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The Atlantic

The world is finally cracking down on ‘greenwashing’

By Emma Marris 03/01/23

Let’s say you want to buy a T-shirt and you want your investment to be as environmentally sustainable as possible—after all, clothing production generates 8 to 10 percent of global carbon emissions. How should you…

The Washington Post

Why an iPhone charging feature is facing surprising blowback

By Chris Velazco 03/01/23

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night and groggily rolling over to check the time on your iPhone. Instead of seeing an already full battery indicator, though, you spot something else — a…

Environment+Energy Leader

Leading the Charge: The Clean200 Reveals Top Corporations Paving the Way for Clean Energy Transition

By Jessica Hunt 02/23/23

The information technology sector contributed about $586 billion to the sustainable revenue of the 2023 Clean200 companies, which accounted for almost one-fourth of the total revenue. The communications services sector and the industrials sector followed…

T Mobile

T‑Mobile Announces 2040 Net‑Zero Commitment

01/30/23

The Un‑carrier becomes the first in U.S. wireless to set target to achieve net‑zero emissions across its entire carbon footprint by 2040; also signs onto The Climate Pledge to reinforce commitment

American Clean Power

Clean Energy Powers American Business

01/20/23

Corporations purchased more clean energy in 2022 than any previous year, which is driving up demand for American clean energy and accelerating the clean energy transition.

Sourcing Journal

H&M Hit With Second Greenwashing Lawsuit

By Alexandra Harrell 11/11/22

The Swedish fast-fashion giant canceled its “Conscious Choice” collection in September after a 12-year run following a reprimand from the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets for employing vague and unsubstantiated terms that could mislead…

McKinsey

The green IT revolution: A blueprint for CIOs to combat climate change

By Gerrit Becker and Others 09/15/22

Companies and governments looking to combat climate change are turning to tech for help. AI, new technologies, and some promising tech-driven business models have raised hopes for dramatic progress.

The Guardian

Republicans plan legal assault on climate disclosure rules for public companies

By Adam Lowenstein 09/15/22

Republican officials and corporate lobby groups are teeing up a multi-pronged legal assault on the Biden administration’s effort to help investors hold public corporations accountable for their carbon emissions and other climate change risks.

Forbes

Donnel Baird Raises Over $100 Million For BlocPower By Discovering The Right Problem To Solve

By David Reimer 08/30/22

Donnel Baird created BlocPower to solve a huge problem that’s central to the global effort to address climate change. It is such a big problem that investors have poured over $100 million in debt and…

Environment+ Energy Leader

Lowe’s Cuts Greenhouse Gases by 42% Using Renewables, Energy Efficiency

By Ken Silverstein 08/16/22

Lowe’s Companies is a home-improvement retailer with nearly 2,200 stores in the United States and Canada. The Mooresville, NC company employs 300,000 people and had sales in 2021 of $96 billion. In 2021, it cut…

Geekwire

Amazon’s carbon footprint grew again – up 18% in 2021 – despite ongoing efforts to go green

By Lisa Stiffler 08/01/22

Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 18% last year — the third straight year of increased emissions since the company started sharing the information. The Seattle-area company created the international Climate Pledge, vowing to reach carbon neutrality…

Bloomberg

Ford Plans Up to 8,000 Job Cuts to Help Fund EV Investment

By Keith Naughton and Others 07/21/22

Ford Motor Co. is preparing to cut as many as 8,000 jobs in the coming weeks as the automaker tries to boost profits to fund its push into the electric-vehicle market, according to people familiar…

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TreeHugger

Facebook Moves to Stop Illegal Sale of Amazon Rainforest on Marketplace

By Matt Alderton 10/15/21

From designer baby clothes and classic cars to antique furniture and name-brand electronics, you can find treasures and bargains galore on Facebook Marketplace, the online bazaar where Facebook users sell new and used goods to…

The New York Times

Are Tesla and Texas a Perfect Match? It’s Questionable.

