Key GHG emission reduction strategies of climate leader companies

The risk of global warming and resulting climate change is known. Momentum is building within society to take greater action in response to climate change and implement specific actions to reduce absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the United States (cities, states and the federal government) regulatory pressure is mounting and legislative activities increasing to enact GHG emission reduction legislation. In response to this global ecological and societal challenge, many organizations are quickly stepping up their activities to develop and deploy more aggressive GHG reduction strategies. An important element for institutions to successfully meet the climate change challenge will be to identify effective strategies and corresponding initiatives that lead to cost effective reductions in GHG emissions. This paper reviews an approach to identify and rank climate leader companies in one industrial group based upon their success to reduce absolute GHG emissions. Second, the paper focuses on key emission reduction strategies used by the defined ldquoclimate leaderrdquo companies and provides examples of the results achieved over the research period.