011

US Firms Put CSR Communication Before Performance, KPMG Says

US Firms Put CSR Communication Before Performance, KPMG SaysU.S. companies are "scratching the surface" of corporate responsibility, as a whole concentrating on communication more than performance, according to a global survey ...

November 8, 2011

How GHG Protocol Drives Globally Consistent Accounting

How GHG Protocol Drives Globally Consistent AccountingRepresentatives from Walmart, the Carbon Disclosure Project, The Sustainability Consortium and ...

November 7, 2011

The Business Case for Product and Value Chain Management

The Business Case for Product and Value Chain ManagementA World Resources Institute panel discussion with business leaders about the new GHG Protocol Product Standard and Corporate Value Chain (Scope ...

November 4, 2011

EPA, Other Agencies Detail their Own Environmental Progress

EPA, Other Agencies Detail their Own Environmental ProgressThe EPA reduced its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 79.5 percent between FY 2008 and FY 2010, according to the ...

November 1, 2011

EL Pro NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2

NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2NHS 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 ...

October 31, 2011

Chrysler Invests $35m In Emissions Cuts, Conservation

Chrysler Invests $35m In Emissions Cuts, ConservationChrysler Group invested more than $35 million toward reducing facility emissions and enhancing resource conservation in 2010, according to its first sustainability report. The group, ...

October 28, 2011

Energy Efficiency Financing ‘Has $150bn Potential’; Report Compares Commercial Opt-Out Programs

Energy Efficiency Financing ‘Has $150bn Potential’; Report Compares Commercial Opt-Out ProgramsEnergy efficiency financing has the potential to jump from $20 billion to $150 billion over the next ten years, according to a report ...

October 27, 2011

EL Pro Bombardier Cuts Energy, GHGs 3 Percent

Bombardier Cuts Energy, GHGs 3 PercentBombardier'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 ...

October 26, 2011

Calif. Board Finalizes Cap and Trade

Calif. Board Finalizes Cap and TradeThe 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 ...

October 21, 2011

EL Pro Fluor Cuts Energy 10.3m kWh, But Report Short on Data

Fluor Cuts Energy 10.3m kWh, But Report Short on DataFluor, 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, ...

October 20, 2011

CDP Launches Supplier Emissions Scoring

CDP Launches Supplier Emissions ScoringThe Carbon Disclosure Project and FirstCarbon Solutions have launched an initiative to score the CDP Supply Chain program, with performance scores introduced for the ...

October 20, 2011

Fujitsu Discusses Sustainability Goals

Fujitsu Discusses Sustainability Goals Alison Rowe, Global Executive Director Sustainability for Fujitsu, interviewed about the results of the ICT Sustainability: Global Benchmark Report 2011.

October 19, 2011

Carbon-Neutral Banks ‘Aren’t Greener’

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 ...

October 19, 2011

Solar Briefing: Bank of America, GE, Air Products, SunPower

Solar Briefing: Bank of America, GE, Air Products, SunPowerHere'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 ...

October 18, 2011

EL Pro Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, Waste

Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, WasteClorox has released its first integrated financial, environmental, social and governance report, which shows that energy consumption fell from 1.81 to 1.78 MWh ...

October 17, 2011