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Insurers Aviva and Aegon landed at the top of the heap of Europe's 300 largest companies for their low levels of publicly-reported greenhouse gas emissions, relative to their revenue. Rounding out the bottom were KGHM, a Polish mining company, and Sodexo, a food services and management company.
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A company's value declines on average by $202,000 for every additional thousand metric tons of emissions, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Georgetown University and the University of Notre Dame.
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Air emissions have been on the decline for the electric power company since 1990, a time period during which its generation fleet has grown 249 percent.
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A measure that would have stripped the EPA of its authority to regulate emissions failed in the U.S. Senate by 10 votes.
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The nonprofit took its mission a step further this week with the unveiling of a new effort that asks companies to go beyond mere climate change disclosure and take action.
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The latest version of the company's Acco2unt software includes emissions analyses for ICT equipment, helping companies map their entire energy and carbon footprint more accurately.
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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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Why your company will be an energy company, no matter what you do.
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In its annual Environment poll, Gallup found that 51% of Americans worry a fair amount or great deal about climate change, just one percentage point higher than the poll's lowest mark in 1997.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 Tuesday on a 34-19 vote, with all Republicans and three Democrats in support.
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ICT sector to get its own guidance for calculating the carbon footprint of its products and services.
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In London, disposable diapers can add up to 200,000 tonnes of solid waste annually, according to a local nonprofit that promotes reusable diapers,which may produce up to 40 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their disposable counterparts under ideal laundering conditions
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The carbon and energy software market could top $558 million by 2014, according to U.K.-based research firm Verdantix. In a new report out this week, the company predicted the carbon and energy software market would grow by a compound annual growth rate of 51 percent between 2010 and 2014.
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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.
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A U.K. nonprofit has ranked the country's 100 largest companies on greenhouse gas intensity and transparency, putting insurance companies Amlin and Aviva at the top of the heap. Rounding out the bottom are cruise operator Carnival and Randgold Resources, a gold mining company disputing the findings.
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The two companies are making headlines this week for their efforts to improve fuel efficiency and the bottom lines.
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The GOP plan would reduce the agency's budget by $3 billion, while its research-driven Global Change program would also see about a 30 percent hit. Other agencies working on energy or climate-related matters would also see their funding shrivel up, including the Department of Energy, Department of Energy, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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A California judge has tentatively ruled that the state's air board didn't comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) when it adopted a plan to carry out the state's climate change laws.
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Laws introduced in California over the last 20 years for cleaner fuels and diesel truck engines has had an immediate impact on addressing black carbon, leading to an improvement of the state's air quality and climate benefits.
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Some companies claimed some types of data to be collected under the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program was sensitive business information that threatened their competitiveness if disclosed publicly.
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The nonprofit Carbon War Room has rated the greenhouse gas efficiency of nearly every big oceangoing vessel in the world, which will be searchable in a new data hub designed to help ship owners, operators, ports and stakeholders make better, more efficient shipping decisions.
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CA Technologies, Enviance, Hara, SAP and Tririga are among 10 companies poised to reap the largest rewards from the drive toward sustainable business software, according to U.K.-based Verdantix.
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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 company's sixth annual CSR report shows how virtual meeting and virtual office technologies have quickly helped the company achieve its emissions-reductions targets, two years early.
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The guidance is designed to help states identify cost-effective ways of reducing and minimizing emissions at new or upgraded carbon-intensive facilities seeking air permits, such as power plants, cement kilns and refineries.The day before, the egency finalized greenhouse gas reporting requirements for the petroleum and natural gas sectors.