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Schneider Electric Acquires Climate Consultancy EcoAct

ESG Today

Energy and automation digital solutions provider Schneider Electric announced the acquisition of climate consulting and net zero solutions provider EcoAct. Companies understand the urgency to act but continue to face complexities when it comes to decarbonization.

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Carbon Accounting Startup Optera Raises $12 Million

ESG Today

Founded in 2006 as a boutique corporate sustainability consulting firm, the Boulder, Colorado-based Optera provides sustainability management software enabling companies to accurately measure and manage Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and providing actionable insights and forecasts, and tools to collaborate with supply chain and investment partners.

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Meet the man calling out Big Tech’s climate hypocrisy

Corporate Knights

He spent the first decade of his career as a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before shifting into the tech sector to land the position of “green energy czar” at Google in 2006 and later acting as director of sustainability for Facebook.

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The era of green finance

Renewable Energy World

Companies and investors alike are seeking to get behind, and capitalize on, the decarbonization tailwinds impacting the industry. These tailwinds are likely to continue given at least 125 countries have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

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Ray of Hope Prize® Awarded to Sparxell for Plant-Based Alternative to Toxic Colorants

3BL Media

Transforming this sector is key to moving away from a fossil-fuel-based economy and to achieving net-zero targets. This technology could decarbonize the chemical industry while applying principles of Green Chemistry to create a new generation of climate positive chemicals.

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A fat load of good? Sourcing feedstocks for aviation biofuels looks not-so-simple

Envirotec Magazine

Envirotec writes Many are betting on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) as the pathway to meeting ambitious net zero targets in the sector, with 2040 and 2050 being oft-cited deadlines. It predicts a boom in renewable diesel production in 2030, and subsequent growth in SAF – “crucial to decarbonization of that sector”.

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These are Canada’s 50 fastest-growing green companies of 2023

Corporate Knights

Kontrol Technologies Growth rate: 367% Cooling and heating buildings accounts for 28% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Green Building Council, which means homes, offices and factories will need massive makeovers to meet the 2050 net-zero goal. Carbon Engineering Growth Rate: 584% Squamish, B.C.–based

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