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Employee Engagement in Sustainability Initiatives Helps Bottom Line

March 29, 2013March 29, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bank of America’s My Environment employee initiative grew to 12,000 active employee participants in 26 countries within two years of its inception — just one example of how companies are engaging employees in sustainability initiatives and reaping financial benefits, according to a report by Jones Lang LaSalle. The financial services ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell Drilling, Bee Vote, Enbridge Cleanup, $2.5m Pharma Penalty

March 15, 2013June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

Shell must provide a detailed plan addressing safety and operational issues that thwarted its efforts to extract oil in the Arctic Ocean last year if it wants to resume drilling off the coast of Alaska, the Interior Department said. Shell has already announced that it will not return to the Arctic ... Read more »

Cisco, IBM, Intel Win Climate Leadership Awards

March 1, 2013March 1, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Intel, Cisco Systems and IBM are among the 23 Climate Leadership Award winners selected by the EPA, the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) and The Climate Registry (TCR). The second annual awards honor companies, organizations and individuals that reduce GHG emissions ... Read more »

Democrats Canvas Walmart, NFL, Apple on Climate Change Strategies

February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Leon Walker

Congressional Democrats’ Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change has written to Google, the NBA, the NFL, Walmart, Wells Fargo, the Clinton Global Initiative and more than 300 other organizations to canvas their opinions on combating global warming. The letter, which was also sent to companies including Whole Foods, Target, Ford, ... Read more »

Suppliers Trail Multinationals in Sustainability

January 22, 2013January 22, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

A persistent gap exists between the sustainable business practices of multinational corporations and their suppliers, highlighting a lack of preparation to respond to climate change and the near-term risks it presents to businesses, according to research published by the Carbon Disclosure Project and Accenture. The study “Reducing Risk and Driving ... Read more »

Waterfree Urinals to Save Bard Over 500,000 Gallons

November 8, 2012November 8, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bard College has replaced its flushing urinals with Falcon Waterfree Technologies urinals, which will save more than 500,000 gallons of water a year, according to the waterfree urinals maker. These water savings, the school says, will increase Bard’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) score, which measures how environmentally ... Read more »

Bank of America Sustainability Report: Net CO2 Emissions Drop 7%

August 16, 2012August 16, 2012 by Leon Walker

Bank of America’s net Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions fell almost 7 percent from 2010 to 2011, but its revenues dropped by over 15 percent in that year, according to the company’s 2011 sustainability report. In 2011, the two combined scopes fell from 1.8 million to just under 1.7 ... Read more »

Bank of America to Cut Energy Use 25%, as Part of $50bn Environmental Initiative

June 12, 2012June 13, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bank of America says it will reduce its energy consumption 25 percent by 2015, compared to 2004 levels, equal to eliminating 1.2 million MWh of annual energy use from its portfolio. Also by 2015, BoA plans to reduce its paper and water consumption by 20 percent, compared with 2010 consumption, ... Read more »

Most Respected U.S Companies Revealed

April 5, 2012April 5, 2012 by Leon Walker

Food company General Mills has unseated Amazon as the most respected large company among U.S. consumers, according to research by the Reputation Institute – in the same year that the cereal maker dropped off Ethisphere’s Most Ethical Companies list. In the just-released 2012 U.S. RepTrak Pulse study of 150 companies, ... Read more »

North America Lags on Supplier Emission Cuts

February 1, 2012February 2, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

North American suppliers are likely to fall behind in the race to capitalize on climate change opportunities, scoring a D average on emissions performance compared to the C average for European and Asian suppliers, according to research published today by the Carbon Disclosure Project and Accenture. A New Era: Supplier ... Read more »

Most Climate-Responsible Companies Revealed; Scores up 54% in 4 Years

December 7, 2011December 7, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Unilever has bumped Nike from its perch as the top company for climate responsibility, in the Climate Counts 2011 review. After holding the top spot for three years, Nike falls to fourth in the rankings, which also show that average Climate Count scores have improved 54 percent since 2007, with ... Read more »

JPMorgan, Citi, BofA Slammed Over Coal Investment

December 1, 2011December 2, 2011 by Leon Walker

JP Morgan Chase, Citi and Bank of America have been branded the worst three “climate killers” in the financial sector over their large-scale investments in coal industries, in a report by German green group Urgewald, South African organizations GroundWork and Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and international financial sector monitor BankTrack. Figures in ... Read more »

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