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Google Gets Bad Score from Climate Counts

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, July 5, 2007
16 years ago2,639 views

<<You can use the Climate Counts Company Scorecard to see how serious companies are about stopping climate change – and how they compare to their sector competitors. The annually updated scorecard reflects the self-reported efforts of companies to address climate change – or avoid it altogether.

The higher the score, the greater the company's commitment to fighting global warming.>>

Yahoo! 36
Microsoft 31
Google 17
eBay 02
Amazon.com 00

<< Climate Counts has found no public information to indicate that Google has started to measure the impact it has on global warming (i.e. its greenhouse gas emissions or climate footprint).>>

http://www.climatecounts.org/scorecardlist.php?c=18

Interesting.

http://www.google.com/corporate/green/energy/
http://www.google.com/corporate/solarpanels/home

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

What!?!? Somebody has it in for Google. Google seem to be ranked at the bottom of lists quite a lot. Take the privacy group thing. I feel much safer with Google then Yahoo! or AOL? Who leaked search records or gave info on a user to the Chinese government? Not Google.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Weird. Is that another one like that infamous "Google has the worst privacy" report?

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

(Oops, we posted the same time :))

Clement Donzel [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Very interesting. But I don't know that much regarding this company? (Not event 600 results in Google). But it seems a pretty serious one. Thoughts?

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

> (Oops, we posted the same time :))

Lol

Actual report details are a bit wrong to say the least. I hope Google actually give these people a call to clarify a few things. Maybe they should teach them how to use a search engine while they're at it.
> http://www.climatecounts.org/scorecompany.php?co=24

"Review: 0/22 points. Climate Counts has found no public information to indicate that Google has started to measure the impact it has on global warming (i.e. its greenhouse gas emissions or climate footprint)."

Google has the largest solar panel installation by one company in the US and they've made no attempt to hide it.

Clement Donzel [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Climate counts parent's company: Danone (The french group who just sold Lu to kraft!).

More info on the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/business/19green.html?ex=1183694400&en=66d4984b8fb69139&ei=5070

Clement Donzel [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Houps! Not Danone. Danone is the parent company of Stonyfield Farm, investor in ClimateCounts...

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