By Niraj Chokshi, Clifford Krauss and Ivan Penn 10/13/21

Tesla’s move from Silicon Valley to Texas makes sense in many ways: The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, and the conservative lawmakers who run the state share a libertarian philosophy, favoring few regulations and low…

Axios

Google pushes sustainability, from new eco routes to Nest features

By Andrew Freedman 10/06/21

Google unveiled a suite of sustainability features focused on giving consumers more information so they can choose to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Driving the news: The product rollout this morning will immediately be noticeable…

The Atlantic

Big Business Is Bankrolling an Effort to Kill the Democratic Climate Bill

By Robinson Meyer 10/01/21

The trade group that represents Apple, Walmart, Nike, and dozens of other companies is trying to kneecap the U.S.’s final chance to meet its 2025 climate goals.

The Guardian

Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill

By Oliver Milman 10/01/21

Some of America’s most prominent companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting landmark climate legislation, despite their own promises to combat the climate crisis, a new analysis has…

Axios

Early lessons from Microsoft’s climate push

By Ben Geman 10/01/21

Microsoft's early finance of carbon removal projects as part of its wider climate pledge has revealed hurdles that must be overcome to enable large-scale deployment of the technologies. Driving the news: Microsoft officials and other…

Nature

Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero

By Lucas Joppa and others 09/29/21

n January this year, Microsoft made a major announcement: it had paid for the removal of 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Among its purchases were projects to expand forests in Peru,…

Triple Pundit

Big Tech Claims to Care About Climate Action, So Why Don’t They Lobby For It?

By Tina Casey 09/22/21

The top five U.S. tech companies have been getting high marks for helping to drive the market for renewable energy, clean vehicles, and other technologies aimed at cutting their carbon footprint. However, Big Tech's influence…

The European Sting

Microsoft’s new campus will run on geothermal energy – but what exactly is it and can it really help combat climate change?

By World Economic Forum 09/14/21

Microsoft is using geothermal energy from deep underground to power its new sustainable campus in the United States. The computing giant is building 93,000 square metres of new workspace on 29 hectares of its Redmond…

Heated

Microsoft tweets concern for Ida victims while funding climate deniers in Congress

By Emily Atkin 09/07/21

The world's second-largest company is still bankrolling climate deniers' re-election campaigns, and defending the practice.

Politico

Biden wants to pay farmers to grow carbon-capturing crops. It’s complicated

By Helena Bottemiller Evich And Ryan Mccrimmon 07/29/21

President Joe Biden’s goal of paying farmers and ranchers to help battle climate change is running into the reality of how complicated and costly it will be. Six months into the administration, officials have yet…

The Verge

Walmart, Ikea, and Amazon have a dirty shipping problem

By Justine Calma 07/20/21

Giant retailers, including Amazon and Ikea, have pledged to go green, but their shipping is still pretty dirty. Now shoppers can now see how much pollution some of the biggest retail companies in the US…

infrastructure-intelligence.com

Partnering for action on climate change

By Zoe Haseman 07/19/21

In 2021, the world’s attention has shifted toward the global drive to net zero, with the United Nations describing it as a “make or break year” for action on climate change. In 2020, net zero…

Mother Jones

Corporate Giants Have Been Lobbying Against Their Own Emissions Targets

By Emily Pontecorvo 07/18/21

Corporate America has made a slew of pledges to reduce its emissions over the past few years. Today, 92 percent of the companies on the S&P 100, an index of leading U.S. stocks, have announced…

Techfunnel

How Financial Institutions Can Help Combat Climate Change

By TechFunnel Contributors 07/15/21

There is often an assumption held by ordinary people that finance and positive environmental change are oxymorons. that the finance industry exists to serve the bottom line and nothing else. This has slowly been changing…

Real Clear Energy

Big Tech Versus Big Oil: Showdown Over Clean Energy Standards?

By Bill Weihl 07/15/21

The issue of Clean Energy Standards (CES), a cornerstone of the Biden climate/infrastructure plan, is emerging as a bellwether on climate policy. For years, climate-positive Big Tech firms have tackled sustainability in company operations, but…

Utilitydive

Too few companies advocate for climate-friendly policies despite lofty goals: report

By Chris Teale 07/13/21

Of the United States' top 100 companies, only 40% lobby lawmakers at the state and federal level for climate-friendly legislation despite setting lofty sustainability goals, according to a new report.

