Business & the Environment

Hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't expected to reach mass market anytime soon, but the prospects of reducing greenhouse gas emissions are compelling to researchers and politicians alike.

Devastating consequences are now inevitable due to climate change and the failure of governments around the world to adequately address greenhouse gas emissions. Climate-related disasters will...

Pollutants are toxins that have been released into the environment either accidentally or intentionally. Immediate effects are often observed at the site, such as plant die-off from fuel spills....

Cap and trade is an environmental policy that caps emissions of certain pollutants. It allows industries to buy or sell permits to emit pollutants as long as the overall industry limits are...

Cars are the greatest contributing agent of pollution in most cities across the globe. Emissions from car exhaust contain a range of toxic substances. They include carbon monoxide, nitrogen...

Since the Industrial Revolution, the global climate has changed. According to the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth's surface temperature has risen slowly rise since then, about 0.5 percent...

Acid rain is mostly caused by emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which combine with moisture in the atmosphere, resulting in an increase in the acidity of precipitation. While there...

The best control measure, of course, is prevention. However, as long as there are fossil fuel emissions from our coal-burning factories and gas-burning automobiles, there will be air pollution....

In the world of corporate responsibility and social entrepreneurship, there is a belief that business can be both good for the environment and highly competitive. Advocates of this view say the...

In attempts to personalize the harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions on the enviornment, scientists have coined the term "carbon footprint." Our carbon footprint refers to the impact that...

Consumers aren't the only ones going green these days. Through the use of carbon credits, businesses all over the world are becoming more environmentally friendly as well. However, few consumers...

Al Gore may have popularized the concept of sustainability in 'An Inconvenient Truth', but it's actually an idea that's been around for decades. Sustainable development means conducting ourselves...

As greenhouse gas emissions increase, policymakers continuously seek new ways to mitigate the problem. Carbon credit trading is one approach. By capping greenhouse emissions, industries are...

Greenhouse gas emissions are the byproducts of all our energy-consuming activities. The pollution from power plants is due to humans not making the best environmental choices. People must know...

Various international emissions trading markets can be found throughout the world. They were developed in an effort to control environmental problems, such as greenhouse gas emissions, prior to...

Just about every facility emits some type of greenhouse gas. In an effort to encourage businesses to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, there is an important tool called a carbon footprint...

The 5% materiality definition threshold is standard within financial accounting practices and represents the amount of insignificant emissions allowed. Entities have the flexibility to...

By definition, organizational boundaries determine an entity’s operation and whether it is owned or controlled by another company. The greenhouse gas emissions reporting can be based on either the...

Under the EPAs carbon reporting proposal, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, among them hydrofluorocarbons, methane, perfluorocarbons, nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride, must be...

In flexographic printing, a substrate (any material that is to be printed on) is passed between two rollers, the impression cylinder and the plate cylinder. The impression cylinder is there to...

What makes additionality a challenging issue and a tough concept to explain is not its actual definition, but its application in practice. There is no way to determine with absolute certainty if a...

As part of the Kyoto Protocol, emissions trading was introduced as a way to reduce the creation of greenhouse gases. Through this agreement, companies are issued carbon credits, each of which...

To separately account for direct and indirect emissions, to improve transparency, and to provide adaptability for different types of organizations and different types of climate policies, the...

Selling carbon credits to large companies that produce a large volume of pollution can be a lucrative way for some smaller companies to earn revenue. Businesses that are involved in reducing...

Organizations are required to track the refrigerant leak rates and report annul refrigerant usage it to the EPA. Fugitive emissions in particular are defined in carbon emissions reporting...

The newly formed Obama administration has listed greenhouse gas (GHG) tracking and reporting as a major goal, with the objective of protecting the future of the environment by reducing today's...

The EPA recently announced a plan which covers the need for mandatory carbon emissions reporting and thus is aimed at controlling the levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and carbon dioxide (CO2) and...

The Climate Registry makes it politically and geographically easier for countries to come together to achieve positive effects on climate change. By using a common framework or set of reporting...

President Barack Obama proposed in his 2010 budget to auction off pollution permits with a cap-and-trade program, dividing up the right for industry and business to emit -- for a payment to the...

This article explains, at a high-level, a few of the emerging carbon emissions reporting protocols. There are dozens CO2 reporting requirements under development Worldwide. As of early 2009, The...

Air pollution is caused by humans introducing chemicals and other materials into the air. These pollutants are dangerous to both the environment and our own health. Air pollution has a wide range...

Over the course of the last 20 years, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased at a rate of 1.5 parts per million each year. The ever-growing population and continued...

There's alot of talk these days of global warming and the consequences. The concerns stem from the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. To help combat these, nations are starting to...