Business & the Environment

Greenhouse gases--notably, water vapor, ozone, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane--contribute to the greenhouse effect, or the heating of the surface of a planet. Research has indicated...

Many people perceive greenhouse gases negatively because of their connection to global warming. Yet if it weren't for the greenhouse effect, life on Earth might not be possible. The greenhouse...

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...

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...

Global warming is the gradual increase in Earth's temperature caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that become caught in Earth's atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and...

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...

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...

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...