http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 25 May 2012 17:41:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/del-monte-foods-others-join-kkrs-green-portfolio-program/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/del-monte-foods-others-join-kkrs-green-portfolio-program/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 14:10:36 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=77178 Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts is adding seven of its portfolio companies, including Del Monte Foods, healthcare products firm Capsugel and telecommunications firm TDC, to an initiative designed to help them manage their environmental impacts in a profitable way. Telecommunications firm Verstel and Bharti Infratel, fork lift manufacturer Kion Group and Dalmia Bharat [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/del-monte-foods-others-join-kkrs-green-portfolio-program/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/financing-goes-green/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/financing-goes-green/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 13:35:48 +0000 Roland W. Chalons-Browne http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=77162 Energy prices and consumption seem to be on an upward trajectory. In fact, energy costs have steadily risen over the last decade and are expected to carry on doing so as consumption grows worldwide. Businesses Eager to Introduce Energy Efficiency Especially for businesses, the cost of energy is an increasingly significant issue. In a survey [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/23/financing-goes-green/feed/ 3 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/17/investor-coalition-pushes-shale-gas-industry-to-clean-up-fracking/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/17/investor-coalition-pushes-shale-gas-industry-to-clean-up-fracking/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 14:00:45 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=76790 A coalition of 55 investment firms and institutional investors is urging the shale gas industry to adopt best practices to clean up hydraulic fracturing, a controversial production technique used to release gas trapped in deep underground formations. The group, which has nearly $1 trillion in assets under management, is spearheaded by Boston Common Asset Management, Investor [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/05/17/investor-coalition-pushes-shale-gas-industry-to-clean-up-fracking/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/27/toshiba-to-rebuild-thailand-chip-factory-hit-by-floods/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/27/toshiba-to-rebuild-thailand-chip-factory-hit-by-floods/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:45:02 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=75262 Toshiba Corp. said it will build a semiconductor manufacturing factory in Thailand to replace the one inundated by last year’s record flooding. Toshiba Semiconductor Thailand Co. will be relocated to a new manufacturing facility about 90 miles northeast of Bangkok, on a site outside of the country’s main drainage basins and with no major rivers nearby, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/27/toshiba-to-rebuild-thailand-chip-factory-hit-by-floods/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/24/wells-fargo-targets-35-ghg-cut-30bn-in-green-investments/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/24/wells-fargo-targets-35-ghg-cut-30bn-in-green-investments/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:15:42 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74965 Wells Fargo is targeting a 40 percent increase in its energy efficiency, 35 percent cut to absolute greenhouse gas emissions, and $30 billion in loans and investments to support a “greener” economy, all by 2020, the company announced. The GHG goal, which uses a 2008 baseline, revises the company’s previous target of a 20 percent [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/24/wells-fargo-targets-35-ghg-cut-30bn-in-green-investments/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/market-perspectives-from-the-lp-gp-clean-energy-sustainability-forum/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/market-perspectives-from-the-lp-gp-clean-energy-sustainability-forum/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:01 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73215 The most active investors in the cleantech, renewable energy and sustainability sectors share their views on the market at the fourth annual LP-GP Forum: Clean Energy & Sustainability hosted by AltAssets.]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/17/market-perspectives-from-the-lp-gp-clean-energy-sustainability-forum/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/13/clean-energy-records-lowest-quarter-of-investment-since-2009/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/13/clean-energy-records-lowest-quarter-of-investment-since-2009/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:25:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=74210 After clocking up a record in 2011, new financial investment in clean energy in Q1 2012 was the weakest since the depths of the financial crisis in Q1 2009, according to analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. New financial investment was down 28 percent from Q4 2011 to just $27bn; it was 22 percent lower [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/13/clean-energy-records-lowest-quarter-of-investment-since-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/10/rbs-reveals-environmental-goals-aims-to-cut-200m-by-2020/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/10/rbs-reveals-environmental-goals-aims-to-cut-200m-by-2020/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:50:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73870 Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed environmental goals that it hopes will cut £200 million ($318 million) from its costs by 2020. This is the first time RBS has published its environmental targets, although they have previously been used internally, The Scotsman reports. The bank is aiming to cut the CO2 emitted as a result [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/10/rbs-reveals-environmental-goals-aims-to-cut-200m-by-2020/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/global-carbon-markets-plummet/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/global-carbon-markets-plummet/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:55:37 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73679 The value of the world’s carbon markets declined by 21 percent over the last quarter, despite trading volumes above the historical average, according to analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Global carbon markets fell to €14.2bn ($19.2bn) over Q1 2012, according to Bloomberg. This was 41 percent less than in the same period a year [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/global-carbon-markets-plummet/feed/ 10 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/a-look-at-the-outperformance-of-the-carbon-efficient-index/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/a-look-at-the-outperformance-of-the-carbon-efficient-index/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:00:52 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73663   Here, Michael Orzano, associate director of Global Equity Indices, and Alka Banerjee, vice president of Global Equity & Strategy Indices for S&P Indices, describe outperformance in the S&P/IFCI Carbon Efficient Index, driven by Trucost data. The S&P/IFCI Carbon Efficient Index was designed to closely track the performance of the benchmark S&P/IFCI LargeMidCap Composite, but [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/06/a-look-at-the-outperformance-of-the-carbon-efficient-index/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/05/shareholder-interest-in-triple-bottom-line-increasing/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/05/shareholder-interest-in-triple-bottom-line-increasing/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:25:04 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73567 Investor attention to the “triple bottom line” of environmental, social and economic performance is growing and raising support levels for shareholder resolutions on environmental and social issues, according to a report by Ernst & Young. Leading corporate sustainability issues in the 2012 proxy season: is your board prepared? says that environmental and social proposals will [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/05/shareholder-interest-in-triple-bottom-line-increasing/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/04/institute-ends-college-sustainability-report-card/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/04/institute-ends-college-sustainability-report-card/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:21:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73467 The Sustainable Endowments Institute has announced that it is suspending publication of its College Sustainability Report Card. The report card pioneered the first evaluations of campus and endowment sustainability programs starting in 2007, the organization says. Its accompanying Web site makes available more than 20,000 pages of environmental data collected for five editions over the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/04/04/institute-ends-college-sustainability-report-card/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/30/deloitte-outlines-process-for-choosing-environmental-metrics/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/30/deloitte-outlines-process-for-choosing-environmental-metrics/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:35:51 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73132 Public and private companies are finding it a major challenge to determine what environmental, social and governance (ESG) information to disclose, according to a new report from Deloitte. According to the report, Disclosure of Long-Term Business Value: What Matters?, leading companies already are working to bring reporting on non-financial ESG performance to the same level [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/30/deloitte-outlines-process-for-choosing-environmental-metrics/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/29/less-than-half-of-uk-businesses-plan-for-climate-change-adaptation-cdp-finds/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/29/less-than-half-of-uk-businesses-plan-for-climate-change-adaptation-cdp-finds/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:25:22 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=73059 More than 80 percent of U.K. businesses say climate change is a substantial risk to them, citing a range of risk factors including change in precipitation extremes and droughts, change in temperature extremes or induced changes in natural resources. However, only 46 percent of surveyed FTSE 100 companies say they have climate adaptation plans in [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/29/less-than-half-of-uk-businesses-plan-for-climate-change-adaptation-cdp-finds/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/28/financing-the-new-age-of-electricity/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/28/financing-the-new-age-of-electricity/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:03:16 +0000 Roland W. Chalons-Browne http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=72929 The world’s energy demands continue to rise at a time when there is a growing need to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment. Cities already emit 80 percent of human-made greenhouse gases and are responsible for 75 percent of the world’s energy consumption. In fact, the World Bank has estimated that urban areas will [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/03/28/financing-the-new-age-of-electricity/feed/ 0