South America
Brazilian Stock Exchange Urges Sustainability Reporting
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 ...
WEF Names 16 Emerging Economy Sustainability Champions
Natura, Suzlon and Woolworths are among 16 fast-growing companies from the emerging markets that also shine in terms of their sustainability initiatives, according to a World ...
Contract Briefing: Xiolink, Siemens, Endesa, Ala. Corrections
Xiolink, a provider of private cloud computing and managed infrastructure, has selected Modius’s OpenData Enterprise Edition to monitor, maintain, and provide analytics ...
Staples, Cemex, Five Other Firms Help Start Sustainable Business Model Collaborative
Staples, Siemens and Johnson & Johnson are among a group of companies that have joined forces with think tank the World Resources Institute start an initiative ...
Water Use Falls at SABMiller, But Steady at MillerCoors
SABMiller cut both its relative water consumption and fossil fuel emissions by three percent and recycled 96 percent of its waste last year, ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Renewable Funds, EPA Review, Belo Monte Dam
The House appropriations subcommittee on energy and water yesterday passed a bill that cuts renewable energy funding by 27 percent to $1.3 ...
Energy-Efficient Vineyards Take Root in Chile
In the past, Chile's winegrowers wasted vast amounts of energy, Deutsche Welle reports. But now six vineyards are ...
Dole Launches Rainforest Alliance Bananas
Dole Food Company, the world’s biggest fruit producer, is now selling Rainforest Alliance Certified bananas.
The bananas are grown in Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala ...
Green Mountain Coffee Funds Farmers’ Environmental Education
Green Mountain Coffee has joined in a partnership with Fair Trade USA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote ...
Ecuadorian Judge Hits Chevron with $8.6bn Ruling
Chevron has been slapped with an $8.6 billion penalty, in what is suspected to be the largest environmental fine in history – and the amount ...
10 Trends Driving Action on Climate Change in 2011
Nobody expects the incoming Congress to take dramatic action on climate change, just as nobody was surprised that the international leaders meeting in Cancun ...
Biomass to Power Dow’s Aratu Complex
The Dow Chemical Company's largest manufacturing facility in Brazil, the Aratu Complex, has plans to add biomass to its energy mix. Upon completion in December ...
World Cup Responsible for 2.7M Tons of CO2 Equivalent
The total carbon footprint for the recently concluded 2010 World Cup came to 2,753,250 tons of CO2 equivalent, according to a recent study by Ernst ...
Lanxess CoGen Plant Runs on Sugar Cane Waste
A cogeneration plant at Lanxess AG's plant in Porto Feliz, Brazil, uses a gas generated from sugar cane waste to run ...
G8 Summit Roundup: Climate Progress Hastens
The G8 Summit in Italy has resulted in a flurry of developments on climate change, including a pledge to cut global emissions 50 percent by 2050, ...
Marriott: Green Your Hotel Stay For $1 Per Day
Marriott International, Inc. last week announced its latest environmental initiative in a five point plan to improve the planet, giving customers a chance to "green" ...
Computer-Sharing Project to Save Brazilian Schools 80% in Power
Using its desktop-sharing software, which allows up to 10 desktops to run from one computer, Userful and ThinNetworks have been selected to supply ...
Wal-Mart Pushes Green Outside U.S. Borders
Wal-Mart announced this week goals to reduce phosphates in products in the Americas region by 70 percent by 2011. The move is part of a larger environmental plan for the ...
Wal-Mart Unveils Largest PV Installation in Latin America
A Wal-Mart store in Aguascalientes, Mexico has installed a solar power system that will generate 20% of the store's energy needs. With over 1,056 solar panels totaling 174 kW installed, ...
Global Hospitality Industry Taking Green Steps
Government agencies, developers, and operators in the hospitality industry have numerous opportunities to jump on the green bandwagon, found Ernst & Young in Global Hospitality Insights (pdf).
Highlights from the report:
In Asia, resort brands and ...
