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Investors of $1.6 Trillion Urge Environmental Reporting
A group of institutional investors managing more than $1.6 trillion in assets have urged the world’s 30 biggest stock exchanges to force corporate sustainability ...
Shareholder Environmental Resolutions Hit Record
Shareholders filed 66 climate and energy resolutions with 41 coal, electric and oil companies in the 2011 proxy season, making it the busiest ...
U.S. Bank Chooses Hara for Energy Management
The country’s fifth-largest commercial bank has selected Hara to provide it with comprehensive energy and resource management software.
Hara Environmental and Energy Management (EEM) software ...
Raising Capital for Cleantech Means Proving Real-World Demand
Have you ever noticed that things “come in clumps?” You go for months without a certain experience, and then you have several such ...
Sustainability Report: Carbon-Neutral Danske Targets Electricity Cuts
The Danske Bank Group has set a 20 percent electricity reduction target, building on its second straight year of carbon neutrality.
The company is now ...
EDF, E&Y Creating Private Equity Sustainability Tool
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and consultants Ernst & Young are creating a tool to help private equity (PE) firms improve the environmental ...
EU Still Fighting Carbon Trading System VAT-Fraud
Italian police authorities raided about 150 companies in eight different regions of Italy earlier in December related to as much as $662 million in VAT ...
Jacquelynn Henke to Lead TD Bank’s Green Strategy
TD Bank has named Jacquelynn Henke U.S. Real Estate Green Strategy Officer charged with developing and executing the bank's environmental sustainability efforts.
Based in Boston, Mass., ...
RGGI Permit Price Remains Low, 43% Go Unsold
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative released the results of their 10th auction of CO2 allowances, held Wednesday, December 1st. Once again, the results point ...
Businesses Bring the Climate-Change Fight to COP16
Focusing on the role of business in developing solutions to climate change, a group of business, finance and government leaders is launching its inaugural ...
World Bank Cuts U.S. GHG Emissions 7%, Paper Use 15%
The World Bank has cut its overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the financial institution's U.S. buildings by seven percent between 2008 and 2009, according to ...
Nestle, P&G, IBM, J&J, GE, among Top Holdings in New Sustainability Index
The Dow Jones Indexes and SAM, a firm that specializes in sustainability investing, have launched a new index aimed at giving investors a broader ...
Investment Firm Pressures Starbucks, Google for Sustainability Committees
Harrington Investments has introduced binding bylaw amendments at Starbucks and Google, which encourages the boards of directors to create a standing committee to set company ...
Wells Fargo to Fund $100M in U.S. Solar Projects
Wells Fargo will invest more than $100 million by the end of 2011 to fund the development of solar photovoltaic power projects throughout the U.S. ...
Land Rover Invests $1.3B in ‘Green’ Tech
Land Rover is investing more than £800 million (approximately $1.3 billion) to develop environmental solutions, giving the automaker the leading position in terms of ...
NASDAQ Adds 66 Green Economy Indexes
NASDAQ OMX has launched 66 "green" economy indexes designed to track the performance of companies in the environmental and clean energy sector. NASDAQ says the green ...
U.S. Solar Market to Grow 42% Annually
The U.S. solar market for photovoltaic and solar thermal electricity generation is projected to grow annually by 42 percent to reach 44 gigawatts (GW) ...
USGBC Sued Over False Advertising, Fraud
Henry Gifford, owner of Gifford Fuel Saving and a public critic of the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED certification program, has filed a ...
Top Public Companies Cause One-Third of the World’s Environmental Damage
The estimated cost of global environmental damage caused by human activity in 2008 is $6.6 trillion, which is equivalent to 11 percent of global GDP, ...
GE Tops Climate Innovation Index, Berkshire Hathaway Ranks Last
General Electric has edged out Ford and Intel to take the top spot in Maplecroft's Climate Innovation Index U.S. 100, while Warren ...
