Reporting & Disclosure

The Autodesk team announced this week it has devised a new way of setting goals to reduce its carbon footprint. It's called the Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-Stabilizing Targets, or C-FACT, and the company hopes other businesses will adopt it and even help Autodesk make it better. Read More

The director of MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment considers the decisions companies have to make if they want to be sustainable -- and challenges some of the conventional wisdom. Read More

Although a recent article on GreenBiz.com questioned the usefulness of the triple bottom line concept, four key insights show how TBL can benefit organizations of any size and in any industry. Read More

Kraft Foods vowed to increase the amount of Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa beans ten-fold to 30,000 tons by late 2012, to be used in two premium chocolate brands sold in the European and North American markets. Read More

Hedge fund guru George Soros becomes latest billionaire investor to unveil plans for investing in the fight against climate change. Read More

Many existing insurance coverages will be negatively impacted by climate change, such as professional liability, workers compensation, and of course, property insurance. Without some adjustment and advanced planning, insurers will discover these and other lines of insurance to be unprofitable or possibly taken over by a government-controlled risk transfer mechanism. Read More

Utility company National Grid began sending energy report cards to 50,000 of its Boston area customers this week, hoping their ability to compare consumption with their peers will drive down energy use. Read More

In what is rapidly becoming the trend of the moment, Apple has become the latest company to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber's opposition to climate change legislation. Read More

When it comes to addressing climate change, including measuring and reducing its carbon footprint, Whirlpool leads the pack in the large appliance sector, according to a new analysis. Similarly, Steelcase leaves other furniture makers in the dust for sharing its efforts to measure climate change impacts with the public and setting clear goals to reduce its energy use and emissions. Read More

With their neck-and-neck scores in Newsweek's new green rankings, the two shipping companies' ongoing rivalry continues to heat up. Read More