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As Sustainable Business notes : ” As part of its new sustainability goals, 3M aims to improve its energy efficiency 25% by 2015. 3M’s 2015 Sustainability Goals build upon its record of environmental achievements, which go back to 1990. “
” Since 1990, the company has cut greenhouse gases 72% and reduced solid waste indexed to sales by 66%. Those achievements have built its reputation as a global sustainability leader.”
Here is another great example of a global company that understood that the environment can go hand in hand with business. Congratulations 3M !
To TreeHugger : ” Electronics giant Sony announced today that since 2000, it has achieved a 31 percent reduction in global CO2 emissions. The company boasts that means it surpassed its 2006 “Green Management” goal by 24 percent ”
” It did also achieve, though, a 54 percent reduction in waste generation (the goal was 40 percent) and a 41 percent reduction in water use at business sites (the goal was 20 percent).”
” The announcement comes after a third-party analysis of data from Sony’s facilities worldwide confirmed that the company met or exceeded several of the targets laid out in 2006 in its Green Management 2010 plan.”
The Guardian published last week a most interesting series of articles on a report to be published this year by the United Nations and Trucost which estimates the damages on the environment to $2.2 trillion per year.
To the newspaper ” the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment”
This poses an important question: Are we ready to pay for the damages done to the environment ? This question leads to many others on our societies and economies. Continue »
In the last few days I came across three different news on how large companies are beginning to act on global warming and demand climate change mitigation action from global governments.
The most important is the Copenhagen communiqué a message from 600 large companies – including Nike, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Tesco and SC Johnson – which demand drastic action from global governments.
Coca Cola pledged to cut by 15 percent its greenhouse gases emissions by 2020 while selling two times more products but most importantly Dell cut its emissions by 18 percent in one single year. Continue »
