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ClimateCounts.org, a non-profit organization funded by Stonyfield Farm, has a mission to “bring consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change”. The principal tool used to achieve that is the Climate Counts Company Scorecard rating the “climate commitment” of 60 major corporations across 9 industry sectors. In collaboration with Clean Air-Cool Planet, ClimateCounts released their first annual scorecard last year.
The scorecard, based on 22 criteria (pdf), showed if a company was “stuck”, “starting”, or “striding” toward climate responsibility.
Last week ClimateCounts released their second annual scorecard showing that, overall, businesses have improved since one year ago. The average company score rose 22%, or a 39 out of 100 (0 = really [really] bad; 100 = phenomenal (to which no company comes close).
Some companies are a bit cool to the whole idea behind ClimateCounts. Amazon, who managed to pull their score from a zero all the way up to a blistering high of five, shrugs off the rating, citing “significant progress” in reducing their carbon footprint. (five being infinitely better than zero).
Companies like Google, who has pledged to become carbon neutral, showed a bit more enthusiasm for the project, and rightly so, rising 38 points from last year to 55.
A breakdown by ranking shows Nike at the top with an 82 and Wendy’s International in a dead heat for last place with Jones Apparel Group, Darden Restaurants, and Burger King, all scoring zero.
European Cars are being remodelled to achieve lower emissions targets. [read more]
Shell's Global Environment team discussed its "Global Energy Scenarios to 2050" research and analysis in the first of a planned series of live web chats Thursday, May 15.[read more]
food riots and the causes behind high food prices.[read more]
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) yesterday announced the implementation of a GHG program in Brazil. The 'Brazil...[read more]
If you've ever been on a road trip, you've probably seen this sight at a rest stop: one, or many...[read more]
There's a glaring need for pro-regulatory perspectives to be included in the cost-benefit analyses used by government regulators' decision making processes, particularly when it comes to energy and the environment, argues NYU School of Law's Richard Revesz.[read more]
Real estate development, like every other part of the U.S. economy, is starting to change, to adapt to a new,...[read more]
USAID, NASA and development partners have released the beta version of the Climate Mapper tool for SERVIR Viz, 3-D visualization software and an initial accompanying data set designed to assist development planners gauge the effects of climate change on any given landscape.[read more]
According to Wired, "forget everything you've heard about airlines and CO2 emissions. The news is much worse than anyone thought."...[read more]
There is a growing recognition that investments in and adoption of clean technologies benefits both the environment. Clean technology industries...[read more]
The buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts last week announced a new partnership with Environmental Defense to help measure the environmental...[read more]
On Thursday, Rick Wagoner, Chairman and CEO of General Motors came to San Francisco to speak about the future of...[read more]
Governors and representatives of 18 U.S. states signed a Declaration on Climate Change during the Yale Conference of Governors April 17-18 commemorating the centennial of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt planting the seeds for what would grow into the conservation movement and the U.S. National Parks System. [read more]
Carbon consulting to the voluntary markets, Merrill Lynch and IFC join ranks to do it. Fun article about the voluntary carbon trading markets in relation to the creation of biodiversity and agriculture opportunities.[read more]
Leading multinational manufacturers, members of the Carbon Disclosure Project’s Supply Chain Leadership Council, announced the results of their initial survey and effort to promote greenhouse gas emissions reporting and reduction throughout their supply chain networks.[read more]
Scientists at UK's Newcastle University developed an energy efficient way to create a chemical reaction between epoxy and CO2. That's great because the result, cyclic carbonates, can be applied in the paints, petrol refining and biodegradable packaging industry. As much as 4% of the entire UK's carbon dioxide can be 'recyled'.[read more]
The UN’s Kyoto Protocol and Clean Development Mechanism, cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions trading systems—nothing but a con and the latest gambit by the international - predominantly Western - political, corporate and media elite to further enrich and secure themselves while doing less than nothing to address environmental degradation and climate change, claims New Delhi’s Centre for Science and Environment.[read more]
Within the greenhouse gas market, not only are there a lot of different standards, they’re also referred to as protocols,...[read more]
On the one hand climate change portends nothing less than the cataclysmic end of civilization as we know it. On...[read more]
Two significant and contrasting news items related to climate change and energy appear in the April 23 edition of the International Herald Tribune: Europe will increasingly rely on coal to meet its growing electricity needs while two US VCs team up with Norway’s ThinkGlobal to manufacture recyclable, emissions-free electric vehicles in California.[read more]
After four years of heads down work to find answers where it appeared that only questions existed, Adam Werbach followed...[read more]
Next time you read a Wall Street Journal editorial about climate or energy policy and want to tear your hair out, take pity instead - Joe Rago needs all the sympathy he can get.[read more]
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