Finance & Reporting
Hawaiian Earns Carbon Credits Through Engine-Washing
Hawaiian Airlines has earned aviation-based carbon credits under the Verified Carbon Standard, based in part on its use of Pratt & Whitney’s EcoPower engine-washing ...
Energy Efficiency Financing ‘Ready for Commercial Real Estate Market’
Energy efficiency financing is on track to become a mainstream class of financial assets that enjoys predictability, large volumes and high standardization, according to a ...
ExxonMobil Fined $4.4m for Under-Reporting Carbon Emissions
ExxonMobil was fined £2.8 million ($4.4 million) after failing to report carbon emissions from a Scottish chemical plant, it has emerged.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency ...
Lloyds, Santander, Other Investors Call for Carbon Emissions Reductions
Banco Santander, Axa, Westpac, Lloyds Banking Group and other institutional investors worth a total of $10 trillion have called for 415 of the world’s ...
Gore Calls for Integrated Reporting, End to Quarterly Guidance
Companies should end quarterly financial reporting and start producing integrated reports, according to former vice president Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs Asset Management ...
Lilly Sustainability Report: Scope 1,2 Emissions Fall, Scope 3 Rise
Pharmaceuticals firm Eli Lilly and Company achieved a three percent reduction in its Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 to 2010, ...
3,000 Companies Expelled from UN Global Compact in 7 Years
Real estate company Georgetown Green, support services firm Kent Global Security and office furniture supplier Humanscale are the latest U.S. firms to be ...
Sempra, Xcel Lead Utility Sustainability Index
Sempra, Xcel Energy, PG&E, Edison International and Avista top a new sustainability ranking and set of stock indices for U.S. utilities, compiled by Target ...
Environmental Management, Financial Performance Go Hand in Hand
Newsweek's Green Rankings in November compared the environmental footprints, management and reporting of the 500 largest US companies, and our analysis shows that ...
Novo Nordisk Sustainability Report: CO2 Down 2%, Waste Up 61%
Novo Nordisk cut its CO2 emissions from energy consumption by two percent in 2011, from 95,000 to 93,000, while increasing sales and production, ...
Carbon Positive Launches Energy Management for Ports
Carbon Positive has launched what it calls the first program specifically to help ports adopt long-term strategies for energy and carbon management.
The maritime ...
Google Jumps to 1st Place in Cool IT Climate Rankings
Google has secured the top spot in Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard, with 53 points, up from 47 points and fourth place in the rankings' last edition.
The search giant is followed by Cisco – ...
Oasis Calls on Customers to Audit Its Paper Sustainability
Oasis Brands has invited leading U.S. grocery chains to audit its Indonesia-sourced tissue products, including materials sourced from Asia Pulp & Paper.
In a letter ...
Colgate Sustainability Report: Goals Met for GHGs, Water Use, Energy, COD
Colgate-Palmolive beat goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and water use by five and 25 percent from 2002 to 2010, achieving reductions of 7.8 ...
Utility Asks for 15% Rate Hike; Efficiency Spend to Double
Utility Ameren Missouri is planning a 14.6 percent rate hike next year to reimburse investments in renewable energy, efficiency and reliability.
The subsidiary of Ameren ...
Companies Lured with 45% Electricity Discount
Santee Cooper, South Carolina's biggest power producer, is offering discounts as high as 45 percent to businesses moving to or expanding in the state ...
Tool to Ease Colleges’ Reporting for Sustainability Rankings
Starting this Wednesday, colleges and universities will have a single portal for reporting their data to some of the biggest sustainability rankings in education.
The Association ...
Carbon Tracking Declines Among Energy Firms, Survey Finds
A surprising 68 percent of energy and utility industry professionals say they have no system in place to track and report on carbon emissions, up ...
Tesco Quits Carbon Labeling
Tesco, the U.K.'s biggest retailer, has decided to stop using a carbon labeling program a few years after promising to label all ...
GRI Launches Event Sustainability Guidance
The Global Reporting Initiative has published sustainability guidance for events, from business meetings to cultural festivals, and the organizers of this year’s Olympics say ...
