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2. Provide various innovative and different products to stimulate consumers’ new demands and develop blueocean market.

Growth of adjacent services to create a unique and integrated offering to deepen client relationships, expand client base, and increase share of total event spend; and Live Events.

In its first year of Phase I, EarthView produced $750 thousand in savings for its same store portfolio while also reducing its carbon footprint by 10%, water footprint by 7% and waste output by 40%.

They also want assurance that the food has been grown and harvested in a responsible and sustainable manner that respects people, animals and the environment.

A weakened economy, soft consumer spending, unfavorable foreign trade conditions and the rising cost of labor or raw materials are examples of issues that can impact the credit quality in this segment.

We also worked with our partners to educate communities along the Alaskan coastline on how they could do their part by reducing use of disposable packaging, reusing plastic containers and recycling in the home.

Catastrophe insurance risk is the exposure arising from both natural (e.g., weather, earthquakes, wildfires, pandemics) and man-made catastrophes (e.g., terrorism, cyberattacks) that create a concentration or aggregation of loss across the Company's insurance or asset portfolios.

Walmart will expand the already existing practice of Walmart Brazil of sourcing only beef that does not contribute to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest to all of our companies worldwide by the end of 2015.

However, many ASM activities are illegal and use mining methods that pose significant health, safety and environmental risks, both for the miners themselves, and for the surrounding communities.

The sector includes asset-backed exposures to ocean-going vessels.

Total well-to-tank emissions are 5,512 tonnes of CO2e.

Earth Rangers is a kids' conservation organization dedicated to educating children and families about biodiversity loss and empowering them to Bring Back the Wild™.

Sierra Leone: In 2014, Sweet Harvest Foods’ Africa Uplift project expanded workshops and visited rural villages to introduce the opportunity of beekeeping.

The local economy is also dependent to a lesser extent upon ranching and agriculture.

Our renewable energy facilities continue to provide nonemitting generation, driving compliance with Wisconsin Act 141 and Michigan Public Act 295, the states’ renewable portfolio standards, and reducing system carbon intensity.

• Kimberly-Clark will inspect its wood fiber suppliers periodically and request that its uncertified wood fiber suppliers prepare a written report annually on compliance with this policy.

Wide Range This environmental audit embraced a wide breadth of topics that included archaeology, effects of noise (on both human and wildlife populations), unexploded ordnance, wildfire, water use, energy use, emissions into the atmosphere, waste management, and socio- economic/community engagement issues.

At Sonoma-Cutrer, aerators that improve wastewater quality are run at night, as opposed to during the day, to better manage energy demand.

Pioneer Permian employees, organized by the Permian Environmental Department, volunteered at Peeps & Creeps, a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation based out of A to Z Veterinary Clinic in Midland.

Floyd, a wood quality researcher at the Weyerhaeuser Technology Center, has developed a way to look at a tree and know, while it's still wearing its bark, whether or http://webdev-wycom.weyer.com/Sustainability/OurStory/SustainabilityInActionExpanded[7/10/2013 3:56:32 PM] not its wood is ideal for the veneers used in Weyerhaeuser's Microllam® laminated veneer lumber product.

It is designed to be a globally and nationally significant precedent for boreal forest conservation and forest sector competitiveness.

Even as manufacturing volumes rise, we have been able to improve our efficiencies and thereby continue to reduce normalized emissions.

They include the transfer from equity of any gains or losses on qualifying cash flow hedges relating to purchases of raw material.

For a full report on Intel’s environmental performance and future challenges, visit: www.intel.com/go/ehs Intel’s worldwide water use has been increasing at a rate less than our production growth.

In addition, our Environment Policy (part of our UK certified ISO14001 accreditation) applies to our operational properties worldwide, guiding our approach to the management of the direct impacts of our business units, including compliance with environmental regulations, energy consumption, water use, waste disposal, environmental supply chain management and the adoption of risk management principles for all propertyrelated matters.

Since 2004, CenterPoint Energy has sponsored a tree planting at a school served by the company.

Examples include the potential impact of weather-related events, access to credit, effect of foreign currency exchange rate movements, and volatility in purchased feedstock and energy costs.

Energy related projects undertaken included: upgrading in energy monitoring systems in head office locations; the addition of metering and monitoring systems for all catering facilities of significant size; development of an energy utility database and an upgrade of lighting control systems in Bankcentre.

We are reforesting with native trees that will reestablish the endemic flora—tropical rain forests—that ought to be found on the island.

Over half of our new development projects are either studying or implementing alternative and renewable energy installations, including solar photovoltaics, vertical axis wind turbines, and/or cogeneration systems.

en10 We reused 0.01% of the water we used during 2011, a total of 394,021 gallons (1,492 m3).

Though the Group’s day-to-day operational activities have a relatively limited impact on the environment, we do recognise that the more significant impact occurs indirectly through the nature and operations of the companies that we choose to support with human and financial capital.

