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Climate Counts is a non-profit organisation, funded by organics yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm and launched in collaboration with Clean Air-Cool Planet. With a mission to get consumers considering how businesses are affecting the everyday, they recently released their rankings of companies who have reduced emissions and attempt to attack climate change over the past year.
Nike scored 82/100. Other top scorers: Google, Hewlett-Packard, Anheuser-Busch and Levi Strauss.
Five companies scored one or zero points: Jones Apparel Group, Burger King, Darden Restaurants (owns Red Lobster and Olive Garden), Yum! Brands (parent to Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC) and Wendys.
Cimate Counts is offering a wallet size version of the guide for free for all consumers who want to be reminding on a daily basis which of the current businesses out there are jeopardising the state of the environment. Checking on a company by text is also an available service: text ‘cc (company name)’ to 30644 and you an receive the score for that company as long as they were considered in Climate Counts’ 2008 Scorecard.
“Business is being pushed by consumers to do its part to solve the climate crisis,” says Gary Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farm’s CEO and chair of Climate Counts. “The Scorecard allows consumers to make good climate decisions in their everyday purchases, and it’s having an impact.”
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