The Climate Pledge: Achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2040

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Sep 29, 2020 5:11:29 PM

Are You Doing Your Part? We Can Help.

Earlier this summer, we learned of The Climate Pledge after reading this blog from Amazon discussing the internet giant’s intent to reach net zero carbon by 2040, a full decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. An ambitious goal for sure, but after we stopped to consider how swiftly the company rose from being an online bookstore to the megastore and distribution center it is today, we realized that the timeframe and goal may not be too lofty of a feat after all.

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Topics: Energy Efficiency, Utilities, Education, News and Events, Carbon Accounting, Blog Topics, Behavior Change

“Full Cost” Sustainability Accounting – The Key to Growth for Greener Products?

Posted by proadmin on Apr 15, 2010 5:50:54 AM

screen-shot-2013-03-06-at-9-35-27-amThis morning Jeffrey Hollender, the Chairman of Seventh Generation, gave the keynote for our Green Enterprise 2010 Seminar.

One powerful concept he described was “full cost” sustainability accounting whereby companies are required to include their external environmental costs (ie. things like pollution or resource consumption) into their corporate earnings.

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Topics: green products, Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Green product design, Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), Green Enterprise 2010, Carbon Accounting, Wal-Mart Sustainability Index

Groom Energy’s April 15th Green Enterprise 2010 seminar

Posted by proadmin on Mar 11, 2010 1:04:04 PM

screen-shot-2010-09-28-at-2-29-02-pmWe’ve excited to announce our next Groom Energy seminar, entitled Green Enterprise 2010, which will be held April 15th at the Embassy Suites Hotel near Boston’s Logan Airport.

As with our previous seminars our target audience remains corporate energy and sustainability managers who wish to hear and discuss best practices, case study based observations.

Last year our first two seminars had a direct focus on the emerging market for Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), a market we had identified and about which we published research.  Our February 25th Boston ECA event featured Mindy Lubber from Ceres who likened climate impact to an off balance sheet risk which should be disclosed by public companies.  Our follow-on May 14th San Francisco ECA event was highlighted by a practical case study panel with presentations from Applied Materials, HP, Intuit and Sony.

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Topics: sustainability manager, Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), Green Enterprise 2010, Carbon Accounting, Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, Wal-Mart Supplier Workshop, greening the supply chain

The ECA Market grew up quickly

Posted by proadmin on Jan 19, 2010 3:36:34 AM

picture-2Today Groom Energy published our newly updated ECA research report, 2010 Enterprise Carbon Accounting, which also included our selections for the market’s 2010 ECA Emerging Leaders.

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Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), EPA Climate Leaders, EPA's Climate Leaders, Carbon Accounting, ECA Emerging Leaders, ECA, GHG accounting

What’s your time horizon for GHG reductions?

Posted by proadmin on Oct 30, 2009 12:10:10 PM

On Thursday I participated on a panel at the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Conference in Burlington, VT.  Our panel hosted a discussion about how universities and colleges (650+ of whom have signed the  Presidential Climate Commitment (PCC)) should consider financing their efforts to become carbon neutral.

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Topics: EPA Climate Leaders, EPA's Climate Leaders, Carbon Accounting, carbon neutral, Presidential Climate Commitment, performance contract, Cap N Trade, PCC

The Wal-Mart effect – a Sustainability Index for every industry?

Posted by proadmin on Oct 11, 2009 10:08:22 AM

screen-shot-2010-09-28-at-3-55-57-pmSo first off apologies that I’ve been remiss in updating our blog the last few months – it’s Columbus Day weekend and I’m finally catching up….

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Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Carbon Accounting, sustainability, Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, Cap N Trade, greening the supply chain

If Cap n Trade made electricity more expensive, would our behavior change?

Posted by proadmin on Aug 23, 2009 2:20:55 PM

Not long ago we were all adjusting to an extraordinary increase in the price of a gallon of gas.   As prices accelerated economists speculated on how devastating it could be to our economy if it continued…

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Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, energy prices, carbon tax, Carbon Accounting, cap and trade, kWh prices, Cap N Trade

Enterprise Carbon Accounting seminar in San Francisco

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on May 15, 2009 9:34:45 AM

Yesterday we co-hosted our Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) seminar at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt, bringing our successful Feb 25th Boston event to the Left Coast, this time with our new partner GreentechMedia.   As he had done for Boston event, Paul Baier did another great job at putting together a set of speakers and topics to be discussed.

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Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, WRI, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant pro, Carbon Accounting, Copenhagen, Carbon Disclosure Project, GHG reporting, CDP, Department of Energy, World Resource Institute, GHG accounting