NEW YORK, N.Y. — In its second annual Plenty 20 listings of individuals and companies taking great strides on environmental issues, Plenty magazine recognizes the work of activists, authors, experts, certification groups and businesses large and small.
The 20 companies that made the cut represent the range of innovation taking place across all industries. IBM, Home [...]
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BEIJING, CN — Companies operating in China are to face tough new green legislation after the country’s top legislature passed a package of laws designed to underpin the government’s climate change strategy.
Over the past year, the Chinese government has set out a range of targets designed to shrug off its tag as the world’s largest [...]
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Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell faces damaging claims over its influence on a supposedly independent environmental audit to determine whether the world’s biggest oil and gas project would receive vital bank funding.
Dozens of emails released by the government under the Freedom of Information Act show how Shell officials in London attempted to downplay and edit [...]
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BP, BHP Billiton and Shell have all made the shortlist of winners for Association of Chartered Certified Accountants annual UK Sustainability Reporting Awards.
The event which is in its 17th year has now broadened to include 20 countries worldwide such as Australia and Europe.
Rachel Jackson, head of social and environmental issues at ACCA said: ‘As the [...]
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ENDS Europe Daily, 27 August 2008 - Management consultancy Accenture looked at 120 large companies in Norway, Denmark Finland and Sweden with a turnover above €80m. Nine out of ten of the firms had implemented environmental programmes.
Seventy per cent of the firms with green programmes achieved cost reductions, 39 per cent showed revenue growth, [...]
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Last week the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) agreed to set aside up to $27 million for electric utilities as an incentive to develop cost-effective programs to assist consumers in improving energy efficiency and reduce anticipated increases in consumer electricity bills.
At current trends, by 2015 electric energy usage in New York is [...]
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SAM, the sustainability investment specialist, and Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, have added four additional blue-chip indexes to the family of Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). The new indexes provide market participants with tools to track sustainability leaders in the U.S., North America and globally.
The methodology for the new indexes applies the [...]
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The U.K. manufacturing sector has an overall positive view of environmental issues, with a majority of companies taking action, but smaller companies are having a tougher times, according to a recent survey.
Envirowise and EEF talk to 562 companies for the report “Measuring performance - Environment survey 2008.” The manufacturing companies represent more than 122,000 employees. [...]
Boards of directors are increasingly starting to integrate social and environmental considerations (CSR) into their strategy and risk management, according to the report “The Role of the Board of Directors in Corporate Social Responsibility” by the Conference Board of Canada, a non-profit that researches business and economic trends.
The report finds that the Canadian companies concentrate [...]
Despite growing efforts to measure their carbon emissions, almost 75 per cent of firms’ carbon footprints are typically going unrecorded, according to a new study from Carnegie Mellon University.
The research, published last week, claimed that the majority of firms publishing greenhouse gas emissions data are failing to account for the carbon impact of their supply [...]
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