With climate policy paralyzed in Washington, a number of leading U.S.
corporations are going it alone, squeezing big reductions of
climate-changing emissions from their operations and supply chains, reports InsideClimate News.

And that’s not all.

“With stakeholder criticism and other pressures building, more and more
are also releasing rigorous climate data in their financial reports and
enlisting third-party firms to make sure it is accurate, clean economy reporter Maria Gallucci writes.

Why would a corporation implement pro-environment measures when it knows Congress will protect those who don’t?   

“We do it because it makes good business sense—whether it’s top of
the fold [politically] or not,” said Wayne Balta, vice president of
corporate environmental affairs and product safety at IBM.
The world’s biggest computer services provider is on track to slash
its electricity use by 20 percent by the end of this year from 2008
levels. It will also cut its energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by
16 percent from 2005 levels—four percent above its original goal.
Earlier this year, the firm won one of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency’s first-ever Climate Leadership Awards.

Balta said that key to those reductions were efficiency upgrades in
more than 360 buildings and data centers, which were achieved with the
help of 40 full-time energy management professionals. He would not say
how much the climate initiatives cost.

See who else is cutting pollution–and the role that climate change is playing on corporate thinking at: Major Corporations Quietly Reducing Emissions—and Saving Money 


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