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WR Grace Targets 20% Energy Intensity Cuts
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GE Tops List of Most Sustainable Companies
Corporate Knights has announced its sixth annual Global 100 list of the most sustainable large corporations in the world at the World Economic Forum in ...
Ten Best Practices for Writing a Great CSR Report
Although a new report helps readers gauge the value of information in corporate responsibility reports (CSR), it also provides valuable insight into how CSR reports should ...
Only 5% of Top Korean Firms Prepared for International Sustainability Standards
A majority of Korea's top 100 companies by revenue aren't prepared to meet international corporate responsibility standards, according to an industry study, reports The Korea ...
Sustainability Perception of General Mills, Kellogg, Kraft Far Exceeds Actual Records
A new consumer study reveals that there is still a gap between real and perceived sustainability action by top North American brands including Kraft, General ...
Ford, Coke Among 60 Firms Testing Greenhouse Gas Protocol Standards
Sixty corporations are now measuring the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their products and supply chains by testing a new global framework that is part of ...
Five Times as Many Firms to Use Enterprise Carbon Accounting by 2011
More than $46 million in venture capital was invested in enterprise carbon accounting (ECA) startup companies in 2009, while software giants Computer Associates and Microsoft entered ...
Apple Again Resists Shareholder Pleas for Emissions Reporting
In a repeat scenario from last January, Apple Inc. is contesting two petitions from shareholder groups to increase the company's environmental efforts, according to Apple's ...
Chinese CSR Reports Called into Question
State-owned enterprises perform better than private and multinational companies in corporate social responsibility (CSR), according to a report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ...
Cabot Aims to Reduce GHG Emissions Intensity 20% by 2020
Cabot Corp., a global performance materials company, reduced its total CO2-equivalents (CO2-e) emissions by 11 percent compared with 2007, which correlates with the company's 12 percent ...
Nearly 75% of Americans Tried Energy-Saving Bulbs in 2009
While 74 percent of Americans have switched to an energy-saving light bulb in 2009, the vast majority don't know about the impending federal phase-out of incandescent ...
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi-Aventis Tops Pharmaceutical Sustainability Report
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis earned the two highest scores in the pharmaceutical sector for sustainability reporting, according to a report from the Roberts Environmental Center ...
Japan Tops ICT Sustainability Index
IDC has ranked Japan, with a score of 16, as the top-tier country with the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gases by using information and communications ...
California’s Global Warming Law Minimally Impacts Small Businesses
New analysis shows that California's global warming law, Assembly Bill (AB) 32, will have a minimal impact on small businesses with small increases in the price ...
Climategate: Environmentalists versus climate-change deniers
There are two sides to every story as evidenced by the various opinions across the Web about the recent release of hacked emails and documents ...
UK’s Top Brands Fail to Disclose Emissions Data
Google, Burger King, Dyson, Facebook, McKinsey, Amazon and Iceland are some of the 250 top brands that failed to disclose carbon-emissions performance data, according to the ...
Around the Web – Climate Risk, GHG Reporting, Al Gore, U.S. Chamber
Today's news from Around the Web. U.K. Sailing Team Charts a Course to Victory Using a Moral Compass WSJ UK firms fail to take climate ...
CDP Launches Water Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has launched a global water disclosure project to help businesses and institutional investors understand the risks and opportunities associated with ...
Fossil Fuel Emissions Rose 29% since 2000
A report (PDF) by scientists shows that emissions are outpacing the ability of ocean and land carbon sinks to soak up carbon dioxide from the ...
Offshore Wind Power Capacity Estimates Rise, Yet Support Seems Weak
Offshore wind power development is starting to gain a foothold in the renewable energy industry thanks to several new reports that cite big potential capacity. But ...
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