SavethePacificIslands

Everyone must take responsibility for climate change and this can be particularly important in large international companies. These companies have the power and capability to both have major impact in the work they do and also by being trend setters and the role model of other companies. Here are two examples.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is the world’s largest professional services firm. They have over 140,000 employees working in 150 countries. PwC recently announced their corporate responsibilities commitments at the inaugural ServiceNation Summit. They were the main sponsor of the United Nations’ World Environment Day in 2008 and was recently appointed global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project. The project is the world’s largest investor collaboration on climate change, representing 385 institutional investors and 57 trillion US Dollars in assets. PwC are also working on a smaller front and have encouraged behavioral adjustments in employees in order to cut down on their resource use. Simple things like printing on both sides of paper to the use of more video conferencing instead of travel.

PwC Corporate Responsibility Site

BMW topped the sustainability list released by the 2008 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes. However this sustainability is only on their manufacturing process, BMW produced cars may not be quite so green! The Mini gets a very respectable 29 mpg but the M6 is a not-so-green 13 miles to the gallon. At least this is a good start…

http://www.sustainability-indexes.com/