carbon reduction News
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International Service Company Serco Turns to Greenstone for Carbon Accounting Reporting Tool
Online reporting empowers organisation to model the carbon impact of future business scenarios and benchmark performance with speed and accuracy. Greenstone Carbon Management, the global specialist carbon solutions company, has announced today that it is working with Serco, one of the world"s leading service companies with 70,000 employees delivering essential services to governments and private ...
By Greenstone+
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Greenstone & The CarbonNeutral Company partner to assess carbon emissions for PayPoint
Greenstone Carbon Management, the global specialist carbon solutions company, and The CarbonNeutral Company, a world leading provider of carbon reduction solutions, today announced that they are working with PayPoint to monitor its carbon emissions. PayPoint is the UK’s leading retail network for handling the payment of household bills and mobile top-ups and manages an average 10 million ...
By Greenstone+
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Best Foot Forward and the CarbonNeutral Company Partnership Aims to Improve Small Business` Access to Certified Carbon Management
A partnership between The CarbonNeutral Company and sustainability consultants Best Foot Forward will provide a streamlined solution for small businesses to achieve CarbonNeutral® certification. Small businesses are increasingly seeking ways to prove their environmental credentials to their customers as they consider emissions throughout the supply chain. The online CarbonNeutral Footprint ...
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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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CCL – Climate Change Levy
ENMAT provides Climate Change Agreement Performance Tracking facilities to monitor and record specific energy consumption against set milestones. ENMAT provides CCA Performance Tracking reports based on primary energy electricity, gas and production outputs. We can estimate reduction targets for future milestone periods and provide a emissions cost ...
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Research reveals lack of emissions reduction targets for many FT 500 companies
The Ethical Corporation Institute has launched a new report on how the FT 500 are reporting their GHG emissions to stakeholders. The report is one of a collection of practical reports on climate change produced for the business community. ‘Corporate GHG emissions reporting 2008’ shows staggering inconsistencies in how companies calculate and verify their emissions, with the companies reporting to ...
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What can we learn from the first CRC Performance League Table?
Viewpoint from Darran Messem, Director, Carbon Trust Certification, and Hugh Jones, Managing Director, Carbon Trust Advisory The UK has been one of the most proactive countries in tackling business emissions and climate change and the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is one of the latest innovative policy developments. The CRC widens the scope of businesses that are directly covered by emissions ...
By Carbon Trust
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Introducing Watershed Supply Chain
Today, we’re launching Watershed Supply Chain, the first solution dedicated to helping businesses reduce carbon emissions at scale across their supply chain. Our goal is to make measuring, understanding, and reducing emissions across businesses’ supply chains fast, easy, and effective. For most companies, emissions from supplier and vendor activities make up a significant share of ...
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Carbon Trust launches new service to verify company carbon footprints
Footprint Verification service gives assurance for annual reporting and disclosure to stakeholders Today, the Carbon Trust launches Footprint Verification, a new service that will provide companies and organisations with independent verification of their corporate carbon footprints. The service has been launched to help companies and organisations manage the increasing demand for robust carbon ...
By Carbon Trust
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IETA statement on ICAO Council’s adoption of MRV Rules for Emissions Reductions
IETA welcomes the ICAO Council's adoption this week of monitoring, reporting and verification rules for its CORSIA global offsetting system. CORSIA, or the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, is the first global sectoral emissions reduction system. Airlines will be required to calculate annually the emissions from their flights and buy carbon offsets equivalent to ...
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Nomura select Greenstone for Energy and Carbon Management
Greenstone Carbon Management, the global carbon solutions specialist, has announced today that it has secured a contract with Nomura, the global investment bank, to help measure, manage and report its carbon emissions across the Bank’s operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Greenstone Carbon Management’s Acco2unt software will allow Nomura to address its complex carbon ...
By Greenstone+
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Full disclosure: A report on sustainability and CSR reporting
Is your business considering sustainability or corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting? What will it be: CERES? GRI? CDP? FRP? A4S? WBCSD? Or IIRC? Phew. That’s a lot of acronyms for what’s really a simple premise: reporting on sustainability and CSR data to stakeholders and the public at large. The above organizations are all associated with voluntary reporting frameworks ...
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Full disclosure: A report on reporting
Is your business considering sustainability or corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting? What will it be: CERES? GRI? CDP? FRP? A4S? WBCSD? Or IIRC? Phew. That’s a lot of acronyms for what’s really a simple premise: reporting on sustainability and CSR data to stakeholders and the public at large. The above organizations are all associated with voluntary reporting frameworks ...
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Verdantix announces smart vendors of Carbon Management Software
Firms and large public sector organizations face increasing pressure from energy costs and climate change regulations to measure, manage and analyze energy and carbon dioxide emissions data. To resolve this cost and compliance challenge a new report from Verdantix, the independent business research firm, highlights ten “Smart Vendors” that offer software solutions for carbon ...
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QED Environmental Systems Partners with UPS® for Carbon Neutral Shipping
Q.E.D Environmental Systems, Inc. (QED), a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc. (NYSE:GGG), has struck a Carbon Neutral Services Agreement with United Parcel Service (UPS®) in order to mitigate the environmental impact of shipping products to customers. UPS® will use its carbon emissions calculator to determine the CO2 emissions of ...
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Americans` carbon emissions twice as big as others, says new MIT research
Whether you live in a mansion or you are homeless on the street, whether you enjoy eating only raw fruits and vegetables or you must have filet mignon, whether you are a jet-setter or a home-bound retiree - anyone who lives in the United States contributes more than twice as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as the per capita global average. A class at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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DP World selects Greenstone for online Carbon Management Tool
In line with its commitment to reduce its carbon footprint significantly across its 50 marine terminals across the world, DP World has become the first global port operator to roll out Greenstone Carbon Management and The CarbonNeutral Company’s carbon management and reduction solution newly developed for the ports and marine sector. The move comes as part of the global ...
By Greenstone+
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Xcel Energy Continues to Lead the Way in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Xcel Energy is leading the way in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and is now the first U.S. utility to verify and register all of its greenhouse gas emissions data with The Climate Registry for seven consecutive years. The company’s emissions reporting validates Xcel Energy’s more than 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in the last decade. “Xcel Energy pledged ...
By Xcel Energy
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Green innovations could cut carbon emissions from road projects by a third
Carbon emissions from Dutch road networks could be reduced by almost a third if more innovative materials and processes were used, a new study suggests. Researchers assessed the potential benefits associated with 10 innovations in road construction and maintenance, and compared them to conventional materials and processes. In order to meet its emissions goals, the EU transport sector must reduce ...
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Measures to Reduce Aviation, Shipping Emissions in the Spotlight
Efforts seeking to reduce emissions from the aviation and shipping sectors got a boost in recent weeks. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) adopted a new emissions standard for aircraft, and the European Commission put forward proposals addressing emissions from both the aviation and shipping sectors. Emissions from the aviation and shipping sectors account for 2% and 2.5% of ...
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