Articles Tagged with ''greenhouse gas emissions''

Kraft Heinz releases corporate social responsibility report

The strategy also builds upon CSR goals and policies aimed at eliminating global hunger and malnutrition, creating a more sustainable supply chain and reducing its environmental footprint, as well as a more recent commitment to raise standards for treatment of broiler chickens in its U.S. supply chain.
December 5, 2017
The Kraft Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., released its inaugural corporate social responsibility (CSR) report.
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San Pedro Bay Ports approve new clean air strategies

The document provides high-level guidance for accelerating progress toward a zero-emission future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy.
November 3, 2017
The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) update, ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through what is said to be the nation’s busiest container port complex.
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Smithfield Foods announces new environmental initiative

Smithfield Renewables will ensure the company meets its environmental commitments.
October 12, 2017
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., launched Smithfield Renewables, a new platform within the organization that will unify, lead and accelerate the company's carbon reduction and renewable energy efforts.
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Zero emissions insight in new power-train technology helps build low carbon future for Norway

ASKO, a Norway-based grocery retail logistics provider, is using zero emission expertise from Lloyd’s Register, London, in an effort to achieve 100% zero emissions in its transportation of goods and services.
August 22, 2017
Lloyd’s Register’s Risk Management Consulting team in Norway signed three exclusive frame agreements to help companies in the region achieve sustainable approaches to cut pollution from greenhouse gas emissions across its transportation sector.
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True cost accounting pilot reveals hidden impacts of food, people

This study study calculated the cost of water pollution, pesticide exposure, greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion for several types of produce.
June 13, 2017
Organic fruit specialist Eosta, The Netherlands, accounting firm EY (formerly Ernst & Young), New York, and other partners revealed the first results of a groundbreaking pilot program that demonstrates how organic fruit production has a positive economic impact on agriculture, the environment and consumer health.
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Tyson Foods, World Resources Institute collaborate to meet GHG, water conservation targets

This agreement follows a recent announcement about Tyson Foods’ commitment to a healthier workplace and the decision to move to no antibiotics ever in its Tyson branded retail line of chicken.
May 22, 2017
Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., announced a collaboration with the World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington, D.C., to develop science-based greenhouse gas (GHG) and outcome-based water conservation targets for its operations and the company’s supply chain.
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Study: How Big Data can help save the planet

This new study leverages mobile network data to estimate levels of carbon emissions and air pollution in cities.
May 1, 2017
Teralytics, New York, Telefónica NEXT, Germany, and sustainability solution provider South Pole Group, San Francisco, conducted a study in Nuremberg, Germany, that reveals the analysis of mobile network data as an effective way to estimate CO2 and NOX emissions in urban areas.
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