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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

It’s also planning an investment push that will see it fund carbon removal projects at an expected cost of $35 per metric ton in 2025, increasing to $80 per metric ton in 2030 — far higher than the amount companies traditionally pay to purchase carbon offsets on voluntary markets. .

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Demystifying the ?Absolute Zero? concept

GreenBiz

It might, for example, buy carbon offsets to kickstart action in the short term without delay, then move on to supporting initiatives that directly affect its operations, such as installing new technologies for energy efficiency or clean energy.

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Sustainability Jargon Dictionary

Carlos Sanchez

Sometimes is used also to refer to not only to carbon dioxide emissions but also to all GHGs. Real zero – No carbon emissions are being produced from a product or a service, without the use of carbon offsetting e.g. zero-carbon electricity could be provided by a 100% renewable energy supplier.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Rasmussen expects the scheme to meet its target – self-imposed, but in line with the protocol set by the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) – to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its listed equities and corporate bonds by 45% by the end of 2024, from a 2018 base. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. This could happen to my son any day of the week," she said. "I

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

And that stat was from 2018, long before this year’s pandemic and global recession created millions more hungry bellies. Microsoft said it would become "carbon negative" within a decade , with a stretch goal to remove all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975. Help could be on the way. There’s more.

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