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Carbon Management Is Becoming a Core Supply Chain Business Issue

By Tracey de Morsella on March 15, 2010 1 Comment A.T. Kearney, Acer, BAE Systems, Bank of America, Baxter International, Brad Minnis, Cadbury, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon emissions, carbon management, carbon reduction, Carrefour, CDP Supply Chain Report, Climate Change, Colgate-Palmolive Company, ConAgra Foods, Daniel Mahler, Dell, EMC Corporation, emissions, ENEL, energy reduction, Europe, FIJI Water, GHG management, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, green house gas, H.J. Heinz Company, HP, IBM, Imperial Tobacco Group, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Controls, Juniper Networks, Kao, L'Oréal, Logica, National Australia Group, National Grid, Newmont Mining Corporation, Paul Dickinson, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble Company, Reckitt Benckiser, Royal Mail Group, Sony Corporation, supplier engagemen, suppliers, supply chain, Tracey de Morsella, Unilever, Vivendi, Vodafone Group

Companies are now requiring their suppliers to address carbon management as a core business issue. A plan to deselect some suppliers in the future for failing to meet carbon management criteria set by the companies. These organizations are increasinigly developing strategies for engaging with suppliers on carbon related issues amd have emissions or energy reduction plans in place.

The Four Best Practice Strategies Needed for Successful Carbon Management

By Tracey de Morsella on March 10, 2010 1 Comment BAE Systems, Best Practices Carbon Management, BHP Billiton, BP, building management systems, business process changes, carbon issue, carbon management, carbon management strategies, carbon reduction plan, CEOs, Chief Sustainability Officer, cisco, CO2 emissions, CO2 reduction goals, cross-functional strategy, CSR Directors, Dow Chemical Company, electric vehicle fleet trials, energy managers, finance, financial analysis, fuel data, granular energy, HP, Operations, Peter Charville-Mort, Proctor & Gamble, SAP, social responsibility, sustainability programs, Tracey de Morsella, transformational change, unintended consequences, Verdantix, Wal-Mart

A new report released by independent research firm, Verdantix, explains why firms are floundering with carbon management and putting the future of the business at risk due to flawed governance and strained business processes. It warns that unless CEOs take ownership of carbon management as a business transformation challenge their firms will fail to achieve absolute reductions in CO2 emissions.

DOE Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Information Economy

By Chris de Morsella on January 20, 2010 1 Comment advanced heat-sink, air conditioning, air-leakage measurement, Alcatel-Lucent, Alternating Current, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, BAE Systems, Bell Labs, CA, California, California Institute of Technology, carbon pollution, Central Processing Unit, cloud computing, computer network, Cornelius, CPU, Data Center, data center cooling, datacenter, DELC, Department of Energy, Direct Current, DOE, Dual Enclosure Liquid Cooling, Edison Materials Technology Center, electric grid, energy efficiency, Energy Secretary, Federspiel Controls, Hewlett-Packard, hot-spot management, Houston, IBM, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, information economy, information technology, integrated hardware and software, Ithaca, Lineage Power Corporation, Liquid Metal Thermal Interface, Lockport, Los Angeles, Manassas, Menlo Park, Mountain View, NC, networking devices, New York, North Carolina, NY, Palo Alto, Plano, Poughkeepsie, Power Assure, Power Supply Chain, Providence, Real-Time Optimal Control, real-time temperature, Recovery Act, rectifier, Research Triangle Park, Rhode Island, RI, router, RTOC, Santa Clara, SeaMicro, smart grid, Steven Chu, Telecommunications, Texas, Trustees of Columbia University, TX, VA, Very Dense Liquid Cooled Computer Platform, Virginia, Yahoo, Yorktown Heights

The Department of Energy is awarding $47 million to support the development of new technologies and knowhow aimed at improving energy efficiency in the information technology (IT) and communication technology sectors. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that 14 projects across the country will share in this award. Information technology and telecommunications are vital and rapidly growing sectors of our overall economy and will become even more central as the smart grid is deployed. As our country increasingly comes to rely on an information economy in sector after sector the underlying physical infrastructure that supports it, such as the data centers, networks, routers and so forth, is expected to continue to rapidly grow.