Category Archives: emissions
My Clean, Green, Sustainable Reading List
Over the last few months I’ve been reading through the literature on clean tech, energy and sustainability. In case you are looking for suggestions, I can recommend any or all of these. If you have any reactions or suggestions for … Continue reading
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Are Climate-Savvy Companies Better Investments?
A new report by Goldman Sachs suggests that rising cost to emit carbon dioxide will have a significant impact on the competitive position and long-term valuation of companies. Continue reading
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The Cost of Corporate Carbon Footprinting
Many factors influence the cost of conducting a corporate greenhouse case inventory, including company size and complexity of operations. We can find examples of corporate inventories that cost as little as a few thousand dollars to conduct up to the $1 million annually that UPS spends. Continue reading
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Unintended Consequences, Part II: Air vs. Water
I recently posted on the unintended consequences that often come along with energy technologies. An article by Forest Reinhardt in the Harvard Business Review 10 years ago presented a framework for making environmental strategy and investment decisions. It also provided … Continue reading
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Soda Machines Return $1 Million: Facts & Figures from a Green Conference
I attended a conference produced by Executive Council today in New York City entitled “The Green in Green.” Here are a few facts and figures I gathered from the discussion. Cost of Carbon Bob Stoffel of UPS said the company … Continue reading
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Are Biofuels the Answer?
Are biofuels the answer? It depends on what the question is. Biofuel Investment Prospects BusinessWeek this week has a solid article reviewing the investment landscape for biofuels. The question it tries to answer is, Who will make money in biofuels? … Continue reading
Weird Consensus on Global Warming Emerging?
Are the arguments about global warming getting weirder? Last week Bjorn Lomborg opined in the New York Times, as he has elsewhere, that cutting emissions of greenhouse gases is a waste of time. Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” which … Continue reading
Sustainability and Corporate Strategy
I was at The Economist’s 2009 Sustainability Summit this morning. (Thanks for having me, Economist.) It kicked off with a review of the global economic situation by Leo Abruzzese, Editorial Director for North America of the Economist Intelligence Unit. (They … Continue reading
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Carbon Tax vs. Carbon Caps: Dissecting the Rhetoric
Like many public policy debates, the one over how to best reduce carbon emissions is too complex to be properly treated in an Op-Ed article. That’s why yesterday’s piece in the Wall Street Journal by Fred Krupp, president of Environmental … Continue reading
