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This white paper from Environmental Defense Fund and fleet management company PHH Arval lays out strategies for reducing emissions from medium-duty trucks, which are responsible for more than 80...
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy studied energy efficiency programs for the industrial sector in order to catalog best practices of those that got it right. Among the critical...
Fuel switching and a shift to renewable energy allowed health care company Abbott to cut its coal and oil consumption by 15 percent last year across its global operations, relative to 2006 levels...
When it comes to addressing climate change, including measuring and reducing its carbon footprint, Whirlpool leads the pack in the large appliance sector, according to a new analysis. Similarly,...
In the latest sign that China takes the threat of global warming seriously, Chinese business executives with close ties to the government have launched a voluntary market in Beijing to buy and...
What concrete actions are firms taking to tackle climate change in 2009? The CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project offers the first in a series of sneak peeks at the forthcoming annual report.
This report details how French wine production is a climatically sensitive endeavor -- and shows that it is at great risk from environmental change.
The energy sector has to failed wake up to the threat posed by extreme weather, water shortages and rising temperatures, according to a new report.
Companies need to understand how looming carbon costs will impact their future profitability compared to their competitors in order to gauge how much can be passed on to customers without...
JohnsonDiversey sells products in more than 175 countries but has put in place a series of projects that will cut logistics-related greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter while allowing the company...
San Francisco has adopted what may be the country’s first county food policy that aims to improve access to healthy food while supporting local agriculture and reducing shipping-related greenhouse...
Tesla’s plans to build a $57,400 all-electric sedan will move forward now that the company has secured $465 million in federal loans. Tesla, along with Ford Motor Co. and Nissan North America,...
While critics worry the benefits from land use, land use change, and forestry offsets may one day be reversed, various trading programs have tried to address permanence risks with different...
While some have trouble imagining what the worst impacts of climate change will look like, the effects are apparent today and projected to get dramatically worse if nothing is done to rein in...
The International Postal Corp., a trade group representing global postal operators, said last week it would publish a report in December detailing the sector's carbon proficiency, based on 2008...
The international aviation industry has committed to “carbon neutral growth” by 2020, meaning the sector would grow without increasing its carbon footprint. A new proposal given to U.N...
A project underway at Stonyfield Farms is changing the food cows eat and finding herds' methane reductions reduced by 18 percent, while also improving cows' health and the quality of their milk....
A Worldwatch Institute report cautions against developing a climate change mitigation strategy without including agricultural and land use policies.
This report from Ceres, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Center for Energy and Environmental Security looks at how many -- or how few -- companies are reporting climate-related risks in...
President Barack Obama puts to rest today a long-running feud between the auto industry, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and more than a dozen states over the right to regulate vehicle...
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