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Climate Change, Jun 30th, 2010,
In light of a recent survey naming UK companies as the worst among 300 of Europe’s largest corporations when it comes to their contribution to global warming, another survey has been released, this time focusing only on British firms. The new list, called the FTSE carbon strategy index, compares Britain’s 350 biggest companies in terms of their response to climate change. The idea is that those companies with the best carbon strategies will also be the most efficient and well run. From an article in the Guardian: The new FTSE carbon strategy index weighs up the “carbon risk and performance”…
Tags: 350, carbon, Climate change, companies, corporations, emissions, firms, FTSE, Greenpeace, index, list, palm oil, strategy, survey, UK, Unilever
Climate Change, Jun 28th, 2010,
Ethical investment consultant firm Eiris has judged 300 of Europe’s top companies in terms of their contribution to global warming and found that more than half are UK-based. Eiris found that the number of British companies determined to have a ‘very high impact on global warming’ was double that of any other country. Of those companies in the top 300 dedicated to solving or mitigating the problems of climate change, only 3% were located in Britain. Eiris’s findings come at a time when BP, one of the UK’s best-known companies, has attracted bad publicity worldwide over the Gulf of Mexico…
Tags: 300, Britain, British, Climate change, companies, Eiris, Europe, firm, global warming, oil, survey, UK
Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 18th, 2010,
![]( "<!--:en-->Full disclosure: Multinational corporations")
' src='http://gf2.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/7465.jpg' alt='full-disclosure-multinational-corporations-feed-us-rainforests' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> A new report by the Forest Footprint Disclosure initiative discloses how global business is destroying the one of the world’s most valuable resources: its rainforests. A UK government backed project, Forest Footprint Disclosure’s aim is to inform investors and the public about how organizations contribute to deforestation. The results are not good: the beef, soy, palm oil, biofuels and lumber industries all significantly cause rainforest destruction – and they are all big moneymakers. In the current economic model, cold hard cash is worth a lot more than natural capital. Despite pockets of growing awareness, this model of heedless, irresponsible consumption…
Tags: BBC, Brazil, Brazilian, Business, companies, food, Forest Footprint Disclosure, investor, multinational, rainforest
