Financial
Big Four Audit Firms Lead Sustainability Assurance Services
The Big Four financial audit firms are the top “green counters,” too, leading the market in corporate sustainability assurance services, according to a new ...
Enablon Raises $15m in Growth Capital
Enablon, a provider of sustainability management software, has received a $15 million investment from the Environmental Technologies Fund.
The financing will support the ...
Japanese Firms Turn Out Lights, Redefine Weekend to Save Energy
Japan is embracing energy efficiency at an unprecedented rate, as the country continues to deal with the fall-out from its nuclear energy crisis, the ...
Insurance Company Sees Big Savings From Energy Investments
A new rooftop solar power system at Harleysville Insurance in Harleysville, Pennsylvania will generate about 15 percent of the annual energy needs of the company's ...
Investors Blast 43 Firms for ‘Contradictory’ Climate Stance
AT&T, GE, GM and Ford are among the who’s who of corporate America that has been accused of taking contradictory positions on ...
PNC Plans ‘World’s Greenest Skyscraper’
The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. has announced that it plans to construct what it says will be the world’s most environmentally friendly ...
Environmental Software Briefing: PG&E, Hara, SQLstream
Pacific Gas & Electric has revealed that it is using Enviance’s environmental enterprise resource planning software.
PG&E is already using the system but ...
Bank of America Targets 15% GHG Cut
Bank of America aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015, against a 2010 baseline, the company announced ...
TD Bank Opens Net-Zero Branch, Powered 100% by On-Site Solar
TD Bank opened what it says is the first net-zero energy bank location in the U.S. in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
The U.S. DOE defines a net-zero ...
Citi Launches Socially Responsible Cash Collateral
Citi has announced the addition of “socially responsible investment solutions” to its securities lending cash collateral investment program.
The company’s securities lending clients can now ...
Bloomberg Claims 200% ROI on Sustainability
Every dollar that Bloomberg has spent on sustainability has saved two dollars in operating costs, according to the company’s first public sustainability report.
The ...
PPAs, Other Deal Financing Tools will Weigh on Balance Sheets
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have amended their accounting standards, writes BusinessTimes. And the new rules ...
Aviva Tops Carbon Rankings; Nokia Also Does Well
Aviva has topped rankings of Europe’s largest 300 companies by their carbon intensity, which also shows strong performance from Nokia and Swisscom.
The ...
Coca-Cola Shareholders Urge BPA Disclosure
Over a quarter of Coca-Cola shares have supported a resolution addressing bisphenol-A (BPA) in can linings, as shareholder activist group As You Sow ...
Citi Cuts Carbon Relative to 2005 Levels for First Time
Citi reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to 2005 levels for the first time in 2010, and the company says it ...
High Carbon Emitters ‘Are Valued Lower’
S&P 500 companies’ value declines by $202,000, on average, for every additional thousand metric tons of carbon they emit, according to new ...
Santander, Goldman ‘World’s Greenest Banks’
Banco Santander has been declared the world's greenest bank in rankings by Bloomberg Markets magazine.
Eight of the top ten banks are ...
ING Air Travel Up 25%; Firm Stays Carbon Neutral
ING Group's share of electricity from renewables held steady from 2009 to 2010 at 62 percent, but the company last year saw a ...
Backed by $7.6 Trillion Worth of Investors, CDP Urges Companies to Cut Emissions
Institutional investors managing $7.6 trillion yesterday called on companies in the FTSE Global 500 to institute cost-effective programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A group ...
Siemens and Carbon Trust to Launch $890m of Energy Efficiency Loans
Siemens and the U.K.'s Carbon Trust have announced a finance program to cover the upfront costs that businesses face when switching to the ...
