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Preparing for a Price on Carbon: Lessons from 3 Companies
New carbon pricing systems are being developed in China, Chile and other countries to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage clean energy and sustainable development. This will mean new reporting requirements and regulations for an increasing number of national and multi-national companies. To help corporate leaders prepare, we studied the experiences of three companies that are ...
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CPI and Air Pollution - What`s your carbon footprint?
What's your carbon footprint? This month we take a deeper dive into Waste Heat Recovery. Learn about the advantages and determine your ROI on this capital investment. Use our Greenhouse Gas Calculator to determine your financial savings and your GHG emissions reductions. Access the Calculator here! Visit the E-Learning Center to learn how Waste Heat Recovery can lower cost of operation and ...
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New guidance makes corporate value chain accounting easier
An effective corporate climate change strategy requires a detailed understanding of a company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Until recently, most companies have focused on measuring emissions from their own operations and electricity consumption, using the GHG Protocol’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 framework. But what about all of the emissions a company is responsible for outside of its ...
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We need your help: take our survey on greenhouse gas accounting for the financial sector
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol recently partnered with the UNEP Finance Initiative in a critically important endeavor – developing guidance to help the financial sector measure its ”financed emissions” and track reductions. These types of emissions, which are associated with lending and investments, are the most significant part of a financial institution’s carbon ...
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Enhanced GSA Carbon Footprint Tool Simplifies Measuring, Managing, Tracking, and Sharing of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Data
U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the leader in federal sustainability initiatives, continues its commitment to a clean energy economy and a more sustainable government with the release of a new version of the GSA Carbon Footprint Tool. GSA will continue to offer the GSA Carbon Footprint Tool to all federal agencies to assist them as they compile ...
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Verdantix Says The World’s Largest Internet And Social Networking Firms Need To Fix Their Energy And Carbon Strategies
Internet and social networking firms such as Amazon, Baidu and Netflix need to adopt a more strategic approach to energy and carbon management. This is the key conclusion in a new report from independent analyst firm Verdantix. The report, Carbon Strategy Benchmark: Internet Sector, assesses the carbon and energy strategies of the world’s 14 largest internet and social networking firms. ...
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Symantec releases 2010 corporate responsibility report
Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced today that it has launched its 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report, highlighting the company's commitments and actions with respect to environmental, social and governance goals. This year's report represents the company's first web-based design, which offers increased transparency around the company's progress against its corporate responsibility goals, as well ...
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The carbon marketing wars have begun
Their logos and packaging are near clones—Lay's potato chips in the United States and Walkers crisps in the United Kingdom. The story behind the similarity is that both brands are owned by PepsiCo. But a subtle difference sets them apart. Each bag of Walkers crisps carries a label stating that 75.0 grams of carbon were emitted to produce a 34.5 gram bag of chips. In 2007, Walkers became the ...
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IDB joins EPA’s climate leaders program
The Inter-American Development Bank today announced its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders program as part of its continued commitment to upholding sustainability standards in-house. By participating in Climate Leaders, the IDB has pledged to look at ways to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, initially in its Washington, D.C. headquarters, ...
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