Leading CEOs Share Best Sustainability Practices

CEOs from Wal-Mart, Fedex, PepsiCo, Whirlpool and Verizon are among the 97 executives from leading U.S. companies that share some of their best sustainability initiatives in the Business Roundtables’ annual report. These companies have committed to reducing emissions, increasing energy efficiency and developing more sustainable business practices.

The report, “Enhancing Our Commitment to a Sustainable Future 2010,” provides best practices and metrics from Business Roundtable member companies that represent nearly all sectors with $6 trillion in annual revenues.

As an example, Wal-Mart’s CEO says it is working with suppliers, partners and consumers to drive its sustainability program. The giant retailer has helped establish the Sustainability Consortium to drive metrics for measuring the environmental impacts of consumer products across their lifecycle. The retailer also helped lead the creation of a Sustainable Product Index to provide product information to consumers about the environmental impact of products they buy.

A few of Wal-Mart’s energy-efficiency goals include eliminating 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions from the life cycle of products it sells globally by 2015, and cutting supply chain emissions. One program with DVD suppliers has reduced their packaging and cut more than 28,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases.

Members contributing to the report include:

— A. O. Smith Corporation

— ABB Inc. USA

— Abbott

— Accenture plc

— ACE Limited

— Alcoa Inc.

— Altec, Inc.

— American Electric Power

— Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

— Apache Corporation

— ArvinMeritor, Inc.

— AT&T Inc.

— Bechtel Group, Inc.

— BNSF Railway Company

— The Boeing Company

— CA, Inc.

— Caterpillar Inc.

— CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (CBRE)

— CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd.

— Chevron Corporation

— The Coca-Cola Company

— Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

— Comcast Corporation

— ConocoPhillips

— CSC

— Cummins Inc.

— Darden Restaurants, Inc.

— Deere & Company

— Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

— The Dow Chemical Company

— Duke Energy Corporation

— DuPont

— Eastman Kodak Company

— Eaton Corporation

— Eli Lilly and Company

— EMC Corporation

— Ernst & Young

— Exxon Mobil Corporation

— Fedex Corporation

— FMC Corporation

— FPL Group, Inc.

— Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.

— General Mills, Inc.

— Grainger

— Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.

— The Hertz Corporation

— Honeywell International, Inc.

— HSBC – North America

— Humana Inc.

— IBM Corporation

— Ingersoll–Rand plc

— International Paper Company

— ITT Corporation

— Johnson & Johnson

— Johnson Controls, Inc.

— KPMG LLP

— Life Technologies Corporation

— Macy’s Inc.

— The McGraw-Hill Companies

— McKesson Corporation

— Medco Health Solutions

— Merck & Co.

— Motorola, Inc.

— National Gypsum Company

— Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

— Navistar International Corporation

— Norfolk Southern Corporation

— Nucor Corporation

— Office Depot

— Owens Corning

— Peabody Energy Corporation

— PepsiCo, Inc.

— Praxair, Inc.

— PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC

— Principal Financial Group, Inc.

— The Procter & Gamble Company

— Rockwell Automation Corporation

— Ryder System, Inc.

— Sara Lee Corporation

— SAS Institute Inc.

— Siemens Corporation

— Southern Company

— State Farm Insurance Companies

— Target Corporation

— Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

— Tyco International Ltd.

— UAL Corporation

— Union Pacific Corporation

— United Technologies Corporation

— Verizon Communications

— Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

— Weyerhaeuser Company

— Whirlpool Corporation

— The Williams Companies

— World Fuel Services Corporation

— Xerox Corporation

— YRC Worldwide Inc.