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A recent article on reuters.com contains the details of the Copenhagen Accordfor fighting global warming after the United Nations published on Wednesday a first formal list of more than 110 countries as formal backers.
Madlen King, LRQA’s Climate Change Manager and a leading EU ETS expert, answered the questions of aircraft operators and other members of the audience of the recent LRQA Business Assurance Webinar on EU ETS Aviation.
This latest research report ‘What Assures Consumers in an Economic Downturn?’ highlights that consumer attitudes to corporate responsibility have remained fairly stable during the early days of this downturn, comments Barry Clavin, Ethical Policies and Sustainability Reporting Manager, The Co-operative Group. He also says in the foreword of the report that, issues that mattered to consumers back in 2006 remain important today. Download the Full Report.
This Carbon Disclosure Project - Supply Chain Report 2009 looks for the first time at how businesses are responding to the call for action and transparency in managing carbon and climate change in their supply chain.
American Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative FAQ’s published
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), an initiative of the North East and Mid Atlantic States of the US have published an updated FAQ document. The FAQ document contains useful information for parties interested in submitting a Qualification Application or Intent to Bid for RGGI CO2 Allowance Auctions.
Aircraft operators will be brought into the EUETS as of 2010. As progress continues with the European Commission and the European Parliament in the agreement of the Monitoring and Reporting Requirements (MRG) to be placed on aircraft operators within the scheme, the dates for implementation are looming.
The directive sets out basic requirements for aircraft operators.
Technical reports on baseline Tonne-Kilometer (TKM) data and annual emissions data have been drafted for the Commission, to advise them on issues requiring clarification within the MRG . Furthermore application formats have been drafted for applying for a TKM Monitoring Plan, an Annual Emissions Monitoring Plan and for TKM and Annual Emissions Reports. However, until such time as a draft MRG is issued many operators are unclear of the requirements.
A new report carried out by Ceres where a team of investors and environmentalists studied the climate change policies of a number of the worlds largest tech and consumer companies see what the results were.
The 2008 GHG Market report includes a comprehensive coverage of issues of immediate interest that IETA has been privileged to bring together in one publication.
This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) has been prepared by BSI to specify requirements for assessing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of goods and services. The development of this PAS was co-sponsored by the Carbon Trust and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
What is PAS 2050?
PAS 2050 provides a consistent method [...]
The Code of Good Practice for product greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction claims has been developed by the Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust to promote the reduction of product life cycle GHG emissions.
While PAS 2050 provides a standard method for assessing a product carbon footprint, this guide, ‘Guide to PAS 2050′, will help businesses to implement the standard by offering specific and practical guidance.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE:CCE), the world’s largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third company-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report, Shape Tomorrow…Today.
A recent study of such environmental policies shows they are more likely to be successful if people are treated as active partners in the process of change and not as passive subjects.
These terms make it meaningful for companies disclosing any data and information rather than the scientific principles all the schemes use e.g. materiality, faithfulness, etc.
The attached report is the result of Eye For Transport’s recent survey of Supply Chain experts, with both current and future trends being evaluated.
In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food every year, roughly a third of everything we buy.
This ground-breaking report was launched on 8 May 2008.
It provides, for the first time, an objective assessment of the amounts and types of food we buy but don’t eat.
It is a call to action for government, retailers, food manufacturers, NGOs and all of us, in our role as consumers, to reduce the food we waste.
Check-out Carbon, published by sustainable development charity Forum for the Future, also reveals that 77 per cent of consumers want the government to set higher environmental product standards.
Forum for the Future’s new report, sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, entitled Check-out Carbon, released.
90% of Americans say that companies need to prove their green claims, 80% say they should have independent third-party certification of those claims.
This Environmental Leader article highlights the Green Gap Survey from Cone and The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship surveyed US consumers on a range of topics regarding environmental products and the companies selling them.
This set of guidelines, accompanied by case studies from five businesses, explains the steps a business should take to identify what ecosystems it depends on and the risks and opportunities related to changes in those ecosystems.
In the current wave of the environmental movement, there is quite a bit of talk. But research from Natural Marketing Institute shows that there is also quite a bit of action.
The Stockholm Environment announces the release of a comprehensive
new report on the voluntary carbon offset market.
It introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
Ethical Corporation have just launched a business intelligence report on how the Global FT500 are calculating and verifying their greenhouse gas emissions.
The WWF has sponsored some interesting research into the Social, Economic and Governance performance of the world’s leading luxury brands.
Climate Change 2007”, has now been completed. Its final part, “The Synthesis Report” was released in Valencia, Spain, on 17 November 2007. Earlier this year, the three IPCC Working Groups contributions to the AR4 were released.
CBI Climate Change Report, including the news that 2020 goals likely to be missed, but 2050 goals still attainable
Understanding the Carbon Market - A comprehensive overview of both the regulated and voluntary markets, including a full list of all relevant standards.
CarbonFootprint talks about how the VCS provides a credible but simple set of criteria that will provide integrity to the voluntary carbon market.
A new report from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University suggests that US consumers believe that local food is safer than that from further afield.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, ISO has put a promotional video on YouTube! The video is an overview of the environmental management standard, ISO 14001, and has over 5,400 downloads so far!
Further, there are supply chain videos on YouTube!, including this promotional video from Cisco and Ford, as well as Food Safety videos, including this one on Food Safety and China.
New global research sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, M&S and the Co-op shows that consumers want better independent, impartial assurance of corporations’ environmental claims.
All you need to know about the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme, including a guide to achieving compliance.
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