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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

GreenBiz

Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal

GreenBiz

For Etsy, the e-commerce marketplace known for handmade items like jewelry, art and apparel, Scope 3 emissions make up 99 percent of the company's carbon footprint. The ambition is part of the company's net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 goal, which it set in February. . “I

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

Heathrow SP Ltd Pursuing low-carbon air travel Flying is notoriously carbon intensive, but Heathrow SP Ltd., the company behind Londons Heathrow Airport, is working on cutting up to 15% carbon in the air by 2030 (using waste-based aviation fuels) and at least 45% carbon on the ground by 2030. and ground carbon by 15%.

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AWS Signs Deal for Fossil Free Steel for Data Center with SSAB

ESG Today

This process emits water vapor instead of carbon dioxide. AWS has worked with various companies in its supply chain to ensure that 70% of the structural steel used in several of its data centers in Sweden are derived from scrap-EAF sources, resulting in 10,000 fewer tons of embodied carbon emissions, the company said.

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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations

GreenBiz

One goal of Closed Loop Partners (CLP), entering its ninth year, is to bring together institutional investors with strategic corporate investors who seek to build a circular economy for their supply chains while helping their sustainability goals. The economics are very efficient today.".

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3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy

GreenBiz

The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. The company is aiming to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in its global operations by 2040. It has more than 50 manufacturing and research facilities globally and in 2019, it made $15.7 Most of the time, plastic.

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How a one-man scrap metal recycler became the world’s most sustainable corporation

Corporate Knights

In 2019, the company set about bolstering its framework by adopting specific goals and metrics to track progress. Schnitzer has not set specific Scope 3 emissions targets yet because it’s working through how best to account for and verify the emissions inventory data of the various external operations in its supply chain, Lundgren explains.

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