Sustainability Reports
The latest news on corporate environmental, sustainability and energy initiatives and goals. Sustainability reports are published by over two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 companies. Sustainability reports have evolved from environmental reports to include measures of economic and social performance.
Tiffany Details Diamond, Metals Purchasing
Tiffany & Co. last year bought over 80 percent of its serialized diamonds either directly from a mine, or from a supplier that only ...
Heinz Cuts Solid Waste 46% Since 2005
Heinz has cut its production of solid waste per unit of production by 45.6 percent since 2005, according to the company’s 2011 Corporate Social ...
Xerox Cuts Water Use 7% in One Year
Xerox brought its water consumption down seven percent in 2010, compared to 2009 levels, according to its sixth Global Citizenship Report and 2011 Environmental, ...
NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2
NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.'s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles ...
Bombardier Cuts Energy, GHGs 3 Percent
Bombardier's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions each fell by three percent over FY 2011, according to the company's 2011 CSR Overview.
Energy consumption fell ...
Eastman Lowers Energy Intensity, Exceeds Release Targets
Eastman Chemical Company met a target of a 2.5 percent energy-efficiency improvement last year, lowering its energy intensity by six percent, according to the ...
Fluor Cuts Energy 10.3m kWh, But Report Short on Data
Fluor, the $20.8 billion engineering, construction, procurement and maintenance company, reduced energy use in its offices by 1.3 kWh per square foot last year, ...
Clorox Integrated Report Shows Progress on Energy, GHGs, Water, Waste
Clorox has released its first integrated financial, environmental, social and governance report, which shows that energy consumption fell from 1.81 to 1.78 MWh ...
Procter & Gamble Cuts Scope 2 GHGs, but Scope 1 Rises
Procter & Gamble's scope 1 CO2 emissions rose from 2.8 million to 2.9 million metric tons in 2011, but scope 2 emissions fell ...
DuPont's Emissions Rise on Back of Rebound
DuPont’s GHG emissions rose from 13.8 million to 15.4 million metric tons of CO2, an increase the company pinned on an economic rebound, ...
Microsoft Lags on 2012 CO2 Goal
Microsoft is behind schedule on a goal of reducing carbon emissions per unit of revenue by 20 percent by 2012, from a 2007 ...
Reckitt Benckiser 75% of the Way Towards 2020 CO2 Goal
Reckitt Benckiser, the company behind Lysol, Durex, Clearasil and other well-known brands, is three-quarters of the way towards its 2020 carbon reduction ...
Avery Dennison Cuts Energy, GHG Intensity 6% in One Year
Avery Dennison reduced both its greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, indexed to net sales, by six percent last year, according to its ...
Merck Cuts GHGs, Outlines Post-Merger Goals
Merck’s sales and acquisition-adjusted GHG emissions fell by six percent between 2009 and 2010, from 2.21 and 2.08, according to the company’s 2010 global corporate responsibility report, its first in accordance with GRI principles since ...
Symantec Nearly Doubles LEED Facilities
In FY11, Symantec nearly doubled its number of LEED-certified buildings from nine to 16, including an enterprise data center, according to the company's 2011 ...
Sodexo Reveals First Carbon and Water Measurements
Sodexo emitted 71,368 metric tons of carbon equivalent in 2010, according to the company's first performance-based sustainability report for North America.
The report included a ...
Shaw Improves Water Use, Carpet Recycling
Shaw Industries Group lowered both its water intensity and post-industrial waste intensity last year, while greenhouse gas intensity held steady, according to the carpet ...
Glencore Hazardous Waste Triples, But Suspended Solids Fall
Commodities company Glencore incurred four significant environmental fines in 2010 and its hazardous waste output more than tripled last year, according to the company’s ...
Dell to Revamp GHG Measurement; No Longer Carbon-Neutral
Dell’s changing business model is forcing the company to craft a new way of measuring its carbon footprint, the company notes in its ...
Allstate Cuts Internal Paper Use 41% in Two Years
Allstate has cut its paper consumption dramatically and has continued cutting its carbon emissions, but saw its energy use increase slightly last year, according ...
