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Back in January, 62 companies from multiple sectors and 17 countries started road testing two new GHG Protocol standards developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

In June, the companies submitted written feedback on their usability along with final GHG inventory reports, and a summary of the feedback is now posted on the GHG Protocol website.

The two new GHG Protocol standards –the Product Lifecycle Accounting and Reporting Standard and the Scope 3 (Corporate Value Chain) Accounting and Reporting Standard – provide methods to account for emissions associated with individual products across their life-cycles and of corporations across their value chains.

Overall, both new standards received high marks from the companies that road tested them. According to the WRI, most agree that the standards help with: (more…)

PepsiCo has released its 2009 Corporate Citizenship Report, and it contains dozens of ambitious global goals –47, in all –that will guide the company over the coming decade. These global goals focus on nutrition, environmental sustainability, and workplace practices and include specific, industry-leading commitments, such as reducing sugar, sodium and fat across the company’s food and beverage portfolio while increasing whole grains, fruits and vegetables.

In addition, the report, “Performance with Purpose: Investing in Sustainable Growth,” details PepsiCo’s environmental performance in 2009. For example, last year PepsiCo: (more…)

What’s the most sustainable beverage wildly available to Americans today?

According to Greenopia.com, it’s Honest Tea of Bethesda, MD.

In fact, Honest Tea was the only mass-distributed, retail beverage to earn the coveted Greenopia 4-Leaf Rating in the website’s latest green beverage ratings research project.   Steaz and Santa Cruz Organic Sodas rounded out the top three. (more…)

With a nod to World Water Day yesterday, PepsiCo has announced a new set of commitments aimed at providing access to safe water to three million people in developing countries by 2015. In addition, the company says it is will continue to promote greater water-use efficiency across its operations and to source water in ways that respect communities and ecosystems.

In 2007, PepsiCo set a global goal to reduce water consumption by 20 percent per unit of production by 2015. To date, the company has achieved a more than 15 percent improvement in water use efficiency as compared to the company’s 2006 baseline. PepsiCo has also: (more…)

PepsiCo wants to reduce the carbon footprint of Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice.

A year ago, the company partnered with the Carbon Trust to conduct a lifecycle analysis of its orange juice and discovered that the largest single source of carbon emissions  –approximately 35 percent — was fertilizer use and application for the growing process.

So now, Tropicana, in tandem with one of its long-time growers, SMR Farms in Bradenton, Fla., is launching a groundbreaking pilot program to determine whether using innovative, alternative fertilizers could significantly reduce the carbon footprint associated with the agricultural production of oranges. If successful, this change could reduce the total carbon footprint of Tropicana Pure Premium by as much as 15 percent.

Two lower-carbon fertilizers will be tested. (more…)