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International shipping is one of the worst climate change contributors — but there's minimal accountability on the high seas for emissions.
by Henrik Selin
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With 47,000 ships and 3 million trucks transporting goods around the world, opportunities to reduce our impact abound.
by Nate Berg
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Transportation generates about a quarter of all energy-related emissions. By using low-carbon fuels, trucking can play a big role in carbon reduction.
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Optimization, upgrades and more fuel efficient vessels helps one of world's largest emitters cut its footprint.
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Coca-Cola, Carrier, UTC and the Pacific Northwest National Lab want to reduce the environmental effect of refrigerated trucks and warehouses.
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New North American regulations affecting emissions from ocean shipping has already produced results, and is the latest step in reducing the carbon footprint created by the transportation industry. But not everyone is happy with the new rules.
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The EPA just set its first rules to regulate pollution from natural-gas fracking. Here's how all the debate and activity is already driving change for energy, manufacturing and transportation companies.
by Adam Aston
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Cloud computing could redefine the way we think about business ethics and sustainability. Here's how the cloud could affect two of our biggest sustainability challenges: climate change and human rights.
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The CDP's brand-new 2012 supply chain report tracks the impressive economic savings that companies that manage their scope 3 emissions are earning -- but also highlights how few companies are taking advantage of these benefits.
by Frances Way
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Heavy-duty trucks, the workhorses of commerce, are integral to the supply chain of every business. The movement to reduce their impact on the environment is huge. Here's what a major industry player is doing to help.
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The new rules are the third set of strict efficiency and emissions standards put in place by the Obama Administration to cover cars, light-duty trucks, and now heavy-duty vehicles.
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How did that get there? It's a question that I've found myself asking at lot these days. Goods movement, freight, logistics -- call it what you will. Regardless of name, it's the source of a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.
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The billionaire's new NGO, Carbon War Room, puts the global shipping industry's massive carbon footprint under the spotlight, and spread the word about simple ways to shrink its impact.
by Marc Gunther
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Today, Walmart made its first major commitment to reduce greenhouse gases -- but in typical fashion, rather than set a tough goal that might affect its own growth curve, the company plans to turn up the pressure on its thousands of suppliers to reduce their emissions.
by Marc Gunther
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Organizers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics deserve only a bronze medal for environmentalism, according to a Canadian green group.
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From telepresence to transportation to the smart grid, technological innovations are driving companies toward a low-carbon economy.
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The company also launched a new contract service to calculate the carbon footprint of individual customers' shipping activities.
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In a wide-ranging and in-depth 90-minute conversation with Joel Makower, Rand Waddoups, Walmart's Senior Director for Sustainability explores the knowns and unknowns driving the retailer's Sustainability Index.
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Through a congestion charge levied on drivers in Stockholm, Sweden, IBM has managed to cut traffic by 18 percent, reduce emissions by more than 14 percent, and generate the equivalent of US$84 million in infrastructure revenue every year.
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A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
by Joel Makower