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The Business Behind Low-Carbon Solutions
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From Shop Floor to Top Floor: Best Business Practices in Energy Efficiency
In the last decade, rising and volatile energy prices coupled with increasing concern about climate change and growing support for action on energy and environmental issues has driven a surge of corporate environmental commitments. Energy efficiency has emerged as a …
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A Survey of Corporate Energy Efficiency Strategies
This paper summarizes the results of a 2009 survey of corporate energy efficiency strategies, conducted by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Forty-eight companies, ranging in size from $8 billion to $99 billion in revenues, completed the survey. Key …
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Towards a Climate-Friendly Built Environment
Buildings in the United States – homes, offices, and industrial facilities – account for over 40 percent of our nation’s carbon dioxide emissions. Most of these emissions come from the combustion of fossil fuels to provide heating, cooling, and lighting …
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Appliances and Global Climate Change: Increasing Consumer Participation in Reducing Greenhouse Gases
It makes a big difference which home appliances U.S. consumers buy. Residential electricity consumption — much of it from major home appliances — accounts for about one fifth of U.S. energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. New energy-efficient appliance models that use …