WRI – Choose your emission pathway

The World Resources Institute took the recent IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) to illustrate possible emissions pathways in an infografic Choose Your Future: 4 Possible Emissions Pathways from World Resources Institute (WRI) Learn more about the WRI Find the Fifth IPCC Assemsment Report here.

Scope 2 Accounting – treatment of green power

An increasing number of companies tend to purchase or even generate green power. Today the focus is mainly on green electricity out of renewable sources or considered as low-carbon or „carbon free“ electricity. Despite some clear physical basic conditions it is fact that there are market instruments and technologies out there. These instruments should make…

Article: Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math

Read this interesting article by Bill McKibben in the Rolling Stone Magazine. McKibben investigates Climate Changes scenarios and corresponding Carbon Footprints with three numbers: – 2° Celsius (maximum temperature rise humans can cope) – 565 Gigatons (of CO2 that humans can pur in the atmosphere to stay below 2°) – 2795 Gigatons (of CO2 that…

Avnet Celebrates Earth Day 2012

DFGE calculates Avnet’s Carbon Footprint for the 3rd time. Here are the results: Ray Sadowski, Avnet’s CFO, in this Earth Day 2012 message, overviews the progress Avnet is making on its Green initiatives. Learn how Avnet improved the Carbon Footprint calculated by the DFGE. Learn more about Avnet http://www.avnet.com Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) is one of…