Planet.com

How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

By Andrew Zolli 07/13/21

This is the most important year for climate action since the Paris Climate Agreement was passed in 2015. National governments are strengthening their national climate action plans; companies, cities and communities are setting more ambitious…

S&P Global

Top US companies pledge to cut emissions, but most don’t push for climate action

By Karin Rives 07/13/21

Although 50 of the largest 96 corporations in the U.S. now publicly support the Paris Agreement on climate change, only 40% of those 50 companies have actively been lobbying lawmakers on the importance of science-based…

World Economic Forum

How business can build people-powered climate action

By César Ortiz-Sotelo 07/07/21

There is a growing desire among citizens to engage in climate action. By engaging their stakeholders in effective and meaningful action, companies can hasten our collective journey to net zero.

The Hill

More than 75 companies ask Congress to pass clean electricity standard

By Zack Budryk 07/07/21

More than 75 major U.S. companies including Apple, Google, Lyft and Salesforce signed a letter circulated Wednesday urging Congress to adopt a federal clean electricity standard. In the letter, signers urged the federal government adopt…

The Guardian

Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price

By Chris McGreal 06/30/21

Via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels

Forbes

Leading In The Green Business Boon

By Benjamin Pring 06/29/21

Even with the steep dip in greenhouse gas emissions during the COVID-19 lockdowns, last year saw record-breaking temperatures around the globe and another surge in climate-related disasters. Despite growing efforts from individuals, business and governments to allay the…

The Guardian

New climate science could cause wave of litigation against businesses – study

By Fiona Harvey 06/28/21

Businesses could soon be facing a fresh wave of legal action holding them to account for their greenhouse gas emissions, owing to advances in climate science, experts have warned. More than 1,500 legal actions have…

Causeartist

4 Companies Committed to Combating Climate Change Through Consumer Product Innovation

By Ryan Listo 06/25/21

Climate change is quite possibly the largest crisis facing humanity and the planet, and its effects are already being felt around the world, especially in marginalized communities. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for…

Los Angeles Times

Column: Oil firms and others face unprecedented pressure to come clean on climate change

By Michael Hiltzik 06/25/21

Chevron, one of the world’s leading oil companies, got a major wake-up call on climate change from its shareholders May 26. At its annual meeting that day, a stunning 60.7% of shareholders voted for the…

Popular Science

What companies really mean when they say they’re ‘net-zero’

By Sara Kiley Watson 06/24/21

When it comes to following your favorite brands’ climate ethics, you might hear the phrase “net-zero emissions” get thrown around pretty often. In fact, more than 400 of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies have,…

The New York Times

The Little Hedge Fund Taking Down Big Oil

By Jessica Camille Aguirre 06/23/21

On the day the little investment firm Engine No. 1 would learn the outcome of its proxy battle at Exxon Mobil, its office in San Francisco still didn’t have furniture. Almost everyone had been working…

WSJ

Amazon and Other Tech Giants Race to Buy Up Renewable Energy

By Sam Schechner 06/23/21

The race to secure electricity deals for power-hungry data centers has tech companies reshaping the renewable-energy market and grappling with a new challenge: how to ensure their investments actually reduce emissions.

Packaging Gateway

How packaging companies could drive climate change action: GlobalData

By Jessica Paige 06/22/21

Climate change is having disastrous effects across the globe, disrupting natural systems, raising sea-levels, and more. To combat climate change, governmental action and environmental laws have been implemented in several countries.

Fortune

How Salesforce wants to make its supply chain more sustainable

By Tovin Lapan 06/22/21

Earlier this year, when Salesforce unveiled its Sustainability Exhibit, vice president of sustainability Patrick Flynn already had a good idea that the general response would be well received. That's because Salesforce spent several years testing…

Forbes

These Are The Startups Applying AI To Tackle Climate Change

By Rob Toews 06/20/21

Climate change is the most pressing threat that the human species faces today. Artificial intelligence is the most powerful tool that humanity has at its disposal in the twenty-first century.

CNBC

Google, Facebook, Amazon and more urge SEC to mandate regular climate reports

By Lauren Feiner 06/14/21

A group of seven tech companies urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to require businesses to regularly disclose climate-related matters to their shareholders.

