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Survey: 56% of CDP Members May Cut Out Suppliers Who Don’t Manage Carbon
Feb 1st
February 1, 2010
More than half (56 percent) of Carbon Disclosure Project members surveyed said that in the future they would cease doing business with suppliers that do not manage their carbon, according to the “Supply Chain Report 2010” (PDF) from theCarbon Disclosure Project.
Surveyed member companies included firms like PepsiCo, Dell, Google, IBM, Kellogg, HP and Unilever.
To assemble the report, 44 CDP member firms reached out to 1,402 of their suppliers. About 51 percent of suppliers responded to the survey, 7 percent declined to participate and another 42 percent did not respond.
The survey found that 38 percent of supply chain respondents More >
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Loading ...Bill Gates Sinks $4.5M into ‘Transparent’ Climate Change Research
Feb 1st
February 1, 2010
Bill Gates is investing at least $4.5 million of his own money into geoengineering research, aimed at combating global climate change, with an emphasis on transparency, reports Wired. At the same time, in light of the hacked climate e-mails, a former Commander of the Pacific fleet is asking President Obama Administration to establish an independent panel to evaluate the link between climate change and security.
Administered by two high-level scientists at the forefront of geoengineering research, climate scientist Ken Caldeira, of Stanford’s Carnegie Department of Global Ecology, and physicist David Keith of the University of Calgary will decide which technologies More >
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Air Force Putting $2.3B into Energy, Water Conservation
Dec 23rd
December 23, 2009
Air Force Putting $2.3B into Energy, Water Conservation A host of efforts from the U.S. Air Force are expected to help reduce facility energy intensity 30 percent and potable water use 16 percent by 2015.The Air Force is spending $2.3 billion on energy conservation, energy-related facility audits, third-party contract buyouts, water conservation and renewable energy projects, according to a press release.
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