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Union Pacific saved more than 20 million gallons of diesel fuel last year through a series of programs and locomotive acquisitions designed to improve its fleet's fuel efficiency.
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The media finally took notice of climate change in 2007 -- now it's time to emphasize the solutions and the innovations that will lead us out of this crisis over the danger climate changes poses to the planet.
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One million tons of carbon will be buried and monitored from 2009-2012 to test effectiveness of carbon sequestration.
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Despite what both pessimists and optimists may say, the Bali climate summit achieved everything it could reasonably have achieved. What is still up for grabs is what good will come out of the next steps.
by James Murray
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Many people are unaware that wind power in many cases has become competitive with conventional power derived from fossil fuels. European countries such as Spain and Germany also are demonstrating how wind generation is leading to significant job growth within the clean energy sector.
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Product innovation and an energy reduction program allowed Xerox to slash GHG emissions in 2006 by 18 percent based on a 2002 baseline, saving the company $18 million. Xerox will announce today a new goal of reducing emissions 25 percent below 2002 levels by 2012.
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On the eve of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, two new reports show how tantalizingly able we are to reduce our climate footprint -- and how frustratingly far we are from taking the needed steps to do so.
by Joel Makower
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Just as $90 barrels of oil are making alternative technologies possible and desirable, awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC acknowledges the need for shared recognition of the implications of climate change. What we do with that evolving collective wisdom remains to be seen.
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Laying the groundwork for new investment products, Innovest releases the first study relating how companies manage climate change risk to their financial performance.
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Although investment fund managers say they are aware of the reality of climate change, a survey of major U.K. funds found that their goal to maximize returns keeps them focused entirely on quarterly performance and blinding them to addressing the crisis.
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Donlen Corp. will join the Sierra Club to honor a company that boosts industry standards for reducing carbon emissions in the fleet industry.
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Corporate carbon footprinting is on the rise, but so too is the number of footprint methodologies, challenging companies and investors to discern the best options.
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The voluntary carbon market grew by 200 percent last year, and is expected to set more records in 2007, according to a report from the Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance.
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Today's movement to 'get the carbon out' of our fuel supply bears a resemblence to the push to 'get the lead out' in the 1970s. Now, as then, the transition to a low-carbon fuel supply can be remarkably easy -- and effective.
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According to the EPA's annual inventory of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, overall U.S. emissions rose 16 percent from 1990 to 2005, and in 2005 rose less than 1 percent.
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Although the extent of climate change's impacts on the world is still unknown, there are enough advance warnings to push new developments in how we can prepare our responses in advance.
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Enshrining a national commitment to reduce carbon emissions in law is a good start but does not go far enough, according to Mayor Ken Livingstone.
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SocialFunds.com's Bill Baue examines how three new reports -- from Lehman Brothers, UBS and Citigroup -- highlight the failure of the market to address climate change, and what opportunities exist for forward-looking companies.
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The buyout of TXU raises the risks -- economically as well as environmentally -- for other energy companies that have plans for building new coal-fired power plants in the U.S., experts say.
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The fight against global warming has changed the environmental movement forever, but it has also changed business forever, argues climate change guru Truman Semans.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Clinton Climate Initiative to engage the largest cities in the world through the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group.
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California and the U.K. government are preparing to create their own climate treaty that sidesteps the Bush administration's official climate policy to create a trans-Atlantic market for greenhouse gases.
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The new PHH GreenFleet program aims to help companies reduce fleet operating costs, decrease global warming pollution, and meet corporate environmental goals.
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The nonprofit Leonardo Academy has announced a new project to develop ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standards for quantifying and documenting environmental emission inventories, offsets, and reduction credits.
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The Coca-Cola Company has completed the transition to HFC-free insulation for 98% of all new purchases of refrigerated sales and marketing equipment.