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

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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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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

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The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. At Starbucks, that expanded focus also blends with its climate leadership initiatives. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so. and Canadian cities.

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2020 was the year that…

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Remember 2019? the beforetime — accentuating the positive, seeking signs of progress and hope. 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. It was a very long year. But it was much, much longer than that.

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