» Government cans personal carbon trading
9/May/2008 12:53 from BusinessGreen Blog
Andrew Charlesworth, BusinessGreen , Friday 9 May 2008 at 12:53:00 Defra report says scheme would be too unpopular and set-up costs would outweigh financial gains The UK government has backed away from a carbon-trading scheme for all citizens. The Personal Carbon Trading Initiative, floated by David Milliband in November 2006 when he was environment secretary,... > Read the full article
» Lean, Green, Risk Machines
8/May/2008 16:56 from BusinessGreen Blog
Victoria Pennington, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 16:56:00 In the second in our series on green banking, Victoria Pennington explores how reputational risks are forcing financial services firms to embrace the environmental agenda "It could be argued that big business got us into this mess, but they are also likely to be the ones that get us out of it in the end,"... > Read the full article
» US pumps further $126m into carbon storage
8/May/2008 15:53 from BusinessGreen Blog
BusinessGreen Staff, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 15:53:00 Department of Energy to fund two major projects to assess suitability of geological formations as carbon stores Geological formations across the US have the potential to hold up to three trillion metric tonnes of captured carbon dioxide, representing enough capacity to store all the carbon emissions from... > Read the full article
» CEOs urge G8 to take action on water
8/May/2008 13:28 from BusinessGreen Blog
BusinessGreen Staff, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 13:28:00 "Water is not just an environmental issue - it is a poverty and development issue, an economic issue, and therefore a business issue" The chief executives of some of the world's largest companies have this week urged the G8 to step up efforts to tackle water scarcity and improve sanitation in developing countries,... > Read the full article
» Postal industry unveils carbon footprint plans
8/May/2008 13:00 from BusinessGreen Blog
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 13:00:00 UN and Universal Postal Union team up to help promote environmental best practices to postal services worldwide The global postal industry has this week unveiled ambitious plans to measure its carbon footprint, and instigate a range of initiatives to slash its environmental impact.... > Read the full article
» Government accused of fudging environmental targets
8/May/2008 11:33 from BusinessGreen Blog
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 11:33:00 Think tank claims over half of the government's green targets likely to be missed The government's strategy of setting environmental targets is failing to deliver results with 60 per cent of the goals set since 1997 either already missed, likely to be missed or... > Read the full article
» Floating islands promise ocean clean up
8/May/2008 10:12 from BusinessGreen Blog
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 10:12:00 Artificial islands use pollution-eating microbes to suck up toxins from lakes and oceans Floating Island International has opened a manufacturing plant in California to create floating islands that it hopes will clean up inland water and oceans.... > Read the full article
» CBI calls for carbon credit cash to be ring fenced
8/May/2008 09:51 from BusinessGreen Blog
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 09:51:00 Business leaders urge government to reinvest revenue raised from carbon credit auctions in green initiatives An influential coalition of environmental and business leaders has today sent an open letter to Gordon Brown calling on him to ensure that money raised from auctioning carbon emission permits... > Read the full article
» How banking got green
8/May/2008 09:41 from BusinessGreen Blog
Victoria Pennington, BusinessGreen , Thursday 8 May 2008 at 09:41:00 In the first of a three-part series, Victoria Pennington explores how environmental issues are impacting the financial services industry and informing banks' credit and market risk assessments The fallout from the subprime crisis permeated - and travelled across - all risk types. From the seeds of operational risk failures in underwriting processes, problems migrated to credit and... > Read the full article
» Labour failing to hit green targets, thinktank claims
8/May/2008 08:54 from Guardian Unlimited Environment: Corporate social responsibility
The government is set to miss more than half the targets it has set on environmental issues since 1997, according to research
» IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing
8/May/2008 07:18 from Environmental Leader
IBM, GlaxoSmithKline and Herman Miller have found a positive return-on-investment for environmentally friendly purchasing, purchasing.com reports. IBM takes a multitier approach to implementing environmentally friendly policy and says it integrates a green ethos into all aspects of what it does, according to the article Between the years of 1990 and 2006, IBM reduced its electrical [...]
» Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency
8/May/2008 07:03 from Environmental Leader
Colgate-Palmolive has published its sustainability report. In 2007, Colgate’s global CO2 emissions were approximately 675,000 metric tons, up from 664,000 in 2006. From 1998 through 2007, the company reduced the amount of energy needed to produce a ton of product by approximately 28% and reduced the amount of water required by approximately 42%. It’s 2002 to 2010 [...]
» Millipore Aims to Cut Carbon Footprint by 20 Percent
8/May/2008 07:00 from GreenBiz.com
Millipore Corp. unveiled a goal on Wednesday to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 percent during the next five years. The initiative will take aim at the its consumption of non-renewable resources and production of waste, as well as introduce programs that will foster behavioral changes conducive to environmental sustainability.
» Calif. Ports Plan to Switch 8,000 Trucks to Liquefied Natural Gas
8/May/2008 07:00 from GreenBiz.com
As part of a multi-pronged approach to clean up the air at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, about half of the 16,000 diesel trucks that serve the waterfront will be replaced with ones that run on liquefied natural gas.
» Fiji Water, tacos and going “green”
8/May/2008 07:00 from GreenBiz.com
As a reporter covering business and the environment, I don’t want to let the perfect become the enemy of the good. We should cheer, or at least politely applaud, the small changes that companies make to lighten their environmental footprint. But we ought not to fool ourselves into believing that incremental change is adequate to the tasks ahead—of slowing down climate change, dealing with water issues, or eventually making our economy sustainable.
» CVS Adopts Cosmetics Safety Policy, Reduces Waste and Energy Use
8/May/2008 07:00 from GreenBiz.com
Pharmacy retailer CVS Caremark plans to phase out toxic chemicals from its house-branded products in favor of safer alternatives. The company detailed the new policy in its first Corporate Social Responsibility report that was released earlier this week. The policy was formally adopted earlier this year.
» Millipore To Slice Emissions 20 Percent
8/May/2008 06:32 from Environmental Leader
The Billerica, Mass.-based life-sciences equipment maker Millipore said it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent over the next five years by closing some small, less efficient manufacturing plants, constructing buildings that are more energy efficient, and upgrading old facilities to use less energy, the Boston Globe reports. Replacing its fleet of vehicles with [...]
» Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
8/May/2008 06:16 from Environmental Leader
CEOs believe that customer expectations around corporate social responsibility are increasing, and CSR will play an important role in differentiating an enterprise in the future, according to IBM’s new Global CEO Study. Customers are coalescing around organizations’ CSR profile — including, but not limited to “green” initiatives — and are increasingly demanding socially-minded products, services, [...]
» Pepsi’s Thinner Bottles Save Plastic, Help Environment
8/May/2008 05:42 from Environmental Leader
A 20-percent reduction in plastic used to make Pepsi’s 500ml flavored non-carbonated beverage bottles has resulted in its lightest bottle yet. The move will eliminate approximately 20 million pounds of waste a year from the environment and save the company money in the long-term. In addition to a 20 percent reduction in the plastic resin, Pepsi has [...]
» CEOs Call On G8 To Act On Global Water Crisis
8/May/2008 04:39 from Environmental Leader
The CEOs of 19 of the world’s largest corporations have called on G8 leaders to address the global crisis in water and sanitation during the July 7-9 Hokkaido Toyako Summit in Japan.. The business leaders endorsed the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate, launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007. According to the letter, “It [...]
