article thumbnail

FiRe Conference Highlights: ESG Risks and Embodied Carbon

3BL Media

Watch The Panel Emerging Supply Chain Risks The Business of Embodied Carbon This session highlighted embodied carbon, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of a product or material, encompassing its entire life cycle from extraction and manufacturing to transportation and disposal.

article thumbnail

Understanding the price of decarbonization

McKinsey Sustainabilty

In 2007, McKinsey developed—for a Swedish utility—the first marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) to provide such a framework (Exhibit 1). Since 2007, MACCs and their equivalents have become widely accepted. In the initial global MACC, the abatement potential for passenger EVs by 2030 was estimated at 0.05 gigatons as of 2024.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

“DC factory” picks up Energy Efficiency Award from German Energy Agency

Envirotec Magazine

Schaltbau’s NExT Factory is described as a pioneering leap in sustainable manufacturing and energy efficiency. This not only reduces the factory’s operational costs but also minimizes its environmental footprint, setting a powerful example for the manufacturing industry’s path toward climate neutrality.

article thumbnail

The 25 most sustainable public-sector companies in the world

Corporate Knights

Royal Canadian Mint In 2023, Canadas coin producer released its inaugural Impact Report and committed to making its manufacturing carbon-neutral by 2030. It will do so under new sustainability reporting requirements, with carbon dioxide pricing on construction contracts , and with a focus on minimizing the impact on Norways natural areas.

article thumbnail

Productivity at the core: How COOs deliver strategy

McKinsey Sustainabilty

percent between 2002 and 2007. Similarly, big data analytics is enabling manufacturers to optimize production processes with unparalleled precision. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, global productivity growth has largely declined around the world. Even before the crisis, advanced economies’ productivity growth receded from 2.2

article thumbnail

Advanced Economies Are Being Pushed Toward Financial Collapse

Gail Tverberg

Per-capita consumption of these early used energy sources has shrunk since peaking in 2007. Most of us remember the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009. Finally, goods and services manufactured closer to home will need to be transported to citizens, sometimes in new ways. This will further add to manufacturing difficulties. [8]

article thumbnail

Tigo Energy - Tigo Energy and BayWa r.e. Empower High-Wattage C&I Solar in Thailand

Global Renewable News

In regions with higher-than-normal irradiance values in particular, these dynamics benefit the entire industry, from equipment manufacturer to installer, and on to the operators and asset owners." About Tigo Energy Founded in 2007, Tigo Energy, Inc. ASEAN Sustainable Energy Week 2025 attendees are invited to visit BayWa r.e.