Over the last three years, carbon emissions from the top 250 emitters have been flat, although to fulfill the terms of the Paris agreement, they need to fall by 3% a year, a Thompson Reuters report says.
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The global community will meet in November in Bonn, Germany to hammer the details of a climate agreement reached in Paris in December 2015 — one that the United States had once been a part but one that it now “rejects.”
Scott Tew, executive director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability at Ingersoll Rand discusses how the company forms effective partnerships across its value stream to reduce waste and increase recyclability.
Companies are responsible for unique sets of waste streams throughout their operations and supply chain. While recycling programs can help, having a comprehensive zero waste to landfill strategy in place is an effective, reliable route to significantly reduce operational waste footprints. Rankin shares steps that can help successfully implement and deploy a zero waste to landfill strategy.
A new program embeds innovators in a national laboratory where they will develop environmentally sustainable and energy-efficient technologies that drive manufacturing growth.
Climate Week 2016 kicks off today in New York City, with international business and government leaders meeting to discuss the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The EPA recently announced its climate leadership awards, recognizing companies, organizations and partnerships for managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in internal operations and throughout the supply chain, as well as integrating climate resilience into their operating strategies. Three companies — Ingersoll Rand, Mars and Microsoft — took home organizational … Read more »
Ingersoll Rand has launched the EcoWise portfolio of products for its climate and industrial refrigerant-bearing products that are designed to lower environmental impact with next-generation, low-global-warming potential (GWP) refrigerants and high-efficiency operation. The company says these products are compatible with and can use next generation low GWP refrigerants, reduce environmental … Read more »
A diverse group of over 150 companies, including AT&T, Motorola, Siemens, Volvo and Wyndham Worldwide, have urged President Obama to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Companies signing the letter include many one would expect – fossil fuel companies such as Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Shell; utilities such … Read more »
Companies have a long way to go before the reality of integrated reporting catches up with the ambition, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey of the current reporting by large companies involved in the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) pilot program. One hundred companies across the globe are part of … Read more »
American Electric Power, Clorox, Dow Chemical, Eaton, Ingersoll Rand, Pfizer and Southwest Airlines are the only companies in the S&P 500 — just 1.4 percent of the total — with fully integrated annual financial and sustainability reports, according to a study from the IRRC Institute and the Sustainable Investments Institute … Read more »
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, a non-profit group backed by Bloomberg LP, Generation Foundation, Metanoia Fund and Rockefeller Foundation, launched this month with the goal of standardizing corporate reporting of the social and environmental performance of every publicly traded company’s operations, across 89 industries. The non-profit aims to fill a … Read more »
