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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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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.
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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.
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In the latest update to the Climate Counts scorecard, 30 out of 47 firms improved their scores, but huge differences remain sector by sector, and industry as a whole is failing to meet the climate challenge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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A new report explores a variety of climate tipping points, explaining what it would take to reach and pass them, how close we are to them, and what the consequences would be, particularly for the insurance sector.<br />
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One year after setting a goal to cut corporate emissions by 8 percent before 2013, Diversey CEO today announced the company had already surpassed that target, and upped the goal to a 25 percent reduction in the same time frame.
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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.
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The analysis of 270 climate and energy policies at the regional, state and national level finds that investors in firms in a number of countries are at moderate risk from climate change, while only investments in Italy pose the highest risk to date.
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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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Hewlett-Packard today has unveiled a set of new environmental goals aimed at cutting the impact of its operations, facilities and products by as much as 40 percent over 2005 levels in the coming years.
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The 100 kilowatt solar energy system was constructed through a partnership between Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the State of Vermont's Clean Energy Development Fund and Green Mountain Power, a utility that provides a quarter of the state's electricity.
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U.S. and Canadian investors filed 68 shareholders resolutions in the 2009 proxy season aimed at forcing companies to do things like measure and disclose their carbon footprints, share their strategies for reducing emissions, or report on the financial or physical risks they face from climate change, according to Ceres, the Boston-based nonprofit working with companies to promote sustainable business practices.
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The Carbon Trust expanded eligibility of an interest-free loan program that will dole out £100m (US$165.6 million) over the next two years to help small- and medium-sized businesses replace old and inefficient equipment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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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.
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Five major banks and insurers have agreed to adopt a new framework that will guide the sector toward addressing and managing climate change across their products and services.
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Citi, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have announced a plan to extend guidelines for investing in greenhouse gas-generating projects to include the more numerous municipal utilities.
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The supply chain management company and WSP's environmental consultancy announced a partnership that aims to help companies of all sizes take stock of the emissions associated with every step in their supply chains.
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The newly released, first annual State of Green Business report takes a close look at the reality behind all the green claims to find out just how well U.S. are businesses doing in their quest to be greener and more environmentally responsible.