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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.
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The utility giant revealed today it would invest nearly $5 billion through 2015 on a range of clean energy and efficiency projects as part of a broader effort and strategy dubbed Exelon 2020, which revolves around "reducing, offsetting or displacing" 15.7 million metric tons of emissions annually by 2020.
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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.
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Global postal operators cut emissions 7 percent last year, putting the sector on track to meet its 2020 climate goal of reducing its carbon footprint by 20 percent.
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A webcast convened by GreenBiz.com explores how companies and municipalities are measuring resource use at the macro level -- and finding huge savings in the process.
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A combination of better energy efficiency, low carbon fuel switching and green power helped Abbott meet its 2011 climate change goal two years early.
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Based on 2007-2009 data, companies on Standard and Poor's 100 index will not only miss the 2020 target, their absolute emissions will actually increase if trends continue. The gap is even greater between projected emissions and the deep cuts recommended by Integovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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A new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change highlights how leading companies have embraced energy efficiency goals and lays out the steps that any firm can take to reduce their energy use and increase savings and benefits.
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The desire to be environmentally friendly and the promise of saving money through improved efficiency were cited in a recent survey as the most significant drivers for companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Hitachi Consulting and Autodesk have selected SAP's Carbon Impact on-demand solution to support their sustainability initiatives.<br />
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A group of companies and nonprofits that includes Nike, Starbucks and Ceres launched a virtual coast-to-coast race Tuesday in a bid to create momentum for passing U.S. climate change legislation.
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The League of Conservation Voters highly praised U.S. President Barack Obama for superlative work to foster clean energy and curb climate change during his first year in office -- and then gave the nation's chief executive a B+ for his efforts.
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Although the U.K.'s 100 largest companies are making headway toward the country's climate change goals as a whole, its most carbon-intensive industries are lagging with emissions reduction targets that fall short of national goals.
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The U.S., China, Brazil, India and South Africa reached a modest climate change agreement in Copenhagen late Friday that aims to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius and address several other issues that had deadlocked the talks over the last two weeks.
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The Autodesk team announced this week it has devised a new way of setting goals to reduce its carbon footprint. It's called the Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-Stabilizing Targets, or C-FACT, and the company hopes other businesses will adopt it and even help Autodesk make it better.
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The company has announced a new plan for a smaller carbon footprint, which it intends to reduce 10 percent in absolute terms by 2015 as part of its participation in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program.
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The political wrangling over climate change legislation began anew Wednesday with the introduction of a bill today that aims to reduce emissions 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
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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, Steelcase leaves other furniture makers in the dust for sharing its efforts to measure climate change impacts with the public and setting clear goals to reduce its energy use and emissions.
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At the World Dairy Summit yesterday, industry associations from around the world signed a pact to reduce emissions associated with milk production, as well as develop and share innovations for lower-impact milk processing, packaging and distribution.
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Roughly 2,500 global organizations that report climate change data to the Carbon Disclosure Project will have access to an upgraded reporting system next year it hopes will become the global de facto standard.
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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.
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Climate change is increasingly important to the majority of the world’s largest business, according to new Carbon Disclosure Project reports released that show the highest response to date for the annual study charting corporate efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Based on the responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project, the world’s 100 biggest companies make recommended emissions cuts until 2089 -- 39 years after 2050, when scientists say emissions need to be at least 80 percent lower.
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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.
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Nike, Nokia, HP and 16 other multinational companies launched a campaign this week to nudge world leaders toward agreement of a global climate change treaty by late 2009. The Let the Clean Economy Begin campaign was unveiled as the G8 leaders convene in Italy to discuss climate change and the U.S. Senate begins hearings on climate change legislation.