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Post by coolplanet on Sept 12, 2013 13:20:52 GMT -5
These Gigantic Companies Have The World’s Worst Carbon EmissionsBy Annie-Rose Strasser on September 12, 2013 at 10:57 am thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/12/2609611/companies-emissions-revenue/Just fifty companies are responsible for producing 73 percent of the total carbon emitted by the largest 500 corporations on the planet, according to a new report released Wednesday. Those companies have done little to reduce their carbon footprints, and have actually seen their carbon emissions rise over the last four years. Released by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the report calculates the carbon emissions of various corporations by industry: Wal Mart emits the most carbon for unit of revenue in the ‘consumer staples’ industry, Carnival in the ‘consumer discretionary’ industry, Exxon-Mobil in the energy industry, Bank of America in ‘financial,’ Bayer in ‘healthcare,’ Samsung in ‘information technology,’ Verizon in the ‘telecommunications.’ The report also indicates that energy companies hold the largest share of the blame for a bleak sustainability outlook. They perform below average on three different measures of sustainability practices: Emissions performance, strategy, and what the authors call “verification / stakeholder engagement.” (Utility companies, by comparison, perform above average on every one of these measures.) The report adds that energy companies are also doing the least to change their carbon emissions practices Continued at link
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