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.
Supervalu Makes a Profit From Trash
Supervalu, the owner of Albertsons, Acme and other supermarket brands, saw its recycling revenues exceed landfill waste expenses for the first time in fiscal ...
KPMG Cuts Carbon 22% in Three Years
KPMG has achieved a 22 percent carbon reduction over three years from its 2007 baseline target, while reducing paper consumption by 33 percent, the ...
L'Oreal Cuts Water Per Product, Carbon, Waste; VOCs Up
L’Oreal made improvements on almost all of its environmental measures in 2010, including water consumption, carbon emissions, SO2 emissions and waste output, according to ...
Weyerhaeuser Absolute CO2 Down, Intensity Up Since 2000
Weyerhaeuser has reduced its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent since 2000, but its GHG intensity increased by about 20 percent ...
Constellation's Proportion of Coal Up After Nuclear Sales
Constellation Energy’s proportion of electricity from combustion sources has risen because of the company’s selling equity in its nuclear power plants, according to the ...
SC Johnson Cuts GHGs 27%, Meets Climate Leaders Goal
Consumer chemical firm SC Johnson has announced that it has achieved its greenhouse gas reduction goal set through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ...
Coca-Cola European CO2 Down 4%, Sales Up 4%
Coca-Cola’s European arm cut its carbon emissions by four percent in 2010 while its business volume grew by four percent, according to its ...
IBM Saves $30m in Energy Costs in One Year
IBM saved $29.7 million in energy expenses and conserved 272,000 MWh of electricity in 2010, according to the company's 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report.
The report ...
Kroger Cuts Waste 30%, Fleet Efficiency up 8%
Kroger manufacturing plants cut their waste to landfill by 30 percent between 2009 and 2010, and the company’s fleet increased its cases shipped per ...
GE's Ecomagination Spent $1.8bn, Launched 22 Products in 2010
GE spent about $1.8 billion on research and development of clean technologies and developed 22 new products as part of its Ecomagination initiative ...
Ford Beats Facilities Targets on Water, Efficiency, Waste
Last year Ford beat nearly all its facilities-based environmental targets, with a 5.6 percent improvement in global energy efficiency, and an eight percent reduction ...
Verizon Aims to Triple Alt Fuel Fleet by 2015
Verizon increased its number of alternative fuel vehicles more than six-fold last year, according to the company’s 2010-11 corporate responsibility report, ...
AT&T Sets 2011 Goals on Supplier Carbon, Renewables
AT&T will ensure that a majority of its spend this year goes to suppliers that track their GHG emissions or have plans to do ...
Marks & Spencer Over Halfway on Plan A Sustainability Goals
Marks & Spencer has achieved over half of the commitments outlined in its ecological and ethical corporate program, Plan A, according to its ...
Boeing Relative Emissions Up on 2009, Down on 2002
Boeing’s revenue-adjusted energy use, CO2 emissions and water intake all rose last year compared to 2009, but were down significantly on 2002, ...
REI Sales Growth Outpaces Emissions
REI increased its carbon emissions by 7.3 percent last year, less than the company’s 14 percent sales growth, according to its fifth annual ...
USPS Touts GHG Cuts
The U.S. Postal Service has reported an eight percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from a fiscal year 2008 baseline.
Reduced facility energy use represented almost ...
American Airlines Cuts GHG Intensity 5%
American Airlines parent company AMR reduced its greenhouse gas intensity by five percent from 2009 to 2010, according to the company’s third ...
Carbon-Neutral Kohl's Reports Rise in Emissions, Recycling
Kohl’s first corporate sustainability report reveals that its scope 1 to 4 carbon emissions all rose in 2009, while the department store ...
Intel's Chemical Waste Rises 27% in One Year
Intel saw most of its economic metrics worsen in 2010 compared to 2009, with chemical waste output up 27 percent, according to the ...
