KKR Extends Green Program to a Fifth of Global Portfolio
ClimateBiz | 08 Feb 2010
Global Equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) has extended its money-saving environmental management program to 20 percent of its portfolio, including two companies located outside the U.S.
 Economy | Industry | Climate Change | Global Warming

Climate row scientist says he considered suicide
CNN | 08 Feb 2010
The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.
 Climate Change

Weak ETS needs tightening to be effective - EAC
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 08 Feb 2010
The Environmental Audit Commission has published its third report on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in which it blasts the mechanism for being too loose to be effective and calls for a 'significant' tightening of caps.
 Climate Change

Earlier glacial melt rate revised downward, but recent melt is accelerating dramatically
ScienceDaily.com | 07 Feb 2010
Glaciologists have shown that previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40 years.
 Climate Change

Rob Hopkins: Getting over oil, one town at a time
New Scientist | 07 Feb 2010
The founder of the Transition Towns movement explains why he is optimistic that we can survive peak oil and minimise climate change
 Climate Change

Oceans reveal further impacts of climate change
ScienceDaily.com | 05 Feb 2010
The increasing acidity of the world's oceans -- and that acidity's growing threat to marine species -- are definitive proof that the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing climate change is also negatively affecting the marine environment.
 Climate Change

Novo Nordisk Slashes Emissions and Water Use, But Sees Waste Grow
ClimateBiz | 05 Feb 2010
Novo Nordisk slashed greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption in 2009, at the same time the Danish pharmaceutical giant boosted sales and profit over the year before.
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Why Green Business is Like Teen Sex
ClimateBiz | 05 Feb 2010
Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very much. And when they do it, they don’t do it very well. Friend and colleague Joel Makower likes to tell that joke, and it’s as good a way as any to introduce Greenbiz.com’s third annual State of Green Business report.
 Economy | Industry | Climate Change | Global Warming

White roofs can cool cities
New Scientist | 05 Feb 2010
Dark roads and roofs make cities hotter than the countryside - but highly reflective white roofs would cool them by an average of 0.6 C
 Climate Change

Learning from climate's sedimental journey
ScienceDaily.com | 29 Jan 2010
By analyzing sediments up to 4,000 years old, an environmental scientist is hoping to provide a tool to help predict future climate change. Ancient records of what was happening with climate conditions can be used with regional climate models to tell a story of what happened in the past and to correlate it to the present and the future. Current models typically use data only for the last 100 ...
 Climate Change