http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:25:25 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69028 The White House has released more details about the manufacturing efficiency incentives that President Obama announced in his State of the Union address Thursday. The proposed $5 billion in incentives aren’t new, but – if passed by Congress – are an extension to the Recovery Act’s Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit awarding a 30 percent rebate on qualified [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/policy-enforcement-briefing-manufacturing-tax-credit-natural-gas-drilling-ener1-chapter-11-tier-3-emissions/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/68480/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/68480/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:16:50 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68480 Val Smith, director of sustainability at Citi, discusses innovation and sustainability during a presentation at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/68480/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/10/brazilian-stock-exchange-urges-sustainability-reporting/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/10/brazilian-stock-exchange-urges-sustainability-reporting/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:15:54 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68099 The Brazilian stock exchange, BM&FBOVESPA, has recommended that its listed companies either publish sustainability reports or explain why they do not. BM&FBOVESPA says the aims of the initiative are to encourage adoption of sustainability reporting, and to create a public database of reporting companies to be made available at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/10/brazilian-stock-exchange-urges-sustainability-reporting/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/27/the-environment-and-economic-accounting-and-decision-making-systems/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/27/the-environment-and-economic-accounting-and-decision-making-systems/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:05:47 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=67339 On Thursday 15th December 2011 over 200 representatives from the international accounting and business communities, investors, government, academia and civil society gathered at St James’s Palace State Apartments to hear the Prince of Wales speak about “the economic invisibility of nature” and consider how the value of the planet’s natural resources, ecosystems and biodiversity can [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/27/the-environment-and-economic-accounting-and-decision-making-systems/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/14/td-bank-aims-to-go-paper-neutral/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/14/td-bank-aims-to-go-paper-neutral/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:41:35 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66735 TD Bank Group has announced a commitment to become “paper neutral” within its North American operations by the end of 2012. The bank says the paper neutrality goal is two-pronged: first, TD aims to cut its paper use by 20 percent by 2015. Second, it will introduce a forest conservation program to offset the paper [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/14/td-bank-aims-to-go-paper-neutral/feed/ 2 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/01/jpmorgan-citi-top-banks-slammed-over-coal-investment/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/01/jpmorgan-citi-top-banks-slammed-over-coal-investment/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:12:40 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=66043 JP Morgan Chase, Citi and Bank of America have been branded the worst three “climate killers” in the financial sector over their large-scale investments in coal industries, in a report by German green group Urgewald, South African organizations GroundWork and Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and international financial sector monitor BankTrack. Figures in Bankrolling Climate Change show that [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/12/01/jpmorgan-citi-top-banks-slammed-over-coal-investment/feed/ 6 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/29/nyse-bloomberg-launch-3-clean-energy-indices/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/29/nyse-bloomberg-launch-3-clean-energy-indices/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:23:25 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65806 NYSE Euronext and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have launched three regionally-focused clean energy stock indices covering the Americas (ticker NBAMCEUP), the Europe, Middle East and Africa region (NBEACEUP), and Asia and Oceania (NBASCEUP). Each index follows between 125 and 325 companies with a moderate or greater exposure to renewable energy and what the partners call [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/29/nyse-bloomberg-launch-3-clean-energy-indices/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/27/green-banking-part-iii-reducing-environmental-underwriting-risk-for-you-your-clients/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/27/green-banking-part-iii-reducing-environmental-underwriting-risk-for-you-your-clients/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:47:13 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65769 From coal, to real estate, to small business lending, environmental, social, and governance underwriting criteria are a critical tool for banks to reduce risk and enhance profitability for themselves and their business partners. In Part II of our green banking series, we examined the growing opportunities for banks to profit through financing a more environmentally [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/27/green-banking-part-iii-reducing-environmental-underwriting-risk-for-you-your-clients/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/22/starbucks-alcoa-join-nasdaq-sustainability-index-citi-jpmorgan-dropped/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/22/starbucks-alcoa-join-nasdaq-sustainability-index-citi-jpmorgan-dropped/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:54:13 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=65594 Alcoa, Caterpillar, Diageo, Fluor, Ingersoll-Rand, Reed Elsevier and Starbucks have been added to the Nasdaq OMX CRD Global Sustainability Index, while Advanced Micro Devices, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Eli Lilly, Petrobras, Raytheon and Shire plc have been dropped. The equity index, which seeks to provide a benchmark of companies taking a leadership role in sustainability performance [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/22/starbucks-alcoa-join-nasdaq-sustainability-index-citi-jpmorgan-dropped/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/27/energy-efficiency-financing-has-150bn-potential-report-compares-commercial-opt-out-programs/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/27/energy-efficiency-financing-has-150bn-potential-report-compares-commercial-opt-out-programs/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:58:01 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=64225 Energy efficiency financing has the potential to jump from $20 billion to $150 billion over the next ten years, according to a report by Capital-E. Energy Efficiency Financing: Models and Strategies says that investment at this level would save U.S. businesses and households $200 billion a year and create more than one million full time [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/27/energy-efficiency-financing-has-150bn-potential-report-compares-commercial-opt-out-programs/feed/ 0