Alcoa’s Kawneer business and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change have joined together in order to launch an environmental program called “Make an Impact”. This program focuses in enabling individuals to reduce their energy costs and control their carbon footprint ratio.
The ACE Group has announced that their building has received the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The building, located at 436, Walnut Street, Philadelphia, is the only LEED-certified building, which is a 350,000sq.ft structure and accommodates 900 employees. The building serves as ACE Group’s North American regional headquarters.
Sprint announced the opening of its first eco-friendly retail store in Houston, which is located at 1493 Parks at Boulder Creek. This new eco-friendly store in Houston consist of lighting equipment with energy efficient features and it also consists of carpets and paints with a low volatile organic compound (VOC) that helps in bringing down the carbon footprint rate of this new store.
Codero, deciding to go green with its electricity consumption, has purchased 12,600 MWh of Green-e certified power from renewable energy resources. The purchase, made using renewable energy credits, will power its headquarters and two data centers, located in Overland Park in Kansas, San Diego in California and Phoenix in Arizona, respectively.
Global carbon markets may well have been hailed as the saviour of the planet by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but in many ways they are doing more harm than good, according to new evidence.
Dr. Steffen Bohm and Siddhartha Dabhi from the Essex Business School have written a book titled, ‘Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets’, which was the outcome of the dissatisfaction that the global carbon markets have not really helped in reducing greenhouse emissions. This book comments on the increasing number of problems brought about by the steps taken to reduce the emission of carbon after the Kyoto Protocol Treaty, and it also consists of views from 30 experts, which are related to this issue of green house gas emissions.
BASF is the first company in the world to voluntarily compile details of its carbon footprint on a regular basis. The results now published for 2008 show that when used by customers, BASF products save three times more greenhouse gas emissions than are released in the manufacture and disposal of all products made by BASF. The company published its first carbon footprint in February 2008.
The changing market and legislative landscape across the globe is forcing the emergence of a low-carbon economy. This is placing tremendous pressure on companies in terms of their use of energy and the level of greenhouse gas emissions, as well the financial implication of these aspects.
Acushnet Company of Fairhaven, a customer of smart grid solutions provider for the utilities sector Nexant and the producer of leading golf brands such as Cobra and FootJoy, was due to receive the “Beacon for Energy” certificate from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) on 16 November. Acushnet was scheduled to receive the certificate from Philip Giudice, the commissioner of DOER at the company’s Ball Plant II facility in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Nexant planned to award $300,000 to the company, which represents the proceeds achievable from selling Acushnet’s energy credits in the following year.
WWF is challenging global leaders to back an ambitious target on stopping forest loss as a major element of efforts to avert the looming climate catastrophe
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