{"id":6756,"date":"2012-06-18T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2012-06-18T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T14:23:25","slug":"corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/06\/18\/corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporations pledge sustainability at Rio+20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2012-06-corporations-pledge-sustainability-rio20.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6759\" title=\"Corporations pledge sustainability at Rio+20\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/120618_rio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>People observe the &#8220;Burned Tree Park&#8221; exhibition at the People\u00c2\u00b4s Summit  in Flamengo park in the framework of the Rio+20 United Nations  Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Microsoft and other firms attending the Rio+20 business forum are  falling over each other to prove their corporate responsibility  credentials, but critics remain skeptical about their commitments.\u00c2\u00a0 About 1,000 business chiefs from around the world are attending a  four-day Corporate Sustainability Forum, organized by the Global  Compact. The Compact, a UN initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to  respect human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption principles,  has 7,000 corporate participants in 135 countries. Scores have already responded to a call to do the right thing and  commit to actions and partnerships that advance progress along the  forum&#8217;s six core themes. These are energy and climate, water and ecosystems, agriculture and  food, social development, urbanization and cities, economy and  financing. Sunday, US technology titan Microsoft announced plans to achieve net zero emissions for its data centers, sofware development centers, software development  labs, offices and employee air travel by boosting energy efficiency and  buying renewable energy. &#8220;We said we would be carbon neutral starting July 1,&#8221; Rob Bernard,  Microsoft&#8217;s chief environmentalist strategist, told a press conference. This would be achieved in part through offset, meaning balancing a  measured amount of carbon released with an equivalent amount  sequestered, or buying enough carbon credits to make up the difference. <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2012-06-corporations-pledge-sustainability-rio20.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Brazil |  Company: Microsoft, ArcelorMittal, Netafim, Dupont, Eskom, US Duke Energy | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2012-06-corporations-pledge-sustainability-rio20.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People observe the &#8220;Burned Tree Park&#8221; exhibition at the People\u00c2\u00b4s Summit in Flamengo park in the framework of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Microsoft and other firms attending the Rio+20 business forum are falling over each other to prove their corporate responsibility credentials, but critics remain skeptical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[484,108,709,22,708,710],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arcelormittal","tag-dupont","tag-eskom","tag-microsoft","tag-netafim","tag-us-duke-energy","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}