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Corporate climate action: 3 acceleration areas to get ahead on in 2024

Corporate Knights

For example, in buildings, technologies such as heating electrification and active energy efficiency solutions have the potential to lower carbon emissions by 2030, generating up to 70% carbon savings for building dwellers, and up to 30% energy savings with a return on investment within 3-5 years.

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Advancing Sustainability Innovation at VMware

3BL Media

In the first installment of this blog series, “ Accelerating Decarbonization of the World’s Digital Infrastructure ,” I defined and explained why the next frontier for innovation is sustainable computing. Zero Carbon Committed. In May of last year, VMware launched our Zero Carbon Committed (ZCC) public-cloud partner initiative.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Intel AI for Youth seeks to bridge the digital divide in STEM education.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . She was executive producer of the 2017 documentary "Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America." . percent of its GDP. 17, there were 53 signatories representing 18 industries. .