Energy

For the business community, the place to find out what has and is taking place at the COP15 climate conference is the daily BINGO meetings, which stands for Business and Industry Non Governmental Organizations. On the third day of the conference, the BINGO meeting saw debate over a controversial Danish text some say favors developed countries, while separately, the island of Tuvalu asked for the conference to be suspended until developed countries take on legally binding targets. Read More

The Coca-Cola Company has pledged to replace all its vending machines using hydrofluorocarbons with coolers that employ more environmentally friendly refrigerants by 2015, the beverage firm and Greenpeace said. Read More

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA launches a comprehensive resource today to guide cities and countries, step by step, through the process of greening their communities. Read More

(Episode 99): Scott Vitters, the Coca-Cola Company's global head of sustainable packaging, takes the wraps off the company's new PlantBottle, a recyclable PET plastic container made partially from plants. Read More

AU Optronics Corp., Taiwan's largest manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels, has helped craft a “Solar Frisbee Roof” to canopy playground equipment at a Taipei schoolyard.   Read More

In releasing its first-ever sustainability data, the U.S. Postal Service shows that it has cut total energy use by 9 percent in the past three years, while making strides in e-waste recycling and energy intensity. Read More

Climate Counts has compiled its third scorecard rating 90 major corporations on their efforts to measure and reduce their climate impact, support or oppose climate legislation and disclose their actions. Nike retained the top score for the second year in a row as some companies that previously had low scores shot up in the rankings. Read More

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 headquarters for PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Northern America, REI stores in Texas and Illinois and more than a million square feet of office space in Denver managed by Transwestern have achieved gold and silver LEED ratings. Read More

The analysis of 270 climate and energy policies at the regional, state and national level finds that investors in firms in a number of countries are at moderate risk from climate change, while only investments in Italy pose the highest risk to date. Read More