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Deals show that the strong appetite for renewables among corporate energy buyers may be inspiring the creation of more options for corporates.
by Sarah Golden
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Supply chain energy emissions make up the vast majority of corporate carbon footprints — an issue covered by just 6 percent of recent corporate climate targets.
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The New York Declaration in September catalyzed political and corporate action, firmly moving deforestation into the mainstream.
by Will Nichols
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Central Hudson Gas & Electric's two-year plan includes building microgrids and increasing community solar.
by Elisa Wood
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Optimization, upgrades and more fuel efficient vessels helps one of world's largest emitters cut its footprint.
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The latest weekly roundup of green news tracks efforts to build green into the budget, the benefits to green communications, and much more.
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The Princeton Review, Sierra Magazine, and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education have teamed up to promote a new tool that makes it free and relatively easy for any education institution to report its environmental impacts.
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Walmart in particular marks a big leap forward, coming up from 15th place three months ago to land in third place. Generating green power on-site -- where Walmart is the second-biggest green power creator -- is what helped move the retailer up.
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At the GreenBiz Forum this morning in Minneapolis, Tari Emerson, Kohl's director of energy and capital projects, walked through how the retailer has become the nation's largest corporate solar panel owner, and how other companies can get started.
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The company's CEO is leading a drive to convince businesses and individuals that solar energy makes sense -- today.
by Marc Gunther
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Coca-Cola Enterprises, a spin-off from the world-famous beverage brand that's focused on the Western European market, has set as a goal of its sustainability strategy to use its position in the supply chain to expand its impact.
by Mark Lee
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From airlines to ski resorts, climate change -- and the world's attempts to address it -- will have big impacts on tourism-dependent industries and regions. Here are five ways the travel business can get out ahead of the changing climate.
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The company set several new sustainability goals today, including spending more with suppliers that track emissions and achieving $40 million in energy savings each year.
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The cosmetics company has pledged to buy enough GreenPalm certificates to cover all of its global palm oil use.
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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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BT now expects its roughly 6,000 contracted suppliers to have a climate change policy in place, actively measure and report their emissions, and set challenging targets to reduce emissions, while also reporting on their progress.
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Risk management, brand enhancement, product differentiation and the desire to attract new talent are among the key reasons corporate carbon management efforts are reaching into the supply chain.
by Frances Way
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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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Following in the footsteps of Walmart, IBM and Procter and Gamble, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. officially kicked off a project this week to size up the carbon footprint of its supply chain with the help of Climate Earth and UC Berkeley.
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Today, Walmart made its first major commitment to reduce greenhouse gases -- but in typical fashion, rather than set a tough goal that might affect its own growth curve, the company plans to turn up the pressure on its thousands of suppliers to reduce their emissions.
by Marc Gunther
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The city of Wilmington and Honeywell have embarked on a sweeping $14.5 million efficiency project that includes two solar arrays, increased water reservoir capacity, a traffic light retrofit and upgraded lighting and HVAC systems for 11 facilities.
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The U.S. General Services Administration has created the new position of Chief Greening Officer in a bid to move forward President Barack Obama's federal sustainability agenda. It also said Monday it has moved its Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings to the Office of Governmentwide Policy.
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Global Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) has extended its money-saving environmental management program to 20 percent of its portfolio, including two companies located outside the U.S.
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Sustainability has become the touchstone of the entire discussion about the relationship between business and the society it serves. It is a global issue, with an impact in every country, and every community.