Apple Shuns CSR Report at February’s Shareholder Meeting
March 9, 2010Leave a Comment
In a highly competitive industry, Apple could benefit from more transparency.
In a proxy filing issued in January, Apple’s Board of Directors urged shareholders to vote against a shareholder resolution proposed by As You Sow, an environmental group specializing in shareholding advocacy, and co-sponsored by The New York City Office of the Comptroller and the Green [...]
De Boer Quits UN Post in ‘Sad Day’ for Carbon Market
March 9, 2010Leave a Comment
By Alex Morales
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Yvo de Boer is quitting his post as the United Nations’s climate chief, casting doubt on the effort to establish a worldwide market aimed at reducing the emissions blamed for global warming.
De Boer, 55, will step down as the diplomat leading talks under the UN [...]
Senate Stalled Over Carbon Pricing
March 9, 2010Leave a Comment
Carbon pricing sticks out as senate climate bill’s main obstacle
Senate advocates of comprehensive global warming and energy legislation are stuck on a fundamental question: How should they structure the [...]
Business Leaders Opt to Measure and Report
February 18, 2010Leave a Comment
The secret is that major corporations, even in the United States, are voluntarily signing up and reporting their carbon.
Organizations like the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Global Reporting Initiative are tracking corporate emissions at the request of companies. CRD Analytics, which has a leading index of the Sustainability 100, noted that these companies outperformed the [...]
Credits from Cows
February 16, 20101 Comment
Cows give Point Carbon their One Thousandth Offset Project.
Offset projects, which provide carbon credits for companies so that they can reduce their carbon footprint, have had success in Europe. In the EU, carbon reduction is mandated by the Kyoto protocol. Europe has also faced fuel and energy prices that outweigh those in the US. As [...]
Green Point Joins CRD Analytics LLC
February 11, 2010Leave a Comment
CRD Analytics Engages Greening Point as Business Development Partner
New York, NY.– CRD Analytics LLC and Greening Point, Inc. announced today a partnering agreement that makes the full range of CRD Analytics SmartView™ sustainability investment analytics reporting available as part of the Greening Point solution portfolio.
Greening Point will join the CRD Analytics Preferred Partner Network, enabling [...]
Deutsche Bank: Paying for Renewable Energy
December 16, 20091 Comment
TLC at the Right Price.
Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors (DBCCA) has released a new report that looks at funding for renewable energy. Using TLC (Transparency, Longevity and Certainty), they looked at the factors that support investor confidence and renewable energy markets.
Renewable energy financing has been affectedc by investor’s lack of sophistication in energy markets and [...]
“Stop Gambling with our Future”
December 15, 2009Leave a Comment
Deal with Climate Change
There are some things that speak louder, and more clearly, than anyone could have imagined. But the UN Foundation has done just that for climate change. They created a full deck of playing cards featuring a selection of the words from the more than 2,000 text, photo and video submissions (from more [...]
Chaos in the markets
December 15, 2009Leave a Comment
Meeting rising consumer demand for green/clean products is increasingly difficult, as that demand is coupled with price sensitivities that cannot be met in uncertain regulatory environments. Getting to some clarity may become the job of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Right now, the EPA looks like best bet because it has a mandate to [...]
Bloomberg Bets on Carbon Markets
December 10, 2009Leave a Comment
Acquires Clean Energy Data Leader, New Energy Finance.
To paraphrase, the news of the death of a price on carbon has been greatly exaggerated. A significant proof is Bloomberg’s recent purchase of New Energy Finance, a global leader in providing news, data and analysis on renewable energy, carbon markets, energy efficiency, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, [...]