The mutual fund industry's previously icy attitude toward climate change shareholder resolutions is beginning to thaw as Wall Street starts to recognize the financial risks and opportunities of global climate change, according to a new Ceres report announced today analyzing the voting records of 1,285 funds of 62 leading mutual fund firms.
Today, President Bush announced a new national goal to stop the growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. This new goal marks a major step forward in America's ongoing efforts to address climate change.
Given the global consensus on climate change, world leadership has looked at growth in India and China with increasing alarm. The prior experience of industrially-developing countries worldwide would suggest that as an economy grows, it consumes more and more energy. Given currently available energy and technology options, this in turn leads to increased carbon emissions into the environment.
These days having a carbon savings "calculator" on your Web site is as ubiquitous as calling your company green because you recycle paper, but Phoenix-based Web conferencing firm iLinc has taken the guesswork out of CO2 savings measurement by providing its customers with the industry’s first automatic IP address-based CO2 savings application, built inside its Web conferencing software.
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced it has added two production sites in China to its consolidated ISO certification program for environmental management. By consolidating the program group-wide, OKI can now share information on chemical substances, improve its business efficiency and unify its environmental management.
KPMG, the global network of professional service firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services, today announced a three tiered global approach to help address the challenges of climate change named "KPMG's Global Green Initiative."
Clients of the OB10 global e-Invoicing network helped save 1,123 trees in 2007, as they replaced paper invoices with electronic ones. The company announced today the latest "green" accomplishments of its network clients, reinforcing the value of electronic invoicing as a truly environmentally beneficial technology.
ThermoEnergy Corporation today announced the release of an engineering study by Parsons-Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading planning, engineering, and construction management organizations, demonstrating that the use of the Company's Ammonia Recovery Process results in substantial reductions in carbon emissions for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants versus conventional biological methods for the treatment and removal of nitrogen/ammonia.
There is no question that Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth is a powerful example of how scientific knowledge can be communicated to a lay audience. What is up for debate is whether it accurately presents the scientific argument that global warming is caused by human activities.
The new EcoPerks experience launches today offering simple ways to live a more carbon neutral lifestyle while earning EcoPoints to be used toward valuable rewards.
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