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Business Council for Sustainable Energy - The Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) is a coalition of companies and trade associations from the energy efficiency, natural gas and renewable energy sectors, and also includes independent electric power producers, investor-owned utilities, public power, commercial end-users and project developers and service providers for environmental markets. Founded in 1992, the Council advocates for policies at state, national and international levels that increase the use of commercially-available clean energy technologies, products and services. The coalition’s diverse business membership is united around the revitalization of our economy and creation of a secure and sustainable energy future for America.

Climate Counts - Climate Counts is a non-profit campaign that scores companies annually on the basis of their voluntary action to reverse climate change. The Climate Counts Company Scorecard helps people vote with their dollars by making climate-conscious purchasing and investing choices that put pressure on the world's most well-known companies to take the issue of climate change seriously. Launched with support from organics pioneer Stonyfield Farm, Climate Counts believes everyday consumers can be the most important activists in the fight against global warming. Climate Counts has currently evaluated nearly 150 companies in sixteen major consumer sectors. Climate Counts' work has appeared in many of the world's leading media outlets, among them the New York Times, National Public Radio, The Economist, BBC World Service, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, and the Harvard Business Review.

Corporate Responsibility Officers Association - CROA members transform ideas into action, advancing corporate responsibility (CR), the profession, and their careers. The CROA works to empower the individual -- corporate responsibility practitioner, chief executive, senior executive and individual employee -- to enhance the role of companies in society and the natural environment. CROA members work to fulfill the Association’s mission by promoting the practice and profession of corporate responsibility in service of good business.  CROA welcomes corporate practitioners, providers of products and services, academics, governments, and non-profits as equal participants. Learn more at www.commitforum.com and at www.croassociation.org.

Florida Climate Institute - The Florida Climate Institute (FCI), founded by the University of Florida and the Florida State University, brings together excellence in multi-disciplinary research and technology to achieve a better understanding of climate variability and change. Integrated research, teaching, and outreach programs and scientifically sound decision support systems are developed to improve management practices and reduce climate risks to communities, the economy and natural resources.

International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) - The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a nonprofit business organization created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions. Our membership includes leading international companies from across the carbon trading cycle. IETA members seek to develop an emissions trading regime that results in real and verifiable greenhouse gas emission reductions, while balancing economic efficiency with environmental integrity and social equity. IETA’s flagship North American event for 2012, Carbon Forum North America, will be held on October 1-2 in Washington, DC. Learn more about IETA’s activities and CFNA on our website, www.ieta.org.

WWF Climate Savers - WWF is the world’s largest conservation organization and has effectively mobilized more than two dozen companies to take aggressive measures to scale up climate protection efforts as participants in its Climate Savers program.  Since 1999, leading corporations have partnered with WWF to establish ambitious targets to voluntarily reduce their GHG emissions. To be included, companies in the program agree to reduce their CO2 emissions in accordance with an individual reduction target defined by WWF, the company and independent technical experts. During the past decade, WWF's Climate Savers partners have reduced emissions by an estimated 100 million tons, the equivalent of taking some 22 million cars off the road.  Visit www.worldwildlife.org/climate/business.html to learn more.

Climate Change Business Journal - Climate Change Business Journal™ (CCBJ) is a business newsletter designed to provide a strategic overview of the Climate Change Industry. CCBJ covers emerging opportunities and trends in the business of generating low-carbon energy & power, mitigating & managing climate change and leading the transition to a new energy future.  CCBJ is primarily devoted to strategic analysis of markets and companies in renewable and low-carbon energy; energy efficiency and conservation; distributed energy; green building development, design and materials; alternative fuels and vehicles; consulting & engineering; carbon offsets, credits and emissions trading; and climate-change analysis and adaptation.  Climate Change Business Journal™ is published by Environmental Business International Inc., an independent, San Diego-based company with the perspective of more than 20 years of analysis in emerging, socially progressive markets.
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