A New Era of Climate Change Consciousness
We know that recommendations coming from Copenhagen will likely take years to have practical effect. Meantime, companies are working to develop their roles in this new era. Shell’s climate change...
View ArticleGlobal Investment Portfolios Filled with ‘Hidden’ Climate Risks
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...
View ArticleUSPS Awards $28.5 Million Energy Efficiency Contracts to Lime Energy
Lime Energy has received three contracts, worth up to $28.5 million, to improve the energy efficiency of United States Postal Service buildings along the East Coast. Read Full Article
View ArticleInvestors Analyze Climate Risks and Opportunities: A Survey of Asset Manager...
The report highlights specific best practices that asset managers are using to incorporate climate risks into their due diligence, corporate governance and portfolio valuation. It also outlines...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Greens Lights and Power for Iconic SF Billboard
Coca-Cola’s glittering billboard, a fixture in downtown San Francisco for more than 70 years, has been replaced with a state-of-the-art LED display that’s 80 percent more energy efficient while...
View ArticleNYC’s ‘1,000 Green Supers’ Program Lands $2.8M Federal Grant
The U.S. Labor Department’s release this week of $100 million in Recovery Act funds for green job training includes a nearly $3 million grant to New York City’s innovative energy efficiency education...
View ArticleDetroit’s Annus Horribilis: Have Americans Stopped Loving Their Cars?
The year 2009 was a terrible year for Detroit, the worst in three decades. Americans bought 10.4 million cars — 21 percent fewer than in 2008 and a whopping 40 percent fewer than the 17 million or so...
View ArticleU.K. FTSE 100 Carbon Chasm
This research evaluates how UK FTSE 100 companies’ emission reduction targets compare against the national target and utilizes the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 2009 dataset to analyze how companies...
View ArticleLarge UK Firms Making Progress on Nat’l Climate Goals, Intensive Sectors Lag
Although the U.K.’s 100 largest companies are making headway toward the country’s climate change goals as a whole, its most carbon-intensive industries are lagging with emissions reduction targets that...
View ArticleWhy the Triple Bottom Line Matters More Than Ever
The concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? I don’t think so....
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