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CDP to poll 3,700 firms on climate risks
01 March 2009The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has called on 3,700 companies to submit data on their climate change risks, as a survey claims that three-quarters of the investment managers behind the project now factor such information into their investment decisions.
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Kellogg sets environmental targets in first CR report
05 February 2009Cereal and convenience food giant Kellogg Company has published its first global corporate responsibility (CR) report, setting targets to reduce its environmental and social impacts.
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Corralling the cowboys
01 February 2009As voluntary carbon market participants brace themselves for the effect of the global slowdown, Christopher Cundy reports on how the market's earlier problems are being addressed
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Registeries - ticked off?
01 February 2009If 2008 was the year when voluntary carbon standards established themselves, then 2009 should be the year for their registries.
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Price pressure
01 February 2009America's progression towards mandatory carbon emissions trading looks set to continue to support prices in its voluntary carbon market – but things look bleaker elsewhere, finds Thomas Marcello
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Counting the cost of offsetting
01 February 2009Times are tough, but offsetting emissions can still make economic as well as environmental sense. Bill Burtis explains how organisations should approach offsetting
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When is a REC not an offset?
01 February 2009Renewable energy certificates (RECs, green tags or green certificates) represent the quantified non-emissions of a clean form of energy – as measured by how many tonnes of a regulated pollutant would have been emitted in creating that energy from a non-clean form. Those non-emissions are called 'environmental attributes'.