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This report highlights the benefits and downsides of green bonds, a type of debt used to fund projects yielding environmental benefits, and offers an overview of recent issuances from U.S. corporations.

This case study, presented by ECM, showcases a multisite HVAC rejuvenation process done across a portfolio of CBRE commercial real estate properties in five U.S. states, Canada and India.

Lockheed Martin says it completed more than 60 total energy-efficiency and carbon reduction projects in 2016 including HVAC, lighting, building control systems, building envelope, renewable energy projects and retro-commissioning.

The number of Fortune 500 that are making public goals around reducing greenhouse gas emissions, using renewable energy and curbing their overall energy use accelerated in 2016, Ceres, WWF and other groups revealed in a new report.

The addition of three new renewable energy projects in the U.S. in 2016 has helped global cosmetics company L'Oreal exceed its corporate target of a 60% reduction in CO2 emissions four years ahead of schedule while increasing its production by 29%.

This column, presented by Edison Energy, explores a significant risk that could be hiding in plain sight within corporate energy portfolios.

There is no shortage of criticism of President Donald Trump's proposed plan to dump the U.S. EPA's Energy Star program, but CNN may have made the strongest case against it yet.

This case study, presented by ECM, offers an overview of how the team helped Life Technologies (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) achieve its corporate mandate to improve energy conservation efforts across its global footprint.

This implementation model, created by the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings Initiative, details an analysis conducted by Best Buy across its stores to understand the load's current energy use that helped identify $3 million in energy savings opportunities.

Shopping center owner, operator and developer Regency Centers Corp. has reduced its same-store energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by more than 20% in five years, besting its reduction target date of 2021.