Corporate Climate Savers
Do you want to know what products to endorse or avoid? Do you want to buy shares of Green corporations or sell those of major contributors to climate change? Good for you! You are on the right page.
So buy shares in the below green movers. And as for ExxonMobil..... sell, sell, sell!
WWF Climate Savers
Businesses and corporations round the world are already leading their governments with voluntary green initiatives that can help reduce greenhouse gases whilst saving them money.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have set up a Climate Savers Programme whereby they work with companies to reduce emissions. These cutting-edge partnerships deliver new and additional reductions in CO2 emissions placing them at the forefront in leading to measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
By 2010, existing Climate Savers companies will reduce their carbon dioxide pollution by over ten million tons each year, the equivalent of taking 2 million cars off the road. By increasing efficiency, Climate Savers companies are saving hundreds of millions of dollars, proving again that protecting the environment makes good business sense.
Green Companies Worth Support
Congratulations to these Climate Savers and award winners:
(in no particular order!)
- United Parcel Service (logistics)
- Nike (sports apparel)
- Johnson+Johnson (consumer goods, toiletries)
- IBM (IT, computing)
- Tetrapak (packaging)
- Poloroid (cameras)
- Sony (IT, electronics, camcorders)
- Lafarge (cement)
- Bank of America
- Windsave, an award-winning provider of wind power systems
- ScottishPower Renewables (energy)
- The Co-operative Group are 2007 winners of BCE awards.
- Marshalls are creating sustainable landscapes and are also 2007 winners of BCE awards.
- Ford and Toyota are winners for their management contribution at their automobile plants.
- Hambleside-Danelaw are innovative roofing manufacturers who have won many awards for reducing their carbon footprint.
- InterfaceFLOR are carpet manufacturers and 2005 winners of BCE awards.
Other corporations taking initiatives to be environmentally-conscious include:
- Sharp and their practices and R&D at Kameyama super green factory.
- Green architect XCO2 are leading the green architectural field from London in sectors including wind power, green roofs, passive energy and consultation for carbon strategy for corporations.
Want to take action, but not sure where to start? Well try Envirowise for practical environmental advice for business, or call their helpline on 0800 585794. This is a government programme including environmental legislation (in your sector) and regional support. You may also like to join one of their local workshops.
Is your Company Worthy of an Award?
So you've done ISO14001, been praised and benchmarked by your peers who say you are one of the best? Why not look through these links to see all the awards out there in your field?
Look no further for the award category for you (or a company you'd like to recommend): Environmental Awards and Green Awards (UK) have the links.
European Commission's Environment Directorate-General (DG) holds awards every two years:
European Business Awards for the Environment. These are the Oscars of environmental awards in Europe, but to qualify, you should go through a feeder scheme of DEFRA!
One of these feeder schemes is VIBES (Vision of Business for the Environment Scotland) which holds annual competitions for environmental companies in Scotland for small, medium and large business categories. Well done to ScottishPower Renewables, the 2006 Winner.
Another feeder scheme is The Green Apple Awards conferred in many business categories.
The Financial Times and Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards started in 2007 for both large enterprises and SMEs.
Checkout BCE awards & dCarbon8 & their Planet Positive trade mark.
There are so many Environment Award schemes out there these days that RSA has set up an accreditation body for awards to maintain standards.
Greenbiz.com have a good awards directory, so check it out!
For a green video contest, click here.
Next European awards are in 2008 so get your application in via feeder scheme now. Good luck!