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CO2 emissions from energy production in 2010 were the highest in history following a recessionary dip the year before, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a stark announcement.
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Global sustainability spending will soar 50 percent to 100 percent between 2011 and 2013, predicted research firm Verdantix.
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A $15.2 million budget shortfall prompted the U.S. Energy Information Administration to announce the suspension, reduction or termination of several programs, including its annual greenhouse gas inventory, upgrades to the National Energy Modeling System and updates to the International Energy Statistics.
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In its quarterly sustainability update released Monday, SAP AG revealed that its sustainability efforts since 1998 are paying off handsomely for the business software maker.
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The telecommunications giant began testing the new metric over the last year. The metric tracks the amount of carbon dioxide emissions produced while moving a terabyte of data.
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Record temperatures and an increase in business travel as the economy recovered crimped the outdoor gear company's plans to halve its 2006 carbon footprint by 2010.
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A carbon footprint analysis of its value chain revealed that 40 percent of its overall emissions can be found in its supply chain, while another 40 percent are produced by customer use of its inhalers.
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Green power, low-carbon employee commuting and energy efficiency are helping the business software giant shrink its carbon footprint.
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A supply chain carbon footprint analysis revealed that manufacturing is Sprint Nextel's largest hotspot. Now the company will engage these suppliers to manage their emissions -- before asking them to have their own suppliers do the same.
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BT now expects its roughly 6,000 contracted suppliers to have a climate change policy in place, actively measure and report their emissions, and set challenging targets to reduce emissions, while also reporting on their progress.
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A year after the SEC directed public companies to disclose climate change-related risks and opportunities, a new report finds disclosure has improved incrementally, but still leaves a lot to be desired.
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Rupert Murdoch revealed today that his media empire achieved carbon neutral status in late 2010. News Corp., home to a range of properties such as the Fox News Channel and MySpace, also unveiled a mix of short-term and aspirational long-term goals to guide its environmental efforts moving forward.
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The number of resolutions filed for oil, coal and electric power companies soared 50 percent as shareholders focused on an energy sector faced with growing regulatory action.
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Global participants in the second annual Carbon Salary Survey from recruiting company Acre Resources and consulting firm Acona had an average annual salary was $79,000, about $3,000 higher than last year.
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Preliminary data shows SAP AG's greenhouse gas emissions fell 4 percent in 2010, a year in which its business software sales grew 17 percent
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Following various stages of pilot testing, JouleX Energy Manager version 2.5 includes features such as opt-in capability, a smart mobile application that allows workers to turn their electronic devices on or off, and the ability to save energy in the data center with load-adaptive computing, a phrase coined by the company to describe the rerouting of resources to specific functions or processes as needed.
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Greenhouse gas software and services firm FirstCarbon Solutions launched a subsidiary last week to help companies meet their broader energy and sustainability needs.
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Oracle has added features to two products in a bid to make it easier for companies to manage their energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and e-waste. The moves are part of Oracle's long-term goal of providing a common set of metrics and analytics across a range of sustainability data sources.
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Following in the footsteps of Walmart, IBM and Procter and Gamble, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officially kicked off a project this week to size up the carbon footprint of its supply chain with the help of Climate Earth and UC Berkeley.
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Some say the bill could be as good as it gets for the business community, in terms of comparisons to previous bills, financial support, and something many businesses have been yearning for: certainty.
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Over the last several decades, the relationship between NGOs and companies has steadily evolved from antagonism to cooperation. Businesses have realized they need NGO support for what has become a competitive issue. At the same time, NGOs understand that major change can't be achieved without the business community.
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The nation's first federal rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles stand to save the country's corporate fleets billions of dollars from improved fuel economy.
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With climate scientists warning that greenhouse gas emissions must decline upwards of 80 percent by 2050 to avoid catastrophic climate change, some like Salvatore Gabola are calling for businesses to move past normalized reduction targets to lower their total carbon footprints.
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The Northern California utility said today it is leaving the Chamber over what it calls an extreme position on climate change. Just weeks before, Duke Energy and Alstom Power left another trade group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy (ACCCE), over its efforts to defeat the climate bill working its way through Congress.
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Unwanted, thrown away food in the San Francisco Bay Area soon find new life as electricity. The East Bay Municipal District plans to dramatically boost the amount of food scraps it converts to energy via anaerobic digestion from 90 tons per week to 1,000 tons, or 200 tons per weekday.