South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has announced a green management initiative which hopes to make it a leading eco-friendly company by the year 2013. In doing so, it pinpointed four core objectives as part of its “Eco-Management 2013″ plan, which includes:

    * Reducing emissions of greenhouse gas from manufacturing facilities by 50 percent while cutting indirect emissions from all products by 84 million tons
    * Ensuring all of its products are both eco-friendly and exceed global eco-mark standards
    * Investing approximately $4.3 billion in eco-management initiatives
    * Furthering green partnerships with suppliers and partners

The company will attempt to identify new recyclable and organic materials for use in items such as laptops and cell phones.

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The green initiatives have begun :

Effective carbon emission mitigation
Reduction and offset techniques
Partnership with United Nations Environment Program(UNEP) to work towards reducing the carbon footprint and become a
benchmark for multidisciplinary games in the future

Initiatives taken by the Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi:

Eco Consciousness through sensitisation camps
Water consumption at every venue
Bio diverse afforestation drive
Anti litter campaigns
Sustainable eco friendly transport to reduce carbon emissions

A nice article posted on 123oye.net about “Promoting Green Innovation – World IP Day Theme 2009” Are we doing enough?

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