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Wal-Mart scrutinizes supply-chain sustainability
The world’s largest economies have “clearly ignored” the findings of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations scientific body that evaluates climate change when formulating their recent proposals on slashing greenhouse gases, a top official said. It was a “big step” for leaders of over one dozen developed nations attending the Major Economies Forum (MEF) – including the Group of Eight (G8) nations and others – on 9 July meeting in L’Aquila, Italy, to recognize that the global average temperature should not increase by more than 2 degrees centigrade, Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the UN Intergovernmental ... |
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Samsung Electronics to invest US$4.3bn in green transformation
South Korea`s Samsung Electronics has said it will invest $4.3bn (£2.6bn) as part of an initiative to develop new energy-efficient products and halve carbon emissions from its factories by 2013.
The consumer electronics giant has unveiled its Eco-Management 2013 plan, under which it will spend $2.5bn on improving the energy efficiency of its products – including TVs, refrigerators and air conditioning systems – with a goal of delivering the highest levels of efficiency in the consumer electronics industry.
Under the plan, standby power consumption on many products will also be halved ... |
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