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Dean Foods' Environmental 2013 Roadmap is designed to achieve a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and 30 percent decline in water use by 2013, both metrics measured per gallon of product produced. The company also intends to slash its solid waste generation by 30 percent.
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The agreements that negotiators reached this weekend in Mexico are flawed and incomplete, but they still represent a historic breakthrough on fighting climate change.
by James Murray
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Since adding recycling bins at its stores for the first time earlier this year, Target has finalized a set of company-wide goals covering emissions, water and more.
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The industry association that represents roughly 34,000 pubs and brewers in the U.K. has laid out 10 sustainability commitments that cover emissions, water use, renewable energy and others, including some goals that double the U.K. government's own targets.
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While global businesses have made gains to improve their energy efficiency and reduce carbon footprints, more needs to be done upstream and on a sector-basis, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres told business leaders over the weekend.
by Alex Hahn
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SAP and Autodesk make the case for how their collaboration to combine Autodesk's greenhouse gas reduction methodology with SAP's carbon management software can help companies proactively manage carbon footprints at a time of ineffectual climate policy.
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The nonprofit Carbon War Room will name the winners of the first annual Gigaton Awards in a bid to lend honor and prestige to companies taking the lead in reducing their environmental impacts.
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Marks & Spencer reports making major strides toward its green goals and says it has already achieved 70 of 180 objectives contained in the sustainability agenda the retailer calls Plan A.
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Consider: On a day when of America’s most iconic companies has come back to life as a public company after going through a bankruptcy and government bailout, its first gesture is an environmental one.
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by Joel Makower
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Against a backdrop of what may be the largest IPO in U.S. history, Chevrolet will announce today its plans to invest $40 million in carbon offset projects across the country over the next three to five years.
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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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Unilever unveiled its 2020 sustainability plan yesterday, and no one can accuse the company of playing small ball. Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan will attempt to do something that will be incredibly hard to achieve: growing a company's sales without growing its environmental footprint.
by Marc Gunther
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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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As the Cancun Climate Summit is poised to begin, commercial real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle publishes its latest Global Sustainability Perspective report and looks at the challenges and goals for the talks that have been dubbed the "last chance" summit.
by Dan Probst
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SAP Ag began reporting sustainability data on a quarterly basis earlier this year, giving the company better visibility into its performance and the chance to correct its course in order to meet its goals. Its third quarter results released Wednesday revealed the company will need to limit unneccessary air travel in the last quarter of 2010 -- its busiest time of the year -- in order to meet its annual climate goal.
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General Mills and Walmart have both made smart business decisions by committing to use 100 percent sustainable palm oil. Companies that ignore supply chain risks such as deforestation put their company's reputation and profits at risk, and investors are starting to notice.
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Experts predict that a government move to impose a carbon tax through the Carbon Reduction Commitment may actually help make the scheme less complicated.
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The company has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund for the endeavor, making it the first major retailer to join the organization's Climate Savers program, Supervalu said. Twenty-five companies are partners in the program, including Nike, Johnson & Johnson, and IBM.
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Johnson & Johnson is reporting double-digit reductions in carbon emissions, water use and waste, exceeding environmental goals in six areas while being on track with 2010 targets in another four key categories.
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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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General Mills became the latest company to declare it would only buy palm oil produced through environmentally and socially responsible means.
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Morgan Stanley, Procter and Gamble (P&G) and GreenTech Automotive announced plans at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting that will reduce emissions, speed deployment of electric vehicles, and expand access to clean drinking water in developing countries. This follows a similarly ambitious commitment from Donlen, Environmental Defense Fund and GreenDriver to reduce commercial fleet emissions by 20 percent over five years.
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Today, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) joins with Donlen, a leading fleet management company, and GreenDriver in a commitment towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the commercial fleet sector by 20 percent over the next five years.
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Leading companies are cutting emissions profitably by reducing, for example, energy and fuel consumption. They are being proactive and constantly looking for opportunities to save. These are the companies that are in effect, defining what it means to be sustainable and low-carbon. And they are being rewarded by setting the standards that other companies will have to follow going forward.
by Kyle Tanger
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The move is part of the company's membership in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Teradata joined the program in 2008, and completed its base year reporting last year.