GM Pledges to Reduce CO2 Emissions by 40 Percent

[jpak]

http://www.huliq.com/16375/gm-pledges-to-reduce-co2-emissions-by-40-percent

Today, General Motors announced its goal to reduce CO2 emissions from its North American manufacturing facilities by 40 percent by 2010, based on 2000 levels. GM is setting this target as part of its voluntary partnership in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders program.

This reduction would equal 4.5 million metric tons and equate to annual emissions from the power consumed by 432,692 U.S. households.

The EPA’s Climate Leaders initiative is a voluntary program between industry and government that works with companies to develop long-term comprehensive climate change strategies. Companies are challenged to set aggressive, corporate-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals and are required to report out and document progress on an annual basis.

“Our Climate Leaders partners are demonstrating corporate climate change leadership by embracing energy efficiency, green power, and technological innovation as sound business investments,” said EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock. “Many of the nation’s leading companies are working aggressively with EPA to lower their greenhouse gas emissions in ways that advance President Bush’s climate change strategy.”

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[unhappycamper]

1. It would sure be nice if they could do the same for their cars. n/t

[Kokonoe]

2. With 20% of workforce eliminated we are halfway there.

:sarcasm:

[JohnWxy]

3. Great news. One can only hope that this will inspire others in various industries to do something

similar.

here is some more from the article for those who didn't hit the link:



GM’s CO2 reductions can be largely attributed to numerous efforts by the company to increase energy efficiency, reduce waste, increase the use of renewable resources such as landfill gas and solar power, and optimize efficiencies across all aspects of the manufacturing process. For example, GM is the largest corporate user of landfill gas in the U.S. This effort results in significant reductions of CO2 emissions.