carbon reduction Articles
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Meeting the carbon reduction commitments
How UK Organizations Can Approach and Meet Carbon Reduction Targets The Climate Reduction Commitment legislation represents significant opportunities for those entities that are proactive and are able to meet or exceed their carbon reduction targets. As it is expected that up to 20,000 firms in the UK will have to submit a CRC information disclosure by the summer of 2010, more education is ...
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Nearly half of UK’s top companies failing to set carbon reduction targets
Despite UK’s tough legislation on carbon, nearly half of the FTSE 100 do not have carbon reduction targets or they’re mostly short-term. The study, provided by the Carbon Trust, has found forty of the FTSE 100 either lack numerical targets on carbon emissions, or their carbon reduction targets are for previous years and have now expired, without being renewed. The carbon ...
By Vital Energi
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China argues rich countries’ carbon reduction targets are unambitious
China’s top official claims that carbon reduction targets proposed by industrialised nations should be discussed in Cancun Summit. A new discrepancy turned up today at the centre of the UN’s long-running climate change negotiations in the latest round of talks in Tianjin, when one of China's top negotiators reiterated his call for industrialised nations to adopt more ambitious carbon ...
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EU countries urged to create their own green investment banks
New report urges EU countries to replicate UK’s Green Investment Bank and to adopt 30% carbon reduction ...
By Vital Energi
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Danske Bank - Measuring the impact of carbon reduction initiatives
The Danske Bank Group is the largest financial enterprise in Denmark and one of the largest in the Nordic region, offering customers a wide range of services in the fields of banking, insurance, real-estate and asset management. Not content to lead only in financial services, Danske Bank was the first large Danish bank to set a goal of reaching Carbon Neutrality. ...
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What is the carbon reduction commitment?
The UK Carbon Reduction Commitment is a British based initiative, which is anticipated to provide a model for the rest of the world. The US Environmental Protection Agency announced shortly after introduction by the UK Department that they plan to introduce a similar scheme. The UK Carbon Reduction Commitment may sound fairly innocuous yet it represents legislation with some fairly significant ...
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Carbon reduction commitment (CRC) initiative
British CRC Program Promotes Carbon Footprint Reductions Environmental managers from thousands of UK commercial enterprises will take on a much more important role within their respective organizations when the Carbon Reduction Commitment, or CRC, comes into effect in 2010. The initiative of the British government's Department for Energy and Climate Change has been rather hurriedly introduced ...
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Carbon management strategies - a quest for corporate competitiveness
This multiple case study analysis examines the extent to which five global car manufacturers apply carbon management strategies. Following a clear business strategy standpoint, the theoretical arguments are based on a framework developed by Orsato (2006). For this context, we highlight two key differences between carbon management and general environment strategies: the option of compensation and ...
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co2balance in the community case study
Delivering an efficient carbon reduction project is just the start of the process. Education in the community is a key part of the co2 balance strategy for success. Living and working within the communities our education officers help to coach the householders to get the very best out of their new efficient stoves. co2balance education liaison officer, Wycliffe Churchill Odumo talks to some of ...
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Transport sector should up the pace to carbon reduction
New report from CDP shows that transport sector have failed to implement carbon reduction strategies compared to firms across all sectors. Transport sector should up the pace to carbon reduction New report from CDP shows that transport sector have failed to implement carbon reduction strategies compared to firms across all sectors. The transport industry was urged today to step up efforts to ...
By Vital Energi
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CDP demands higher carbon reduction targets from suppliers
New CDP report remarks supply chain management is essential to cut carbon ...
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Determinants of corporate carbon reduction targets
This paper examines attributes affecting a corporation’s choice of an intensity-only (carbon emissions relative to sales, production, etc.) versus an absolute carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions goal. We investigate alternative hypotheses for this choice including: 1) a high growth hypothesis whereby high growth companies select an intensity goal, to continue to grow without an absolute emission ...
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Determining CRC reporting requirements
All organizations must now establish, evaluate and prioritize their carbon reduction liabilities and get ready to participate in the CRC. It is estimated that some 5,000 organizations in the UK will be required to do so. The Carbon Reduction Commitment is a mandatory emissions trading scheme and will come into effect by the summer of 2010. Indeed, organizations that will be affected by the scope ...
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Why US Carbon Prices Will Be Low
Byron Swift and Aldyen Donnelly argue that the US will be a net seller of carbon. Financial signals show that the price of carbon reductions in the United States to meet the Kyoto Protocol would be low – less than $6 per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2), or $20 per ton of carbon. This low price indicates quite clearly that most US carbon reductions will be achieved domestically, international trading ...
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SAP cuts carbon emissions while increasing sales in 2010
Software giant is confident it will meet its long-term carbon reduction targets after reducing carbon emissions by 4% in 2010. SAP AG's carbon emissions fell 4% in 2010, a year in which its business software sales grew 17%. The software giant produced 103 kilatons of carbon emissions during the fourth quarter, turning out to be its best quarter in SAP history due to a 35% increase in revenue. ...
By Vital Energi
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A simple integrated model of global warming and policymaking
This paper describes a simple integrated model of global warming due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, which can be used by policy makers for quick screening of various mitigation scenarios to achieve desired carbon reduction targets. First, the constant airborne fraction model was generalised to establish a relationship between CO2 emissions and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, which was then ...
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UK Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
Energy Efficiency Reduction Bill a Benchmark for Others?The pressure has been growing on individual companies, producers and emitters of greenhouse gases to try and restrict the output. Up until this time, it has been voluntary to report carbon emissions but legal initiatives are now underway to make this mandatory. A carbon reduction bill has already been put in place in the UK and may soon come ...
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8 ways to deliver staff behaviour change
Organisations have started to recognise that to achieve energy-savings they need to engage with employees, delivering staff behaviour change. But, how can companies incentivise green behaviour? By the end of 2009, nearly a third of UK Government departments were missing their carbon reduction targets. In fact, meeting targets for saving energy, reducing waste or increasing recycling can be ...
By Vital Energi
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Equality in the home case study
A Gold Standard, high quality carbon reduction program, has to deliver significant social and welfare benefits to the community. Our time in the communities has revealed new and surprising additional social change. As is the case in many parts of East Africa, life in rural Kenya has very specific gender roles and traditions. The kitchen is the principal place for the African woman alone. The kids ...
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How to prepare for CRC reporting
2009 is the year for review and the establishment of standards. A comprehensive view of emissions inventory must be in place to act as baselines for future reporting. 2009 will be a key year for thousands of businesses within the UK as they prepare for participation in the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme initiated by the British government. Many boardroom members have translated their initial ...
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