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How Yum! Brands Is Making Its Supply Chain More Sustainable

3BL Media

“We rely on healthy agriculture systems to support sustainable crop yields and livestock productivity,” said Yum! Chief Sustainability Officer Jon Hixson. “If If temperatures rise and extreme weather events increase, then there may be less supply of items like beef, chicken and cheese worldwide. It’s all connected.

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Climate Action for Suppliers Helps Make HP's Supply Chain More Sustainable

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With one of the largest supply chains in the IT industry, reducing upstream emissions benefits the value chain and the planet. DESCRIPTION: By James McCall, Chief Sustainability Officer. At the same time, we asked our partners to disclose their footprint using CDP Supply Chain reporting tools.

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Better Together: The Climate Pledge

GreenBiz

Join us for a conversation about the power of companies (big and small) coming together to tackle the climate crisis, and hear why Global Optimism and Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge—a bold commitment to become net zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. . Kara Hurst, Head of Worldwide Sustainability, Amazon.

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

3BL Media

Below, Angela Baker, Qualcomm’s Chief Sustainability Officer, discusses our commitment to reach net-zero GHG emissions by 2040, why the Company has made this a priority, and the roadmap to achieve our goals. What does it mean to achieve net-zero? Why did Qualcomm decide to commit to net-zero? Why 2040 vs 2050?

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Episode 248: Mastercard CSO, parsing plastics policy, Paris Agreement at 5

GreenBiz

Episode 248: Mastercard CSO, parsing plastics policy, Paris Agreement at 5. Does 2020 mark a turning point for delivering on the Paris Agreement goals? Happy 5th anniversary, Paris Agreement (39:25) . Can we create a circular supply chain for supplies? Paris Agreement.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. I've got history in sustainability, but I'm a business guy.

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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27

We Mean Business Coalition

In a huge step forward for net zero economies and supply chains, the U.S. For instance, Probodha Acharya, Chief Sustainability Officer at JSW Group discussed how the company’s cement, with a carbon intensity of 300kg CO2 per tonne of cement, now makes it the lowest carbon cement company in the world.