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The Growth of Renewable Energy in the Mainstream Media
The beginning and end of the year are the best times to work in media because it forces us to look back and summarize what happened. It’s less about chasing stories and more about shaping an honest narrative that readers can identify with and understand. Over the past month, every publication devoted to clean energy [...]
In Focus: Integrated Sustainability Reporting
Corporate transparency is moving towards an integrated report in which financial and non-financial performance are tied together and articulated in a single document. Although as yet there is no formal standard as to what constitutes an integrated report, it is becoming clear that the sustainability reporting benefits a company. Research shows that financial markets reward [...]
Reporting from the IEEE Energy Show in Boston
As I mentioned, I’m back in Boston for a couple days, attending the IEEEEnergy Innovations show, and meeting a few industry colleagues whohappen to be in the this part of the world. In a nutshell, the showitself has less relevance to our world than I hoped it might. Thebreakout sessions are extremely technical – as [...]
G3 Guidelines and GRI Sustainability Reporting
The G3 Guidelines are the cornerstone of theGRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. They are used as the basis of an organization’s annual reporting. The Guidelinesoutline core content for reporting and are relevant to allorganizations regardless of size, sector, or location. They are thefoundation upon which all other GRI reporting guidance is based. The G3Guidelines outline a [...]
Sustainable Business Methods, Strategy, Management and Reporting
There are at least four critical areas forbusinesses seeking to enhance their sustainability, including, methods,strategy, management, and reporting. To address the specializedrequirements of sustainability, companies are employing new businessmethods. Specifically, companies are using habitual practices andsystematic processes to achieve accuracy and efficiency, often in anordered sequence of fixed steps. Sustainable methods includebusiness-case analysis, trend spotting, [...]
Renesola: Another Chinese Solar Reporting Good News $SOL
ReneSola(SOL) reported strong results this morning, beating Wall St estimates and guidinghigher. The company reported an EPS of .14/share vs the analystestimate of .09/share on revenues of $206 million (vs the estimate of$189 million). Most of the China solar companies have been reportingrecord shipments and Renesola is doing the same reporting a record242MW. The company [...]
A New Initiative Toward Carbon Disclosure in Southern China
A guest post by Lucia Green-Weiskel (pictured right) whodescribes a groundbreaking initiative in Guangdong to set up agreenhouse gas registry. Forthe last 20 years there has been a global effort to quantify and moreaccurately understand greenhouse gas emissions. China and the UnitedStates – which together are responsible for 40 percent of the world’semissions – have [...]