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Delivering Tangible Climate Action Through the Circular Economy

3BL Media

89% of organisations currently recycle less than 10% of their IT hardware[1], resulting in over 50 million tons of e-waste dumped into the environment every year[2]. Lenovo Asset Recovery Services helps minimise e-waste and our Recertified solutions offer refurbished devices and servers.

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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

GreenBiz

The companies said the jet fuel will be made from agricultural waste fats and oils (such as used cooking oil and inedible fats from beef processing). However, just last week, the UN group that's in charge of implementing CORSIA agreed to set the baseline targets for 2019 because of the coronavirus, essentially watering down the targets.

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Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation?

GreenBiz

Over the past year, I’ve been working with Royal Dutch Shell’s aviation division — a relatively small slice of the $344 billion (2019 revenue) energy behemoth — to develop a series of video interviews focusing on what it will take to make aviation sustainable. (I Passenger volumes took a nosedive, down precipitously from 2019 levels.

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Is carbon offsetting enough?

Envirotec Magazine

How carbon offsetting compares to carbon reduction. It made clear that more must be done to reduce and offset carbon emissions. In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations.

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Aviation is plotting a sustainable course

GreenBiz

body, set a course for airlines to offset emissions of international flights above a 2019-20 baseline. The pandemic led ICAO to scale back the program, CORSIA (for Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation), to make it easier for airlines to comply. It’s not just passenger carriers.

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BlackRock, Samsara Buy Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Compensate for Business Travel Emissions

ESG Today

In return, the companies will receive carbon offset credits for the emissions generated by employees’ business travel. SAF is made with renewable or waste feedstocks and can be used in today’s aircraft without investments to upgrade existing fleets and infrastructure, significantly reducing the carbon emissions from flights.

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Pioneering Offsets and Carbon Removal Technologies To Address Aviation’s Residual Emissions at American Airlines

3BL Media

As a result, to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the aviation sector will need to rely on carbon offsets and removals to neutralize residual emissions. American also partners with Cool Effect, a leading nonprofit provider of carbon offsets, to give our customers the opportunity to purchase offsets.