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- Counting Carbon at Madison Square Garden – Tilde Herrera
- What's the Carbon Footprint of Your Toilet Paper? – Tilde Herrera
- Whose Carbon Is It? The ABCs of Counting Emissions in Your Supply Chain – Betsy Fargo and Ryan Schuchard
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Measure & Verify
Managing greenhouse gases requires tracking company emissions accurately. The need for credible verification -- both internal and external -- has led to greater interest in standards for measuring emissions, and reporting mechanisms that are run or verified by third parties.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- Consumer products with labels displaying the amount of carbon dioxide emissions generated from production through disposal will hit store shelves in Australia next year thanks to a partnership between Australian environmental group Planet Ark and U.K.-based Carbon Trust, the organization that developed the international labeling standard.
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Deutsche Bank and MIT unveiled the world's first scientifically valid, real-time display of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. -- Start-up Planet Metrics has released the beta version of its software that helps companies like Method identify the embedded energy and greenhouse gas emissions in products and supply chains.
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Leverkusen, -- The company expects to maintain 2020 emissions at 2007 levels, Bayer said in its latest sustainable development report.
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BRUSSELS, -- The International Postal Corp., a trade group representing global postal operators, said last week it would publish a report in December detailing the sector's carbon proficiency, based on 2008 data from 21 participating postal operations.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The pharmaceutical industry has emerged as a leader in measuring and reporting its carbon footprint compared to 13 other sectors, according to the latest Climate Counts Scorecard released today. AstraZeneca and J&J lead the pack, while Amgen and Wyeth are the sector's biggest laggards.
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MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Energy management startup Hara Software Inc. has entered the market with a software-as-a-service corporate application that enables organizations to track their use of resources, energy efficiency and emissions systemwide -- and take steps to reduce them.
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DALLAS, Texas -- A group of faith-based investors will back off a resolution it filed to get Chevron to track its products’ carbon contents after the oil company agreed to comply. The Sisters of St. Dominic said Chevron is the largest company to agree to track its products' carbon content, and pointed out another oil giant -- ExxonMobil -- is still resisting similar proposals.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sky-high fuel prices, declining energy use and a slumping economy gave the U.S. its largest annual decline in fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions since 1982, when emissions fell 5.3 percent.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Following Monday’s announcement it will buy Clear Standards, an environmental accounting software company, SAP unveiled its 2008 Sustainability Report today showing the company reduced greenhouse emissions 6.7 percent in 2008.
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Tesco is charging ahead with its plans to slap a carbon label on all of its private label products to denote the amount of greenhouse gas emissions it takes to produce each item. Next up: toilet paper and paper towels.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- The British Printing Industries Federation and The CarbonNeutral Company have developed a carbon calculator to help printers identify emissions related to facilities and individual print jobs.
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Accounting for a company's indirect greenhouse gas emissions in their supply chains raises a slew of questions: What are the emissions hot spots in a supply chain? Will companies downstream be held responsible? How much "ownership" should they claim?
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Webcor Builders, one of the largest contractors in California, and Climate Earth, a greenhouse gas accounting firm, are joining forces to develop a database of the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in construction materials to help design buildings with smaller carbon footprints.
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The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change wrapped up in Copenhagen with a sobering set of messages to be published in a report in June. The latest climate change research suggests climate change impacts, such as rising sea levels, are occurring faster than previously forecast.