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An increasing number of UK businesses, large and small, are reporting their carbon emissions.
A motor insurance company that 'offsets’ its customers' carbon emissions by planting trees has posted a 19-fold increase in profits after only three years in business.
Social housing giant and low carbon retrofit firm Connaught, was facing collapse as it called in the administrators late on Tuesday.
Businesses that have not yet registered for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) will not be fined if they get in touch with the scheme’s enforcer before the September 30 deadline.
Despite the threat of increased legislation, most of the UK’s largest companies do not currently measure their carbon footprint, a survey has found.
BP has scaled down its oil spill clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico, while vowing to continue its efforts at the level needed until the environment is made safe.
BP says it has set aside $32.2 billion (£20.8 billion) to cover the costs linked to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP plans to sell assets worth $30bn (€23bn, £19bn) to meet the costs of its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and has confirmed the departure of its chief executive Tony Hayward.
BP investors paused for breath on Wednesday ahead of a fresh attempt to stop the burst Macondo well from spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
The threat from the decline in biodiversity should be viewed as larger and more urgent to business than climate change.
Sainsbury’s will plant two million trees in the UK over the next five years as part of a new environmental strategy it unveiled today as it launched its 2010 corporate responsibility (CR) report.
Shareholders in BP balked on Monday at reports the energy giant would seek a strategic investor to ward off takeover bids while the company's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico spread.
Gulf coast beaches, normally packed on Independence Day, were quiet on Sunday as workers cleaned up tar balls from BP's leaking oil well while the company was reported to be taking steps to ward off potential takeover bids.
Fewer than 10 per cent of companies eligible for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) have so far registered for the project, according to latest official figures.
Elon Musk, the chief executive and major investor behind Tesla Motors Inc, has sometimes taunted U.S. automakers, painting his fledgling company as everything Detroit would like to be if it could start over: cooler, greener and ensconced in a much better neighborhood.