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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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