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Masdar, Etihad Airways Partner on Green Airline Initiative

April 15, 2009 - Masdar, Abu Dhabi's green energy initiative, has partnered with Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, on a new sustainability effort aimed at reducing the airline's carbon footprint ahead of new regulations under the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme. READ MORE
Fairmont Hotels Aims to Cut Carbon Emissions 20%

April 14, 2009 - Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has become the first international hotel brand to join WWF's Climate Savers program, pledging to reduce carbon emissions from its existing portfolio of hotels to 20% below 2006 levels by 2013. READ MORE
Nestle Waters Shifts to Fuel Cell-Powered Lift Trucks

April 13, 2009 - Nestle Waters North America has converted the entire fleet of lift trucks at its Dallas, Texas, bottling facility into hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in a bid to cut costs and greenhouse gas emissions. READ MORE
FedEx Test Hybrids Use 27% Less Fuel

April 13, 2009 - FedEx Express has announced early results from its hybrid-truck trial in Italy, reporting that the specially designed vehicles cut fuel consumption 26.5% and CO2 emissions by 7.5 tons compared to traditional delivery trucks. READ MORE
Mobile Phone Industry Plans 120,000 Green-Powered Base Stations

April 10, 2009 - The GSM Association, a mobile-phone industry trade group, has pledged to power 118,000 remote base stations with renewable energy within three years - nearly 60 times the 2,000 such base stations currently in operation worldwide, Reuters reports. READ MORE
The Carbon Trust Unveils Planning Tool for Climate Projects

April 9, 2009 - The Carbon Trust has published an online toolkit (including spreadsheets!) outlining four do's and don'ts for getting carbon-management projects off the ground. READ MORE
Rental Car Customers Opt for Carbon Offsets

April 8, 2009 - In the year since Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental launched a carbon offset program for customers, more than 175,000 ponied up the extra $1.25 per rental to participate. READ MORE
Video: Google Execs Talk Up New Energy Meter Software

April 7, 2009 - In a recent YouTube video, Google executives talk about their prototype product that allows users to see detailed energy use information right on their computers. (via TreeHugger) READ MORE
Empire State Building Gets Green Makeover

April 7, 2009 - A $20 million energy efficiency overhaul at the Empire State Building, one of America's most iconic skyscrapers, is expected to save $4.4 million and more than 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over the next 15 years. READ MORE
Report: Climate-Related Financial Products Doubled in 2008

April 7, 2009 - The number of climate-related financial products being offered by insurers worldwide doubled to more than 600 last year, according to a new report by the Ceres investor coalition. READ MORE

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