Cap And Trade, A Carbon Tax?

Examiner – Congress has just passed a cap and trade bill that seeks to reduce America’s carbon emissions. The bill limits the amount of carbon a business is allowed to produce. Any carbon produced above the limit specified in the bill must be offset through the purchase of carbon credits. It is estimated that the [...]

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The Carbon Disclosure Project

CDP (London)—The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world. Numerous U.S based companies report their carbon emissions and risk with the CDP, including:
Ace Ltd, Admiral Group, Aetna Inc., AFLAC, Allstate, Ambac Financial Group, American International Group, Inc., Aon Corporation, Assurant, [...]

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EPA Climate Leaders

EPA (Washington, D.C.)—The Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program is an EPA industry-government partnership that helps companies develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Participating companies complete a corporate-wide inventory of their greenhouse gas emissions, set goals for GHG emission reduction and submit reports to the EPA.
Source: http://www.epa.gov/climateleaders/index.html (Reliability 7 )

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Green House Gas Protocol And Initiative

GHGP (Washington, D.C.)—The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is an widely used international accounting tool for green house gas emissions. The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) developed the GHG Protocol as a partnership to provide credible and reliable programs for businesses and governments to understand, quantify, and [...]

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Will The Market Fill In Where ACES Fails?

Sustainable Industries (Portland)—Kevin Wilhelm, CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting and the author of “Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability & Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy,” assesses the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) which was passed by
the House of Representatives (H.R. 2454) last week. In its final form Wilhelm notes [...]

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Helping the green economy: ACCA launches climate change microsite

AACA (UK)—The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (AACA) has launched a new microsite on climate change to help business capture opportunities and mitigate risk associated with climate change.
The rise in recognition of the importance of climate change for business and the accountancy profession has led ACCA to develop this quarterly, online news portal. Each newsletter [...]

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Ecological Footprinting Analysis—Towards a Sustainability Indicator for Business

ACCA (UK)—In their Research Report 65, Chambers and Lewis through the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (AACA) review a number of approaches for business wishing to improve their environmental and social performance and to benefit from their efforts. Businesses have been challenged by the lack of credible systems to measure, monitor, and report their [...]

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Measuring Progress in Corporate Reporting

IISD— (Manitoba) The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) explains the many interactions that the business sector has with the environmental, social, and economic sectors in the manufacture of products and the delivery of services. Companies use sustainable development reporting to help understand this interaction through the “triple bottom line” approach. This approach includes indicators [...]

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House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change

27 June 2009
New York Times—(Washington) John Broder reports that the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454 yesterday in a 219 to 212 vote. The bill outlines a cap and trade system for green house gas emissions which will sets limits and allowances for emissions. Emitters are allowed to trade the allowances. However, limits will get [...]

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American Clean Energy and Security Act

This is the full bill HR2454, also referred to as the cap and trade, or the American Clean Energy and Security Act.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/text

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