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Saint-Gobain Achieves Core Living Building Ready Designation From the International Living Future Institute for CertainTeed Innovation Malvern Renovation

3BL Media

The milestone comes as Saint-Gobain continues to successfully execute its Grow and Impact strategy, which includes ambitious environmental sustainability goals such as reducing the company’s consumption of energy and water, and achieving net-zero carbon manufacturing by 2050.

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Is the green tourism industry truly sustainable?

Corporate Knights

Yet the footprint of flying hasn’t slowed global demand for ecotourism , which was estimated to generate about US$180 billion in 2019, with revenue expected to almost double by the end of the decade. In the green building industry, net-zero is a building that produces as much energy as it uses.

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SteelZero commitments represent a new era in heavy manufacturing production

GreenBiz

The program brings together the top steel buyers across the globe — including construction companies, real estate groups and property developers — and challenges them to commit to procuring 100 percent net-zero emissions steel by 2050. Members include Lendlease, Mace Group, Multiplex Construction Europe and WSP UK.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

Kyoto Protocol agreed to use as a benchmark for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and 2050, the year many countries set as their target for carbon net zero. Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero.

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Bearing and seal maker shares net-zero manufacturing journey

Envirotec Magazine

Rob Jenkinson is Net Zero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson.

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Planning to fail: net zero is impossible without urgent changes to planning policy, says countryside charity

Envirotec Magazine

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. No other local authority has a plan to hit net zero. Housing, transport, business and industry generate 62% of our carbon emissions.

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Academia, Cities, and the Private Sector Gather to Discuss "Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Degree World" alongside Global Climate Summit COP25

Sustainable Development Network

On 9-10 December, 2019 in Madrid, Spain alongside the UNFCCC COP25 , the Low-Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) entitled “Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Below is a summary of the discussions and key recommendations for achieving net zero emissions by mid-century.