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A ruling last week finalizes a tentative decision in lat January that concluded that the state violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it approved a Scoping Plan to carry out the state's climate change law.
March 25, 2011 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Climate-friendly policies in places like China and Germany helped to push clean energy investment to record levels in 2010, according to Deutsche Bank, whose recent white paper offers a framework to help asset managers understand and manage climate change risks.
February 23, 2011 by ClimateBiz Staff
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The Volvo Group, whose brands include Mack Trucks, Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks and UD Trucks, has become the world's first vehicle manufacturer to join the WWF Climate Leaders program. Volvo truck companies have vowed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produced over the lifetime of the trucks they manufacture through 2014 by 13 million tons.
November 5, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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The EPA announced it will redesign its label for new cars to make it easier for consumers to buy the cleanest, most fuel efficient models. But in a recent poll, the two label designs proposed by the EPA confused consumers, who cared more about gas mileage and fuel costs than the new environmental information the EPA now wants to include.
September 30, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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The country's climate-related revenues in 2009 have put China among the top 10 countries for the first time, according to HSBC's third annual review of its Climate Change Index. Fueling the momentum is a 30-fold increase in private sector investment and targeted climate-related stimulus spending.
September 17, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Deutsche Bank is taking its green investment dollars to China and Western Europe, citing a lack of regulatory certainy in the U.S. following Congress's failure to pass federal climate change legislation.
August 13, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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The number of environmentally-focused shareholder resolutions filed with public companies continued growing in the 2010 proxy season as investors sought more disclosure and action on risks related to climate change and energy.
July 8, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Data is beginning to roll in for the pilot test of an eagerly anticipated new standard for supply chain greenhouse gas accounting from the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
June 1, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Reversing course from a landmark decision made one year ago, insurance regulators on Sunday backed off plans to require insurers to disclose the risks they face from climate change. Official policy now allows insurers to voluntarily offer the information, which will remain private.
March 31, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Most climate and sustainability data reported by some of the world's largest companies suffer from a credibility gap, a new report found, largely because companies fail to have the information verified.
March 30, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Investment portfolios around the world are filled with "hidden risks" because their managers do not consider climate change when making investment decisions -- largely because asset owners aren't asking them to.
January 6, 2010 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Investor advocates are hailing a Securities and Exchange Commission decision Tuesday that will make it easier for shareholders to request climate change risk dislcosure from public companies.
October 28, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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The company also launched a new contract service to calculate the carbon footprint of individual customers' shipping activities.
October 6, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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The rule will cover about 14,000 power plants, refineries and factories that produce large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, requiring them to install the most up-to-date pollution control devices.
October 6, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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A private-public partnership led by the Institute for Sustainable Communities will open a second academy in China that will teach factory managers to make their supply chains less carbon-intensive.
September 28, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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A combination of data center energy efficiency, renewable energy and promotion of more environmentally friendly behavior will be used to cut eBay’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2012.
September 22, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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In its 2008 corporate sustainability report, UPS sets a hard target for emissions reductions in what it says is the world's ninth-largest airline, and lays out how a steady focus on efficiency is trimming the company's footprint.
July 9, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Carbon-intensive mutual funds will become big losers in a carbon-constrained economy because a price on emissions will increase the cost of doing business for the companies in their portfolios, according to Trucost, which ranked the country's largest funds based on their carbon footprints.
April 8, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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The day before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins hearings on its decision to prevent California from regulating tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions, global agencies called on automakers around the world to boost fuel economy by 50 percent to fight climate change.
March 4, 2009 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Fiji Water has revealed the carbon footprint of its entire supply chain as well as plans to reduce emissions, reduce materials used and help reforest Fiji.
April 16, 2008 by ClimateBiz Staff
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SC Johnson said Tuesday that it has chosen natural gas and waste methane from a public landfill over coal to power its largest manufacturing plant.
August 28, 2007 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Office Depot lowered its absolute carbon dioxide emissions 10.1 percent in 2006 by reducing energy consumption in its North American retail stores, warehouses and offices, the company announced Tuesday.
August 28, 2007 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Grays Harbor Paper LP joined the Department of Ecology's Industrial Footprint Project last week, agreeing to supply data to help the agency measure a major manufacturing facility's impact on the environment and community.
August 12, 2007 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Dole Food Co. announced plans Friday to make its banana and pineapple supply chain carbon neutral.
August 9, 2007 by ClimateBiz Staff
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Within the next five years, the European corporate community expects climate change to top its agenda, according to a new survey.
July 24, 2007 by ClimateBiz Staff