Archive

  • Time to send offsetting into retirement?

    24 January 2011

    Carbon offsetting has received a mixed press in recent years – but switching from carbon credits to allowances could help restore its credibility, argues Jane Burston

  • Suez Environnement launches water and waste management fund

    02 December 2010

    French water and waste management firm Suez Environnement has launched Blue Orange, a venture capital fund to invest in environmental technologies.

  • Maersk to measure emissions from shipping containers

    04 November 2010

    Danish shipping company Maersk Line is to tell customers the carbon footprint of each container it moves around the world, an initiative that observers hope will accelerate the shipping industry's otherwise slow progress on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Asset owners' climate disclosure is 'challenging'

    28 October 2010

    The director of a new initiative to encourage asset owners to report how they are managing climate risks acknowledges that it faces "challenges" in driving disclosure.

  • US looks to stem flow of e-waste to developing countries

    07 October 2010

    Dumping electronic waste (e-waste) in developing countries could be banned in the US, if a bill put forward in the country's House of Representatives gains traction.

  • Climate disclosure steady despite economy and climate talk wobbles - CDP

    23 September 2010

    Global corporations continued voluntarily disclosing climate change risks and opportunities at a high rate despite the slow economic recovery and the failure of UN climate talks, according to an annual survey conducted by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

  • Plastic use no longer under wraps as Clinton launches investor initiative

    23 September 2010

    Former US President Bill Clinton has announced an investor-led survey of how companies use and track plastic in their business.

  • GRI backs sustainability accounting initiative

    05 August 2010

    A joint body "to create a globally accepted framework for accounting for sustainability" has been launched by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S).

  • Climate Institute plans 'asset owners disclosure project'

    22 July 2010

    Following in the footsteps of the Carbon Disclosure Project, the climate change disclosure spotlight is set to be shone on the world's 1,000 largest asset owners.

  • Equipment, training focus in Exxon spill performance

    10 June 2010

    ExxonMobil plans to target training, inspection and equipment reliability issues to improve its record on spills, the oil giant said in its 2009 corporate citizenship report.