Good Clean Love, a manufacturer of intimacy products distributed in retail locations including CVS, Rite-Aid, Safeway and Whole Foods, is seeking carbon neutrality for its flagship Almost Naked product. The company is working with Carbon Credit Capital (CCC) to measure the emissions generated by the manufacture and distribution of the product and donate funds for every lubricant bottle purchased to a project that reduces greenhouse gases by an amount equivalent to that bottle’s carbon footprint.
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Pollution is harmful contamination of the environment. Here are up-to-date articles on pollution and efforts to reduce pollution. We also include information on environmental enforcement against polluters by governmental bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and regulation to control pollution.
More than 80 Sprouts Farmers Market stores are saving an average of $76,000 per store via new sustainable operating practices, including using data to track metrics on waste, water, and energy, and then taking steps to save resources.
Airlines represent one of the few major industry sectors to set and implement all-encompassing carbon-emission goals, committing to carbon-neutral growth by 2020. As the first airline to invest in biofuel production technology, Cathay Pacific Airways is leading the industry’s way. Philippe Lacamp, the company’s senior VP, shares thoughts on how to create an all-encompassing carbon reduction strategy.
On March 13, 2018, EPA administrator issued a memorandum titled Project Emissions Accounting Under the New Source Review (NSR) Preconstruction Permitting Program. This memorandum discusses an assessment the EPA has undertaken of the NSR program regarding interpretation and implementation of the preconstruction permitting requirements under the NSR provisions of the Clean Air Act. This guidance memorandum is the result of the current legislature’s priorities for
As environmental rules and regulations continue to change and uncertainties abound, the world’s top asset managers are putting increased pressure on corporate boards to release more climate-related data and include it as part of their governance systems.
A joint report from CDP and CDSB found a giant gap persists in the way companies around the world identify climate-related risks and opportunities, and how they are actually preparing to tackle them.
Analysts are saying that greater supply-chain transparency, regulator support, and engagement from ESG investors is starting to shift corporate practices in Asia.
A new agriculture certification structure, Regenerative Organic Certified, will help ensure soil health and ecological land management, model pasture-based animal welfare, create resilient regional ecosystems and communities, and provide economic
Apparel and footwear industries worldwide account for about the same amount of emissions as the European Union, a report from Quantis commissioned by the ClimateWorks Foundation has found.
A Ceres report published today analyzed how 600 of the largest US companies are faring as they try to meet key sustainability leadership expectations. The answer: not as well as the sustainability nonprofit organization had hoped. “Turning Point: Corporate Progress on the Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability” found that many of … Read more »
T. Rowe Price has published its 2016 – 2017 corporate social responsibility report. The Baltimore-based global investment management organization demonstrated reductions in greenhouse gas emissions per associate over a six-year period. Between 2010 and 2016, the firm’s total GHG emissions went down 4% and were reduced by 31% per associate, … Read more »
Investors frequently assess companies based on their sustainability data, but corporations currently lack a standardized and widely accepted framework to share that information. As major fund providers like Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock push for better ESG disclosures, new methodologies are emerging. One is an industry-specific disclosure framework from the … Read more »