In 2013, we made progress toward achieving our global energy efficiency objectives at our different sites: We completed energy efficiency assessments at our Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia operations, identifying more than 80 opportunities to improve energy efficiency.

Findings from the research will help inform industry practices safeguarding people, animals and the environment.

So that will continue to be kind of a driving -- a driver for the Q2 revenue.

This will include a series of planned activities and targets for 5 key areas of decarbonization, air quality, waste and water and climate change adaptation.

Natural gas sales margin was $116.9 million in 2018, an increase of $7.2 million compared to 2017.

• Involvement in forums that debate on, and propose, solutions to stop deforestation in Brazil.

In 2019 and 2020, we issued guidance with accompanying training to assist our managers and operators to successfully benchmark their buildings and to engage our tenants to improve energy and water efficiency as well as increase their recycling diversion rates.

The plant is expected to improve regional water quality, reduce waterborne illnesses and enhance the value of local agricultural products while providing water for an economically important project for the region.

The characteristics of properties securing the Company’s commercial real estate portfolio are diverse, but with geographic location almost entirely in the Company’s market area.

Total and normalized energy use increased slightly in 2004 due to the addition of new facilities.

It is worth noting that weak oil market conditions in 2016 tempered oil demand, which resulted in http://hess.com/s/cdpclimatechange 42 lower-than-anticipated production and associated GHG emissions.

Additionally, we developed Responsible Palm Oil Sourcing Criteria, which set forth our expectations for suppliers of palm oil derivatives or palm ker-nel oil derivatives.

In the United States, an assortment of blizzards, high winds, drought, wildfi res, tornadoes, hail, fl ooding and even a hurricane infl icted damage from the Southwest through the Midwest and the Southeast to all along the East Coast.

FedEx 2013 Global Citizenship Report GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU CONNECT PEOPLE AND POSSIBILITIES.

When appropriate, alternate pay can involve expenditures made for pollution prevention, remediation programs, public awareness, education activities, or wetland conservation activities.

Corporate Responsibility 2012 Report Corporate Responsibility 2013 Report At State Street, we know that being a responsible corporate citizen is essential to the success of our business — and our strategy to create value for our clients, employees, shareholders and communities.

Pursuing renewable (wind, solar or biomass) power plant technologies where feasible.

Reducing the emissions resulting from operating our aircraft is a top environmental priority.

Favorable development on prior year catastrophe reserves in 2020 was due to recognizing a $29 before tax subrogation benefit from a settlement with PG&E over certain of the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires and a reduction in estimated catastrophe losses from a number of wind and hail events that occurred in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Product Ecology We work to reduce the environmental footprint of our products from design through disposal, which includes evaluating the environmental impact of the materials used in our processes and working with others on responsible management of electronic waste (e-waste).

Over the next three years, we will be transforming our China business to further streamline our portfolio, focus on the fast-growing e-commerce channel and revise our manufacturing footprint to improve efficiencies.

PEFC is an umbrella organization that evaluates and recognizes national forest certifications demonstrating compliance with PEFC principles.

Biofuels GE recognizes the benefits and availability of alternative fuels.

These efforts combined with the current rate environment resulted in an increase in average transaction deposits of 27.4% when compared to December 31, 2008.

Exposures relating to ocean-going vessels are not included as they cannot be meaningfully assigned to specific countries from a country risk perspective.

The decrease is primarily due to decreased distribution and delivery costs resulting from efficiencies such as increased utilization of existing shipping capacity and strategic product positioning to reduce distribution expense.

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INTENSIVELY MANAGED FORESTS PRODUCE MORE WOOD IN LESS AREA Intensive management on our lands allows other lands to be less intensively managed and together provide the wood fiber and other forest resources society needs.

Current industry projections for the next 15 to 20 years do not indicate a significant increase in timber values.

Brookfi eld Asset Management | 2006 Annual Report 33 Eastern North America In early 2006, we established the Acadian Timber Fund, a publicly listed income fund that acquired the 311,000 acres of private timberlands previously owned by us as well as a further 765,000 acres held by Fraser Papers.

Standards for rating a building's "greenness" have been established by several organizations, using point systems to rate energy, water use, materials, design and more.

Since 2015 all electricity that we have purchased in the UK is from 100% renewable sources.

Choose only responsibly sourced and certified paper: We label all HP FSC-certified paper products to inform customers and enable informed purchase decisions.

As a result, we identified opportunities to save more than $300,000 in costs by real- izing better water and energy efficiency.

We substantially completed a number of projects in 2014 across ASUS and specifically at the Fort Bragg military base, including: (i) a $58 million water and wastewater pipeline replacement project; (ii) a backflow preventer and meter project totaling $23 million and (iii) a $16.5 million water and wastewater infrastructure project required to serve a new growth area of Fort Bragg.

The site is intended to provide information on the effect of biomass removal, compaction and fertilization on soil, water and wildlife.

