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

Corporate Knights

55% emission saving potential based on existing solutions Contrary to popular belief, decarbonization of demand accounts for more than half of global emissions reduction, to reach net-zero by 2050, with supply decarbonization accounting for the rest.

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Sustainable Materials Provider Newlight Raises $125 Million

ESG Today

Founded in 2003, California-based Newlight produces AirCarbon, a biomaterial produced using naturally occurring microorganisms from the ocean that eat air and greenhouse gas and convert it inside of their cells. Direct Air Capture provides a unique opportunity to supply CO2 as a raw material to create low carbon products.

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Telling the Nuclear Story

3BL Media

She moved into plant leadership in 2001 as a mechanical maintenance first-line supervisor, followed by operations, receiving her senior reactor operator license in 2003. Lowering our carbon emissions can’t be achieved through renewables alone, although those are important, too.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

But in early 2019, Amazon announced an industry-first for a delivery company: It pledged that half of all of its shipments would be net-zero carbon by 2030. The entire company (including transportation) will be net-zero carbon by 2040. City of Oakland.

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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. Full traceability for palm oil, mica, paper, alcohol, soy and cotton is due in 2025.

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Granholm sworn in as 16th Secretary at U.S. Department of Energy

Renewable Energy World

“DOE is powered by brilliant scientists, engineers, and energy policy experts who are the very best for the job we’ve been tasked with: to develop and deploy new clean energy technologies that will achieve the Administration’s goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and secure our nation’s future.

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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. . It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.) percent of its GDP. Skeptics have criticized its commitment for not going far enough. .