Sustainability Outlook

GRI Launches Reporting Guidance for Utilities

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) which provides the world’s most widely-used sustainability reporting guidance - launched new guidance on transparency and sustainability for electric utility companies at the 2009 Ceres conference in San Francisco. The new guidance will enable electric utility firms to measure and publicly disclose their performance on a range of economic, environmental and social indicators which is increasingly sought by investors, consumers, corporate buyers and other industry stakeholders.

Auto industry bailout's : Red ink on green policies

Before automakers asked for bailouts, governments had set them tougher - than - ever targets for emissions and fuel economy, and taxpayers' funds had been allocated to help companies reach them.

P&G Doubles 2012 Green Goals

The Procter and Gamble Co. intends to double its per-unit reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions, waste generation and water and energy consumption by 2012 as part of an effort to make its environmental goals more robust.

Corporations learn how to earn by going 'green'

A group of companies thinks it is getting closer to using renewable energy for its ROR. ROR stands for "rate of return," and it's the bottom line for even the most eco-conscious corporations as they weather the economic storm

First Indonesian Palm Oil Company Certified Sustainable

A major Indonesian plantation company has become the country's first certified maker of sustainable palm oil. Musim Mas Group Plantations, is the first company in Indonesia to demonstrate that some of its plantations comply with the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Principles and Criteria, a set of standards that helps ensure that palm oil is produced in a socially and environmentally responsible way.