Climate Savers Show How to Grow Businesses While Cutting GHGs

clipped from www.wbcsd.org GreenBiz.com, 27 March 2009 - Twenty-one of some the world's best known companies intend to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a collective 50 million tons by 2010. Their names include Sony, HP, Polaroid, Coca-Cola. Tetra Pak, Nike and JohnsonDiversey, among others. They are members of the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program, and they paid a visit to Washington, D.C. Friday to showcase their efforts and deliver a message to lawmakers: Companies can reduce emissions without sacrificing growth or the bottom line. Energy efficiency efforts at Johnson and Johnson over the last decade, for example, have generated roughly $50 million in annualized savings; its emissions reduction initiatives produce an 17 percent average internal rate of return. Its Climate Savers commitment involves a 7 percent emissions reduction below 1990 levels by 2010.