I am having a blast covering clean tech from a research and consulting perspective. What is it that makes clean tech such a stimulating area? The panel discussions at the excellent Financial Times conference on the U.S. energy business yesterday prompted me to reflect on this question. (You can see my conference tweets here.) Yes, [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 22, 2009
Savvy Strategy Guides Carbon Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an organization with a clear goal, a simple premise and a savvy strategy. A research project on sustainability in the supply chain that I just completed (link forthcoming when the report becomes available for purchase) clued me into just how effective its strategy has been. First, its goal. CDP [...]
September 15, 2009
Carbon Footprinting at CPGs
At the Sustainability Stakeholder Engagement conference in New York today The Carbon Trust, a UK non-profit tasked with reducing carbon emissions, presented alongside PepsiCo International. The two have worked together to calculate the carbon footprint of dozens of Pepsico products. Pepsico got involved in footprinting its products in the U.K. in respose to rising consumer [...]