Griffin targets properties that are in close proximity to transportation infrastructure (highways, airports, railways and sea ports) and can accommodate single and multiple tenants in flexible layouts.

Employees at our Creekbank facility in Canada took part in a “creek clean­ up” on Earth Day.

/ Meijer is taken from different water sources near the production facilities.

Reducing the amount of water we use by becoming more water-efficient.

E nv ir on m en ta l a nd S oc ia l R is k M an ag em en t C on ti nu ed “ Citi’s Sustainable Forestry Policy addresses critical issues related to lending practices in the forestry sector—illegal logging, deforestation and relations with indigenous communities.

Our reporting excludes renewable energy provided by default in the power grid.

The residential construction industry experiences labor and raw material shortages from time to time, including shortages in qualified tradespeople, and supplies of insulation, drywall, cement, steel and lumber.

This balance is reflected in widely-accepted science acknowledging that the combustion of wood biomass for energy in countries with increasing forest inventories (such as the United States, for example) does not increase atmospheric carbon.

Development costs incurred to develop new mineral reserves, to expand the capacity of a quarry or mine, or to develop quarry or mine areas substantially in advance of current production are capitalized once proven and probable reserves exist and can be economically produced.

This will enable us to retain ownership of the renewable energy credits of projects we invest in.

USING OUR NETWORK TO ESTABLISH HABITAT CORRIDORS Union Pacific’s vast rail network provides an opportunity to establish ecologically significant habitat corridors across wide areas of the central and western United States.

And to help prevent plastic, foam and other nonmetal materials, known as “automotive shredder residue” (ASR), from ending up in landfill, we support the development and implementation of post-shredder-residue treatment technologies, which make the actual recycling of ELVs more economically and ecologically viable.

pApEr AND pACKAgINg Our membership in the World Wildlife Fund’s North America Forest and Trade Network has helped us understand both the threats to our forests and the ways to protect them.

We believe our focus on helping customers identify sustainable solutions and designs is the most effective way we can meet our corporate citizenship obligations.

That’s why UPS was one of the first companies in the transportation and logistics sector to report Scope 3 emissions on a global basis, and why we adopted the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting & Reporting Standard as soon as it was available.

Projects include renewable energies, reforestation and fuel switching and are certified under the sector's most recognized international standards, like the Gold Standard, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) or the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

In Kenya, with help from the ECF, lawyers monitor courtrooms with innovative mobile applications to ensure ivory poachers are effectively prosecuted and wildlife trafficking is treated as the serious crime that it is.

From 2000 through 2016, we will have invested an estimated $8.5 billion to install environmental controls on our plants which have significantly reduced sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury emissions.

Contractors were hoisted by bucket trucks and secured the nest with nylon straps before cutting through the tree trunk beneath it.

Sustainable product design Designing products for reduced environmental impacts across the life cycle (e.g., energy efficiency, materials reduction, reduced substances of concern, renewable materials, design for recyclability, longevity, etc.).

It is important for us as stewards of our environment, as stewards of the health of our employees and as stewards of the health of the communities that we operate in, as well as those that use our products, that we are responsible for all those areas across our products.

This type of measurement tells us—and the world—how well we are accomplishing our ultimate mission of holding back emissions growth for the global economy and the planet—even if our own absolute emissions should rise.

For generations, public lands have been protected in national parks and conservation areas based on their own intrinsic value.

This report was produced using the pureprint® environmental print technology, a guaranteed, low carbon, low waste, independently audited process that reduces the environmental impact of the printing process.

With our competency in gearboxes and drivetrains and blades, we felt that, that was a higher margin business, albeit a little more seasonal.

De si gn : C it ig ro up G ra ph ic C om m un ic at io ns *partially reported This Report has been printed on paper produced from raw materials that are independently certified by the SmartWood program of the Rainforest Alliance, to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards.

General Mills has begun work with the World Wildlife Fund on sustainable sugarcane in order to advance industrywide initiatives for improving production methods and conserving natural resources.

In the event Seller, because of events beyond its control at its Lake City plant other than Force Majeur situations as defined in section 10, for which performance is excused, has a shortage of Chip and is unable to meet deliveries as ordered, Seller will obtain, at no cost to Buyer, from its other plants or other sources additional Chip of similar quality in order to meet orders.

Forests are vital to humanity and our planet— providing clean air and water; mitigating climate change; reducing the impacts of floods; providing habitats for plants, animals and birds; and directly supporting 1.6 billion people who depend on forest ecosystems for food, fresh water, clothing, medicine and shelter.

Our engagement with indigenous communities in those locations is consistent with the principles of the International Labour Organization Convention 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

In the first two transactions under Scaling Enterprise, the partners have committed $5 million in financing to InI Farms to help smallholder banana and pomegranate farmers in India access export markets and increase incomes by up to 20%, as well as $5 million in financing to d.light to expand access to off-grid solar energy in Kenya.

Cummins Brazil worked with a company that turns the used oil into bio-diesel and soap.