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Free Webcast: Climate Change and Business Success (FEB 23)
Feb 19th
and Business Success Tuesday 23rd February 2010 5.00pm GMT, 9.00am PST, 12.00pm EST
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>> How can an environmental strategy benefit your business? >> What are the costs and challenges of GHG emission compliance? >> Can there be truly green business models? Adapting businesses to the demands of climate change mitigation is a huge challenge, but one that can not only improve levels of environmental impact, but also enhance brands, motivate employees, increase operational efficiencies, and save money. This Earthcast will examine the challenges posed by measuring, reducing, and offsetting emissions and the innovative solutions to common challenges currently being employed by More >
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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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White House Budget Suggests Abandonment of Cap and Trade
Feb 1st
February 1, 2010
The fact that the White House is not including projected revenues from cap and trade suggests that the Obama Administration is acquiescing to the notion that Congress may not pass such legislation, observers say.
Last year the Obama Administration projected that cap and trade would provide $646 billion in revenues from 2012-2019, but those numbers do not appear in the new budget, reportsReuters.
Instead, the White House budget includes a “placeholder” for revenues from cap and trade, provided that Congress passes it, reports the New York Times. The placeholder status assumes that no cap and trade revenues will be coming into the Treasury.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...VIDEO: The Facts of Cap-and-Trade
Jan 27th
Climate expert Nat Keohane uncovers the real facts behind clean energy legislation in our short video: “The Facts of Cap-and-Trade.” With some help from a team of animators, Nat explains why a cap on global warming pollution is the best option to create a better future for America.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jan. 1 Emissions Reporting Deadline Draws Pundits Out of Wordwork
Dec 30th
With large emitters scheduled to begin collecting their emissions data Jan. 1, companies are gearing up to ensure their compliance. But that hasn’t stopped critics from ramping up their rhetoric.
On Sept. 22, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would require about 10,000 facilities that emit about 85 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gases to begin collecting their emissions data.
The largest emitters will have to submit annual reports of their emissions, starting in 2011, with information from the 2010 calendar year. Vehicle and engine manufacturers are getting a one-year reprieve. They don’t have to start reporting until model year 2011. For More >
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Most pragmatic approach to reducing CO2: ‘Cap and Trade’ or ‘Fee and Dividend’?
Dec 25th
What is the most pragmatic policy approach to reducing CO2 emmissions?
Earlier this month (Dec. 7, 2009), two Op-Ed columns appeared in the New York Times–one, by Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, supporting ‘cap and trade’ strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and the other, authored by NASA’s James Hansen (head of the Goddard Space Flight Center) advocating a new approach that he calls ‘fee and dividend’. So, which is the most effective policy to pursue and implement?
The following is a break down of the two More >
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