Energy, Clean Technology (Cleantech), and Climate Change
This section covers the business of energy and climate. We examine the latest trends in climate change and business sustainability in four sections: climate, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and cleantech. Articles focus on greenhouse gas emissions, business sustainability and carbon emissions trading.
- With carbon dioxide levels past the 400-ppm threshold, risks to businesses are looming even larger, driving the needs for faster, and bigger, action.
- At last week's Living Future conference, engineers and architects discussed designing and operating buildings that achieve net zero energy use.
- A conversation with Suman Bery, chief economist of Shell International, on the stress nexus of food, energy, and water.
- It's a research-heavy week here at ICYMI HQ, with studies detailing everything from profiles of ESG professionals to solutions for sustainable cities.
- The vast majority of clean energy investment not coming from VCs is actually a positive indicator for the maturation of clean energy markets.
- In this Q&A, the author of "The Upside of Down" shares how his concept of societal resilience can help companies prepare for change.
- Footwear company's greenENERGY Fund invests in a portfolio of efficiency projects that target a strict 20 percent annual return on capital.
- Cheryl Martin, deputy director of the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy talks energy innovation at the 2013 VERGE conference in Boston.
- Large commercial and residential buildings must report annual energy and water use, but aren't required to act on the results.
- In this week's sustainability news roundup, we find big progress on climate policy, big commitments from a UK retailer and competition in the big home-energy market.
- New guidance from the GHG Protocol on value chain emissions marks an important milestone for companies looking to track the business benefits of emissions reductions.
- The $20 million dollar fund will focus on companies that share its environmental values with a focus on clothing, food, water, energy, and waste.
- The federal government estimates we can save $40 billion annually by reducing energy use in commercial buildings 20 percent by 2020.
- A new report shows corporate sustainability is moving from eco-efficiency to risk reduction and mitigation.
- Replacing the energy being generated by a New York nuclear plant is a thorny problem for the state and Con Edison.
- The Texas capital's program to spur small green businesses is also providing a boost to its economy.
- Caesars Entertainment has used an initiative that spans its global operations to engage employees on sustainability at every level.
- This week we find good green news from some of the world's biggest companies, ways to green cattle ranching, and one last, supremely bad Earth Day pitch.
- Despite some big gains, most high-tech companies still lag on clean power adoption and political advocacy for clean energy policies.
- Climate change and natural resources have begun moving into the realm of financial risk that companies need to understand and appropriately value.
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