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Big Firms Continue to Lead on Environment, UN Finds
Companies’ implementation of environmental policies and actions improved in 2010, with large corporations continuing to show better performance than small and medium-sized enterprises, ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Oil Drilling, UN Talks, China 'Meets Environmental Goals'
The Department of the Interior on Friday outlined a plan to streamline permitting for offshore drilling, the Hill reports. The proposals by the ...
EU Holds Ground on Airline CO2 Cap; Trade War Coming?
The European Commission will move forward on its plan to include aviation in its emissions trading scheme, WSJ reports.
According to the plan, EU airlines will have specific CO2 allocations and will pay a ...
World GHG Emissions Hit Record Level
Greenhouse gas emissions reached their highest point ever last year, making it “extremely challenging” to prevent global temperature rising to dangerous levels, the ...
Best Practices: Navigating Today’s Global Regulatory Environment
Join Environmental Leader for a webinar on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 8am PDT/11am EDT discussing best practices in managing the regulatory and compliance ...
12 Countries Agree to Carbon Capture Actions; IEA Urges Aggressive Policies
Energy secretaries from the U.S., U.K. and ten other countries have agreed to accelerate the development of carbon capture projects, at the ...
Epicenter of Renewable Energy Investments Shifts to Developing Economies
2010 proved a record year for green energy investments – according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, nearly US $243 billion ...
Ericsson, Cisco, GE Launch New Cities Foundation
Cisco, Ericsson and GE have helped to launch a foundation aimed at improving life and work in the 21st century city.
The founders of ...
Energy Efficiency Discussion at CSIS
Center for Strategic and International Studies session explores the potential for catalyzing major steps forward on energy efficiency gains through a ...
Sustainable Development, Part II: the Three-Legged Stool
In Part 1 of this article, we defined sustainable development as a balanced approach to achieving a better quality of life ...
Carbon Professionals’ Salaries Rise Worldwide
Average salaries of carbon and climate change professionals were up four percent last year, according to a survey out today, but the proportion of ...
Shell, Nestle Among 54 Firms Launching U.N. Sustainability Program
The United Nations today launched a program encouraging corporations to share knowledge on sustainability, and signed up the first 54 participating companies.
Chief executives joined UN ...
Can Trade Liberalization Be Aligned with Long-term Environmental Health?
Trade liberalization and free trade in their purest forms do little to encourage effective improvements in environmental quality. The goal of ...
Report: Climate Change Information Is Insufficient
Financial institutions don’t have access to enough information on climate change effects, a report by the United Nations and Germany’s Sustainable ...
Projected Global OTC Market for Forest Carbon Offsets to Hit $65 Million by 2015
The global forest carbon offset market is projected to grow from $42.0 million in 2010 to $65.1 million in 2015, according to the latest ...
Post COP16 Perspective from African Union: Climate Change Matter of Life and Death
One day after the close of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) in Cancun, Mexico, Green Canary Sustainability Consulting CEO Kevin Tuerff interviewed a delegate ...
UN Climate Conference (COP 16) Wrap up and What to Watch in 2011
This year’s Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place between ...
Smart Grid Software, Data Mgmt Market To Hit $2.9 Billion in 2015
The current world market for Smart Grid software and data management applications is $1.4 billion in 2010, and it will grow to $2.9 billion in ...
At COP16, Business Sounds Note of Optimism
Ministerial-level talks began at the COP16 climate summit yesterday amid widespread pessimism about the chances for a binding agreement between governments, but some notes of ...
COP 16 Day 3 Press Briefing
Speaking to the media on the third day of the conference, Christiana Figueres said that Cancun can deliver on adaptation, technology ...
