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Microsoft, BMW Among Top Supply Chain Climate Performers

Air France, BMW, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are among 79 companies leading in climate change performance, according to a new evaluation and benchmarking tool created for CDP supply chain members and suppliers. The Supplier Climate Performance Leadership Index, which was compiled by environmental consulting and software firm FirstCarbon Solutions on behalf of ... Read more »
KPMG Survey of Corporate Responsibility

Only 10% of Firms Link CR Performance to Compensation

Even though 75 percent of the world’s 250 largest companies acknowledge that environmental and social “megaforces” such as resource scarcity and climate put their businesses at risk, only 10 percent link corporate responsibility performance to remuneration, according to a report by KPMG. The findings from the KPMG Survey of Corporate ... Read more »

Staples, HP, Marriott Staff Back Chemical Assessment Principles

Staples, Hewlett-Packard, Marriott, Timberland, Method and Seventh Generation are among the companies whose senior environmental staff have signed onto the Commons Principles for Alternatives Assessment, a framework developed by the Environmental Defense Fund, BizNGO, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute. Staples senior scientist and vice president Roger ... Read more »
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HP Supply Chain Goal: 20% GHG Cut by 2020

Hewlett-Packard says it will decrease its first-tier manufacturing and product transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions intensity 20 percent by 2020, compared to 2010. The company says its supply chain GHG goal, developed in consultation with the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Climate Savers program, is a first for the information technology industry. ... Read more »
Global Compact

Sustainability Stock Index Firms Beat Overall Market

Ford, General Electric, Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Campbell Soup are among the companies listed on a stock index of sustainability leaders launched yesterday by the UN Global Compact that shows a total investment return of 26.4 percent during the past year, surpassing the general global stock market. Companies listed on the ... Read more »
Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013

CDP Global 500: 10% of Largest Companies Produce 73% of GHGs

BMW, Daimler, Philips Electronics, Nestlé, financial firm BNY Mellon, Cisco Systems and utility Gas Natural SDG — all with perfect 100 disclosure scores and A performance ratings — top the CDP’s list of the world’s best companies in terms of climate change disclosure and performance. Honda, Nissan, Volkswagen, Hewlett-Packard and ... Read more »
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Web Tool Identifies Commercial Building Products Recycling Options

Construction Specialties and Earth911.com have launched a web tool designed to help customers locate facilities that recycle commercial building products. The C/S Recycling Locator, which debuted at the 2013 American Institute of Architects National Convention in Denver, includes a geo-locator feature that allows users to find the most convenient recycling ... Read more »

Standards & Compliance Briefing: Dell, HP, Samsung on WEEE; Texas Roadhouse’s First LEED

Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Panasonic, Toshiba, Dell and other electronics companies have called for changes to the UK’s compliance system for the EU waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) directive, saying the cost of compliance is too high, Lets Recycle reports. The companies made the statement through the Joint Trade Associations, a group ... Read more »

Enlighted Raises $20 Million

Enlighted, a company that makes sensor technology to reduce energy, has raised $20 million in Series C financing. New investor RockPort Capital led the round and was joined by new investor DFJ JAIC, along with existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Intel Capital. Enlighted says ... Read more »

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