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Last week, I had the opportunity to witness a milestone being reached in the effort to fight global warming: officials from 18 states - representing a majority of the US population - signed an agreement at Yale University that committed their states to action on global warming.
by David Wigder
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The U.K. government is hoping to encourage more firms to imitate the National Grid's process of incorporating a shadow price for carbon emissions into their cost-benefit analyses.
by James Murray
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National Grid raised its greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal from 60 percent to 80 percent by 2050, and plans to add carbon budgets that are tied to financial performance, the company announced Friday.
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Some impacts of climate change are unavoidable but businesses can evaluate potential risks and try to reduce them, according to a new report from the Pew Center.
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Program includes vehicle and aircraft fleets replacement, buildings overhaul and staff training.
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Although experts are still debating at what point we're likely to see dramatic, rapid changes in global climate, the fact that the planet is able to absorb less carbon means the importance of concerted action is needed now.
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By interviewing companies with a history of carbon measuring and reporting, IBM and the Carbon Disclosure Project hope to provide best practices and insight into carbon management tactics.
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Bowing to pressure from a bloc of shareholders, Ford has become the first automaker to detail its strategy to reduce its fleet's greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2020.
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At the Wall Street Journal's first sustainability-themed conference last week, the heads of dozens of industry-leading companies that climate change was going to have a major impact on business, even if a discussion of how to implement much-needed changes was missing from the meeting.
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The latest annual edition of Clean Energy Trends has just been published. My colleagues and I at Clean Edge have identified five key trends affecting clean-energy markets and produced our annual forecast of markets for four clean-energy technologies. And, working with our partners at New Energy Finance, we've analyzed the investment trends of the past year.
by Joel Makower
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During the last 10 years, Nestle slashed its direct greenhouse gas emissions 16 percent and cut energy use 3 percent while at the same time, its production volume increase 76 percent. The company's bottled water products now use nearly a quarter less packaging, according to a new company report.
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As the current backlash on corn-based ethanol shows, when we fall in love with promising new technology too quickly, we run the risk of creating worse problems than we're originally trying to solve.
by Brad Allenby
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The country's largest nuclear energy generator plans to further reduce emissions from its buildings and supply chain as well as create new, low-carbon-emitting energy plants.
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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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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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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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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.