The U.K.’s Environment Agency published “Environmental Disclosures,” its second major review of environmental reporting among FTSE companies. Since the last review, in 2004, significant progress has been made in reporting. Almost every single company, 98%, listed on the FTSE All-Share Index now mentions the environment in their annual reports, unfortunately, for some that’s all they …
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EU environment failing: air pollution, biodiversity loss and poor water quality
The European Environment Agency released its fourth assessment report on the environmental situation in 53 European countries, highlighting significant air pollution, biodiversity loss and poor water quality across the region. The irony of the report is that a principal cause of these problems is growing consumption and the demand for transport neither of which people …
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Nine inconvenient errors …
As Al Gore receives a Nobel for his climate change work, a UK court has ruled that schools may only show his film An Inconvenient Truth accompanied by qualification of a number of inconclusive facts. While the parent who brought the case may feel vindicated, the ruling will have the benefit of demanding more thought …
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The State of the Paper Industry 2007 – change for sustainability needed
The State of the Paper Industry 2007 released by the Environmental Paper Network examines how the paper is made today in the face of growing environmental awareness in the US, and calls for major changes across the industry to reduce impact and increase sustainability. The need for this assessment, the group says, is that a …
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Consumer goods giants to analyse supply footprint. Fuel for carbon rating products?
Wal-Mart announced that it will parter with the Carbon Disclosure Project to measure the energy use and emissions of the entire supply chain of seven product categories, and find ways to increase their energy efficiency. And in the UK several global companies are calling on their supply chain partners in the UK to measure and …
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Green IT top strategic technology
Gartner research group released a list of 10 strategic technologies for 2008 that could pose a significant impact on enterprises during the next three years. The impact could include the risk of late adoption, the need for a major capital investment or a high potential for disruption to IT or business. Green IT topped the …
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Anti-whaling video
The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling video aimed at Japanese children. The video, which carries Japanese subtitles, urges all countries to stop catching and killing whales. (Japan opposes the international prohibition of commercial whaling. Every year it hunts hundreds of whales in Antarctica under what it describes as a scientific research programme. This year, …
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EU to help SMEs green operations
European commission has unveiled a plan to reduce the environmental impact of small and medium size businesses and boost their compliance with EU environmental legislation. The plan coincides with a review of EU efforts to increase the competitiveness of these firms and contains measures for increasing SMEs’ awareness of environmental issues through training and better …
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Humanity’s demands on nature, in pictures
These super pictures illustrate the density of primary production across planet earth and the demands by humans, relative to that local production capacity. The massive productivity of the Amazon basin and similar sub-tropical environments stand out. And it is interesting to see the greatest relative demands being made in the Middle East, India and China. …
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Ice shelf disintegration signals faster melting
The giant Ayles Ice Island drifting off Canada’s northern shores has broken in two – far earlier than expected. The original Manhattan-sized berg (16km by 5 km) broke off the Ayles Ice Shelf in 2005. A team which landed on the Ayles ice block in May found it to have an average thickness of 42-45m …
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