Two U.S executives told a congressional panel that the country should encourage investment in efficiency and address climate change, perhaps by assigning a dollar cost to carbon emissions, Reuters reports.
John Rice, General Electric vice-chairman, and Daniel Esty, a professor of environmental law at Yale University both told the panel that cap-and-trade would be the best [...]
Alternative energy, environmental marketing, reusing waste, personal sustainability - these are just a few of the issues affecting business sustainability that will become more important in the coming years.
The Institute for the Future has compiled these issues and more in the Map of Future Forces Affecting Sustainability, prepared for the Global Environmental Management Initiative.
The Map [...]
Co-operative Travel has thrown down the gauntlet to other ethical and eco-travel agencies by becoming the first major operator in the industry to signal its opposition to the planned third runway at Heathrow.
The company, which is part of the Co-operative Group, outlined its opposition to the plans as part of a new environmental strategy, which [...]
UK food retailer Sainsbury’s has won the European Retail Solutions Best Green IT Initiative Award 2008 for using simultaneous two-sided thermal receipt printers from NCR Corporation in its store checkouts.
Last year Sainsbury’s became the first European retailer to start using the new printers, which use over 40 percent less paper. Printing on both sides of [...]
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Businesses will have to pay to pollute under Australian government proposals for a carbon emissions trading scheme.
Senator Penny Wong, minister for climate change and water, this month unveiled a Green Paper on the government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
She told the National Press Club in Canberra: “The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is a response to climate [...]
by Robert Barnard-Weston, 2008
So, once again, we’re in an economic downturn. After almost twenty years in Corporate Responsibility (CR), I’ve seen several of these already and they always seem to trigger the same response among corporate leaders. Those who are not doing anything decisive in CR tend to defer any plans they may have had [...]
Marks & Spencer has cut the amount of plastic bags it hands out by around 80% following its decision earlier this year to charge customers 5p per bag.
The retail giant said it had given out 70 million fewer bags over the last 10 weeks compared to the equivalent period last year.
The news is a welcome [...]
By Miriam Katz
This article will be part of a series on nuclear power. Nuclear power is starting to have a renaissance due to decreased availability of fossil fuels, environmental concerns, and climate change. According to the World Nuclear Association, China is planning to increase sixfold the amount of electricity it derives from nuclear plants by [...]
SocialFunds.com — ArcelorMittal, Citigroup, Chevron, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), ExxonMobil, Nestlé, Samsung, Shell, Total, and Wal-Mart were red-flagged by ECOFACT as the most controversial companies in the world. The companies were routinely in the news and criticized by non-governmental organizations in the first half of this year.
The Reputational Risk Index (RRI) by ECOFACT’s [...]
This weeks interview is with Anne Gadegaard Larson from the Stakeholder Relations Department of Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company and a world leader in diabetes care based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The interview:
1) Could you tell us a little bit about the history of CR reporting at Novo Nordisk?
Novo Nordisk published its first environmental report [...]