UtilityDive

‘An unlikely alliance’: US investor-owned utilities and NGOs partner to advance new carbon-free tech

By Ben Fowke and Armond Cohen 06/04/21

The stakes for taking decisive action to slow and reverse climate change have never been greater. President Joe Biden clearly recognizes the urgency, which is why he wants to slash U.S. carbon emissions in the…

Axios

Exclusive: Major companies unite to push climate solutions

By Andrew Freedman 06/03/21

A group of eight large companies, including tech and entertainment heavy hitters such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Disney and Netflix, are joining environmental groups and the U.N. to devise ways to scale funding for…

Bloomberg Green

JPMorgan Pledges to Cut Carbon Emissions in Lending Portfolios

By Hannah Levitt 05/13/21

JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest funder of fossil-fuel companies globally, is pledging a 35% reduction in “operational carbon intensity” for its oil and gas portfolio by the end of this decade. The commitment is…

wvtf

Cville Launches Green Business Alliance

By Sandy Hausman 05/05/21

Thirty percent of Fortune 500 companies have announced plans to cut carbon emissions, and now small businesses in Virginia are getting on board. The Community Climate Collaborative in Charlottesville announced formation of a Green Business…

Renewable Energy Magazine

Sol Systems Flips the Switch at Seven Solar Projects for Walmart

04/14/21

Sol Systems has announced the completion of solar energy systems totaling 6.5 megawatts (MW) at seven Walmart stores across California. The portfolio includes a mixture of solar energy systems installed on the rooftops and parking…

Renewable Energy Magazine

Apple Investing in Major Energy Storage Project in California

04/02/21

Apple has announced it is investing directly in renewable energy projects to cover a portion of upstream emissions, as well as a major energy storage project in California to pilot new solutions for renewable infrastructure.

Treehugger

FedEx Investing $2 Billion in Electrification, Greener Jet Fuel, Carbon Capture, and More

By Sami Grover 03/05/21

When I talked to Dan Rutherford from the International Council on Clean Transportation about the relative merits of flying less, flying more efficiently, and flying on different fuels, he argued strongly that we’d need to…

The Wall Street Journal

Exxon, Once a Skeptic, Sees Profit in Capturing Carbon Emissions

By Christopher M. Matthews 03/03/21

Exxon Mobil Corp. says the time has come to turn capturing carbon emissions into a real business, as it faces pressure from activists to become a greener company. That represents an about-face for the Texas…

The Wall Street Journal

SEC Opens Review of Corporate Climate Change Disclosures

By Dieter Holger and Kimberly Chin 02/24/21

The regulator’s previous guidance on climate change was issued more than a decade ago.

Utility Dive

Climate leaders go ‘all in’ to halve emissions by 2030

By Chris Teale 02/23/21

To complement the United States' return to the Paris climate agreement, elected officials joined the business and nonprofit community to launch the "America Is All In" coalition, which aims to collaborate with the federal government on the…

Amazon

20 more companies from around the globe join The Climate Pledge

By Amazon Staff 02/17/21

53 companies, representing almost every sector of the economy, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, demonstrating the global impact of The Climate Pledge.

IBM

IBM Commits To Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2030

02/16/21

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to further its decades-long work to address the global climate crisis.

The Washington Post

There’s an invisible climate threat seeping from grocery store freezers. Biden wants to change that.

By Desmond Butler 02/15/21

New undercover survey suggests leaks of powerful planet-warming gases pervade many supermarkets.

HuffPost

Ikea’s Ambitious Plan To Make Its Cheap Furniture Last Forever

By Alexandra Kirkman 02/10/21

To erase its massive climate footprint, Ikea needs to change how it makes its products and how you buy them.

Climate Crocks

Biggest Investment House: Business Needs to Act on Climate or Governments Will

By Peter Sinclair 01/26/21

I have a rule of thumb. Don’t argue with thermometers. Don’t argue with rising oceans. And don’t argue with investment funds that have 7 trillion dollars under management.

Triple Pundit

Climate Action Is a Matter of National Security, and Business Leaders Can Help

By Tina Casey 01/26/21

President Joe Biden campaigned for office with a message of healing and unity over political divisions. That may seem like a just another vague, warm-and-fuzzy emotional appeal. However, after just a few days in office…

Climate Crocks

Climate Splits Oil Trade Group, Investors

By Peter Sinclair 01/22/21

This week’s cancellation of the Keystone pipeline is yet another strong signal that a paradigm shift in energy is well underway.

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