Archive for the ‘Policy’ Category
Monday, August 9th, 2010
At first glance, it seems that the answer is a plain yes : every actor of the manufacturing industry, every importer has to deal with hundreds, even thousands of suppliers and sub-contractors from all over the world on a daily basis.
The latter, understandably reluctant to communicate too much information to ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Jean Louis Borloo, Chris Huhne and Norbert Röttgen, respectively the French, the British and the German minister in charge with the environment have agreed on the necessity to set more ambitious GHG-emission reduction targets. Here is a brief summary of their case.
This crisis and the economic turmoil downturn that the ...
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
I know this is going to sound nerdy, but hey, I don't care : I am a huge fan of Tolkien's novels and I was thrilled to hear they were about to start shooting a pair of epic fantasy movies based on “The Hobbit”. To be even more accurate, these ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
The concerns brought about by phenomena such as global warming and depletion of natural resources are starting to be genuinely taken into account by governments. This results in the adoption of various regulations and so called green legislations aiming at achieving GHG emissions cuts. Recently, public pressure has prompted more ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Here's an interview of Keenan Hahn, Chief of North American Operations at Verteego Carbon, a carbon accounting and management enterprise software solution, on French web TV decideurstv.com.
According to Keenan Hahn from Verteego Carbon, the inventory, measurement, management, analysis, reduction and reporting of green house gas (GHG) emissions is an increasingly ...
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Mary Jo Padgett met through a brillant American-living-in-Paris good friend of ours, Nicholas Chriss, something like 12 months ago. Mary Jo definitely knows what it takes to help people and businesses go green. You'll find why and how in this interview:
Gérants verts par DECIDEURS TV
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
American International Group, already the recipient of over $170 billion from the US government, has come under fire in recent days for paying out $165 million in bonuses. Without government intervention AIG would have failed, and now the taxpayer money that is supposed to be used to save it, is ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
The popularity of sustainability reports among larger companies has increased rapidly in recent years. Back in the 1980's, only chemical companies issued "sustainability reports." Those reports were really just environmental impact reports. Today, over 50% of the Global Fortune 100 and more than 2000 companies worldwide from every imaginable ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
A new rule proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency will require just over 13,000 facilities accounting for nearly 90% of US greenhouse gas emissions to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The plan would require companies in a broad range of industries that emit at least 25,000 metric tons of ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Here we are. The final installation in the 10-part series on sustainability in your office has arrived. Just to recap briefly, here is a list of the previous nine topics covered in The Sustainable Office.
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1. Computers
2. Lighting
3. Paper and Ink
4. Commuting
5. Packaging
6. Water
7. Air
8. Furniture
9. Food
And the final, most ...
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