rare earths
Business

China Must Lift Trade Restrictions on Rare Earth Elements

GENEVA, Switzerland, August 13, 2014 (ENS) – In a decision that affects automakers around the world, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, has ruled that China’s export duties and quotas on rare earth elements are not justified for reasons of environmental protection or conservation policy. […]

Tesla Model S
Business

Tesla, Panasonic to Build ‘Gigafactory’ for Electric Car Batteries

PALO ALTO, California, August 4, 2014 (ENS) – Electric car batteries are about to get cheaper and more abundant. Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors signed an agreement Thursday detailing their cooperation to construct and operate the Gigafactory, a $5 billion, large-scale lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in the United States. […]

buses
Business

Indore Becomes Demonstration City for Sustainable Mobility

INDORE, India, July 28, 2014 (ENS) – City of Indore officials Friday agreed to work with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to implement sustainable mobility solutions in the city with the latest technologies, systems and management approaches to improve transportation […]

drinks
Business

Pepsi, Coke Pledge to Respect Land, Fisheries, Forest Rights

ROME, Italy, April 25, 2014 (ENS) – The two largest beverage companies in the world have pledged to conduct their businesses in ways that promote secure ownership rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests as a means of eradicating hunger and poverty, supporting sustainable development and protecting the environment. […]

office
Business

Trillions in Public Spending Will Shift to Greener Purchases

NEW YORK, New York, April 1, 2014 (ENS) – A new global program was launched today that aims to harness the trillions of dollars that governments spend each year on procurement of everything – from computers to food to travel – to fund a more resource-efficient, low-carbon world. […]

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Air/Climate

ExxonMobil Agrees to Report Carbon Stranded Asset Risk

NEW YORK, New York, March 24, 2014 (ENS) – In response to a shareholder resolution, ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. energy company, for the first time has agreed to publish a Carbon Asset Risk report on the company website. The report will show investors ExxonMobil’s plans for a low-carbon future. […]

Caesars
Business

U.S. EPA Honors Corporations for Cutting Greenhouse Gases

SAN DIEGO, California, February 25, 2014 (ENS) – Corporations as different as aerospace giant Boeing, Caesars Entertainment with its hotels and casinos, the networking equipment company Cisco Systems, Fruit of the Loom underwear, the Hartford Financial Services Group, telecommunications company Sprint and Mack Trucks were honored today for their leadership in protecting the climate. […]

bikes
Business

Booming Globally, Bike-Sharing Spins Its Wheels in Montreal

MONTREAL, Canada, February 14, 2014 (ENS) – “Today there are an estimated 639 bicycle-sharing schemes operating in 53 countries located in almost every region of the world, boasting a total of about 643,000 bicycles,” bike-sharing expert Peter Midgley writes in a new blog post for EMBARQ, a program of the environmental think tank World Resources Institute. […]

Forum, Beijing
Business

Europe and China Join Forces to Upgrade Urban Mobility

BEIJING, China, November 25, 2013 (ENS) – The European Union and China are working together to improve urban mobility. On Thursday, European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas, in charge of transport, addressed the Second EU China Urban Forum in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing. […]

Grasberg mine
Business

Swedish Pension Funds Divest Freeport McMoRan Holdings

MELBOURNE, Australia, October 18, 2013 (ENS) – Swedish pension fund authorities have followed the lead of counterparts in Norway and New Zealand in divesting all holdings in the American company Freeport McMoRan, which operates the world’s biggest copper and gold mine in the contested province of Papua, in Indonesia. […]

Inose
Business

Tokyo Wins 2020 Olympic Bid Plus Climate Leadership Award

TOKYO, Japan, September 9, 2013 (ENS) – Tokyo Mayor Naoki Inose is a happy man. On Saturday his city was named as the host of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. And less than a week ago Tokyo won an inaugural City Climate Leadership Award for the world’s first city-level greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program. […]

Google
Business

Google Cuts Carbon Footprint But Funds Climate Change Deniers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, August 15, 2013 (ENS) – Google’s self-confessed obsession with building energy efficient data centers and buying renewable energy has paid off. The search engine giant says it reduced its carbon footprint by nine percent in 2012. But its recent funding of right-wing climate deniers has undermined its reputation as a green corporation. […]