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Carbon markets

State of Green Business 2008 - Report

10th Mar 2008

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.

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Helping small businesses in the U.S. go green

10th Mar 2008 by Sarah Whitworth

Although large companies continually grab the headlines with far-reaching announcements about carbon reduction, recycling and eco-friendly products, small businesses have just as much ability to affect the environment.

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Green-e Climate certifying carbon offsets

28th Feb 2008

The Center for Resource Solutions has launched Green-e Climate, what it says is the nation’s first independent certification for carbon offset products.

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Japan aims for emissions trade with Russia

27th Feb 2008

Japan and Russia have agreed to start talks on fighting global warming, including possible greenhouse gas emissions trading that would help Tokyo to meet its goals under the Kyoto Protocol, media said on Sunday.

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Duke Energy CEO to open Sustainable Manufacturing Summit

27th Feb 2008

Rogers is opening the two-day summit which focuses on how manufacturers can reduce their climate impact at every stage of the production process – from product design through to waste.

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Event discount for businessassurance.com subscribers

27th Feb 2008

Businessassurance.com subscribers are encouraged to take advantage of a 15% discount off Corporate Climate Response - London, which takes place May 20-21st at the CBI Conference Centre.

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Cheat sheet: Carbon offsetting quality mark

21st Feb 2008

BusinessGreen takes a closer look at the government’s controversial attempts to clean up the carbon offset market.

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Carbon Disclosure Project to expand to 3,000 companies globally

7th Feb 2008 by Alex Briggs

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) will be sending out their questionnaires to over 3,000 companies globally. Their seventh report will see them extending their work into China, Korea and the Netherlands, among others.

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EU to auction all emissions permits

21st Jan 2008

The emissions trading system that has been criticised for giving power generators a £9billion windfall is likely to be swept away in 2013, the TIMES ONLINE reports.

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Climate Change

The Climate Change section is your one stop shop for news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other climate change resources.

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Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Assurance section covers news, blogs, podcasts, standards, events and resources on supply chain issues.

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Food

The Food section focuses on issues of food safety and the food supply chain, and provides news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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CSR

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) section focuses on current CSR issues which face all companies all over the world. This information is provided to you via six sections: news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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Product Conformity

The Product Conformity section contains news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and resources covering Product Conformity and other European Union related issues.

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Business Continuity

The Carbon Labelling section was launched in sync with the Check-out Carbon report, June 2008. The section contains information on news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other carbon labelling resources.

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