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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.

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

Corporate Knights

What is more is that Schneider Electric has seen its sustainability-led strategy contribute tripling its annual revenue from €9bn in 2003 to €34bn in 2022. An example of how this translates is Schneider Electric’s flagship program Zero Carbon Project , which aims to halve supplier CO 2 emissions by 2025.

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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

GreenBiz

That's when founder Anderson set "Mission Zero" goals to remove negative environmental impacts by 2020, an ambition that largely has been achieved. The company took this commitment a step further by applying these same metrics and goals to its suppliers in what it called the Suppliers to Zero program.

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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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Advancing Sustainability Innovation at VMware

3BL Media

A 2020 IDC report (IDC white paper, sponsored by VMware: “Enabling More Agile & Sustainable Business through Carbon-Efficient Digital Transformations,” August 2020.) Zero Carbon Committed. In May of last year, VMware launched our Zero Carbon Committed (ZCC) public-cloud partner initiative.

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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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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.