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Qualcomm's Commitment to Net-Zero Global Operational Emissions by 2040

3BL Media

In November 2021, we were proud to publicly announce our goal to achieve net-zero global emissions across our value chain by 2040, joining more than 2,000 businesses around the world committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). What does it mean to achieve net-zero? Why 2040 vs 2050? Why set interim goals?

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JetBlue Announces Science-Based Emissions Reduction Target and Strategy To Achieve Net Zero by 2040

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SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. Charting a path to net zero. The aviation industry is at a critical time in our push towards net zero.

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Racing to Net-Zero: A Captivating but Distant Ambition

Stanford Social Innovation

More recently, companies such as Microsoft and Swiss Re have been drawn to CDR as a way to more credibly meet their net-zero goals. The reasoning is simple: A traditional carbon offset only prevents additional CO 2 from entering the atmosphere (instead of removing already-emitted CO 2 ). Calculating CDR Impact.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

If you’re a company interested in climate change, zero might be the most important number. Net zero” is the lens many businesses are using to address their climate impacts. As of October 2022, more than 8,000 companies globally have made commitments to net zero under the United Nations’ Race to Zero Campaign.

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A Voluntary Distraction

Chris Hall

Kevin Conrad, Executive Director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, says compliance carbon markets offer more effective support to the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Global Stocktake is a key process established under the Paris Agreement scheduled to take place at COP28 in Dubai.

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Three New Business Models to Achieve Carbon-Reduction Goals

3BL Media

Looking at Cooperative Approaches as a Market-Based Path Toward Net Zero. DESCRIPTION: Tetra Tech’s Rodrigo Chaparro, senior climate advisor, looks at three Cooperative Approaches as a market-based path toward net zero in advance of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). SOURCE: Tetra Tech.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The Fine Print on Carbon Credits The definitions in the federal document take a fairly expansive view of “inefficient” subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, reduce our energy security, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with the threat of climate change,” as the G20 defined the term in 2009.