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.
Nestlé Releases First U.S. Environmental Metrics
Nestlé in the United States has published its first environmental metrics, showing a one year, six percent decline in normalized greenhouse gases emissions.
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Hormel Beats Water Goal A Year Early
Spam manufacturer Hormel Foods has beat its water goal one year early, though indirect electricity use and indirect greenhouse gas emissions are both ...
Puma Reveals 'World's First' Environmental P&L Results
Puma has announced the first results of its Environmental Profit & Loss Account, valuing the greenhouse gas and water consumption impacts of the ...
Alcoa Meets Carbon Goal 10 Years Early
Alcoa has beaten its carbon reduction goal a decade early, according to the company’s 2010 sustainability report.
Last year the company cut its greenhouse ...
Campbell's Cuts Packaging, Creates More Waste
Campbell’s saved more than 4.5 million pounds of steel, plastic and paper packaging materials in 2010, but its waste disposal rate was up 15 ...
CVS Unveils Carbon Reduction Goal
CVS Caremark has announced a goal of reducing carbon intensity by 15 percent by 2018, from a 2010 baseline, according to its ...
Motorola Misses GHG Goal, Despite 10% Cut
Motorola’s consumer product arm cuts its absolute greenhouse gas emissions by ten percent last year, but missed its goal for carbon relative to ...
AMD Beats Climate Goal, But Water Use Rises
AMD is on track or ahead of targets for greenhouse gas reduction, non-hazardous waste and non-manufacturing water use, but off-track of its manufacturing ...
Abbott Labs Cuts CO2, Water, Waste
Abbott Laboratories cut its Scope 1 and 2 CO2e emissions by three percent in 2010, and its water intake rate by 9.7 percent, ...
Bloomberg Claims 200% ROI on Sustainability
Every dollar that Bloomberg has spent on sustainability has saved two dollars in operating costs, according to the company’s first public sustainability report.
The ...
HP Energy Use Down, Air Travel GHGs Up
HP reduced its electricity consumption, total energy use and operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2010, though emissions from employee air travel shot ...
AEP Aims for 10% GHG Reduction
AEP expects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by ten percent by 2020, from 2010 levels – even as it warns that it ...
Anheuser-Busch Improves Recycling, CO2, Energy Use
Anheuser-Busch InBev increased its relative recycling rate by 24 percent in 2010, while improving energy use, CO2 emissions and water consumption, according ...
PPG Particulates, GHG, Ozone-Depleting Compounds Rise
PPG Industries’ emissions of ozone-depleting chemicals and particulate matter were up 36 percent and 26 percent last year, and both now exceed ...
Kellogg's Meets Waste Goal 5 Years Early
Kellogg Company has already met a goal to reduce its waste to landfill rate by 20 percent from 2010 to 2015, against a ...
KB Home 'to Improve Efficiency 10% in 2011'
KB Home is “well on its way” to improving the energy efficiency of its average home by ten percent this year, according ...
H&M Beats Organic Cotton Goal by Wide Margin
Last year Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) used 15,000 tons of organic cotton, over three times its targeted amount, according to the company’s ...
Kodak Cuts GHGs, Energy by Almost 50%
Eastman Kodak reduced its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 49 percent from 2002 to 2010, coming close to a goal of ...
Citi Cuts Carbon Relative to 2005 Levels for First Time
Citi reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to 2005 levels for the first time in 2010, and the company says it ...
Walmart Behind on Carbon Goal
Walmart is slightly behind on its carbon reduction goal, according to its 2011 Global Responsibility Report.
The two million-employee company is targeting a ...
