Finance & Reporting
Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 Rises
Procter & Gamble's scope 1 CO2 emissions rose from 2.8 million to 2.9 million metric tons in 2011, but scope 2 emissions fell ...
‘$1bn’ University Green Endowment Plan Launched
Harvard and Stanford are among 32 universities that have committed $65 million to new energy efficiency financing initiative Billion Dollar Green Challenge.
The fund aims to get ...
Cargill Ahead of Targets on Energy, GHGs, Water
Cargill's energy efficiency improved by 3.7 percent over its 2010 baseline during fiscal year 2011, according to a company statement.
During the year ending May ...
DuPont's Emissions Rise on Back of Rebound
DuPont’s GHG emissions rose from 13.8 million to 15.4 million metric tons of CO2, an increase the company pinned on an economic rebound, ...
BofA Merrill Enters California Carbon Market
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is entering the nascent California carbon trading market with an agreed option to buy several million tons ...
Few Oil & Gas Firms Set Environmental Goals
BP, ConocoPhillips, GazProm, PetroChina, SinoPec and Royal Dutch Shell have all failed to set specific sustainability goals, making the industry lag conspicuously ...
LEED Critics ‘Missing the Point’ of EPDs
Critics who fear that LEED has opened the door to alternative wood certifications have missed the point of pilot credit 43 for certified products, ...
Microsoft Lags on 2012 CO2 Goal
Microsoft is behind schedule on a goal of reducing carbon emissions per unit of revenue by 20 percent by 2012, from a 2007 ...
Reckitt Benckiser 75% of the Way Towards 2020 CO2 Goal
Reckitt Benckiser, the company behind Lysol, Durex, Clearasil and other well-known brands, is three-quarters of the way towards its 2020 carbon reduction ...
GRI Proposes Metrics for Firms’ Ecosystem Benefits
The Global Reporting Initiative has proposed a new approach for organizations to examine ecosystems as “service providers."
Approach for Reporting on Ecosystem ...
Avery Dennison Cuts Energy, GHG Intensity 6% in One Year
Avery Dennison reduced both its greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, indexed to net sales, by six percent last year, according to its ...
Automation System for Smaller Buildings Wins Funding
SCL Elements, developer of the Can2Go automation software for smaller commercial buildings, has secured $2.15 Million in Series A financing. The Westly Group led ...
Scope 3 GHG Reporting Standards Finalized
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol today published two standards to help businesses measure, manage and report GHG emissions beyond their own operations, including ...
Merck Cuts GHGs, Outlines Post-Merger Goals
Merck’s sales and acquisition-adjusted GHG emissions fell by six percent between 2009 and 2010, from 2.21 and 2.08, according to the company’s 2010 global corporate responsibility report, its first in accordance with GRI principles since ...
Symantec Nearly Doubles LEED Facilities
In FY11, Symantec nearly doubled its number of LEED-certified buildings from nine to 16, including an enterprise data center, according to the company's 2011 ...
Carbon Credits ‘Questionable’; Truckers Earning Carbon Offsets
Most carbon credits certified in India are “questionable” and do not represent real greenhouse gas reductions, according to a Wikileaks cable.
An American diplomatic cable ...
Sodexo Reveals First Carbon and Water Measurements
Sodexo emitted 71,368 metric tons of carbon equivalent in 2010, according to the company's first performance-based sustainability report for North America.
The report included a ...
At Clinton and UN Forums, Investors Push for Sustainability Ratings, Mandatory Integrated Reporting
Investors have launched two major drives to improve the quality of information on companies and funds, pushing a rating system for social ...
Annual Non-Utility Electricity Sales Hit $29.5bn, Set to Rise
The market for energy sales from firms selling directly to consumers, bypassing utility companies, grew to over $29.5 billion in 2009, according to a report by ...
Comcast, Honeywell Slammed by CDP; UPS Tops Latest Rankings
UPS, Consolidated Edison and Dow Chemical are among the top-ranked U.S. companies in the Carbon Disclosure Project's annual carbon performance and disclosure ratings for ...
