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For High-Tech Supply Chains, CO2 Emission Tracking Is Sustainable Business Currency

3BL Media

IDC researchers predicted that by 2024, to improve long-term supply chain profitability, 70% of manufacturers in global supply chains will invest in software tools supporting sustainability and a circular economy business model. Consider the carbon footprint of a laptop. Consider the carbon footprint of a laptop.

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Electrification could squeeze CO2 out of industrial supply chains

GreenBiz

Electrification could squeeze CO2 out of industrial supply chains. In a net-zero carbon world, the low-carbon solution wins. With this in mind, the remaining years of this decade will be defined by tackling value chain emissions. These Scope 3 emissions often are seen as the third rail of climate policy.

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Amazon aims to clean up aviation

GreenBiz

And climate change remains a big one. . More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . A startup called Infinium announced it has raised a round of funding including backing from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund. Supply Chain.

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7 Companies Leading the Net Zero Energy Revolution

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Last year marked a global shift in corporations adopting low-carbon and net-zero pledges as experts at the United Nations Climate Change Conference , COP26, declared that the climate crisis is at a critical inflection point. C commitment and 7,126 companies have joined the Race to Zero.

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BIER Member Spotlight: Paul Bruijn

3BL Media

Learn how these practitioners and their companies are addressing pressing challenges around water, energy, agriculture, climate change, and what inspires each of them to advance environmental sustainability in the beverage sector and collectively, overall. In between all process blocks, we have logistics from trucks, ships, and trains.

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How the Healthcare Industry Can Confront the Climate Crisis Through Its Supply Chain

3BL Media

Indeed, the connection between environmental health and human health underscores the importance of the medical community’s role in reaching net zero carbon emissions. Some of these greenhouse gases are produced from healthcare facilities; others are the result of the industry’s supply chain of goods and services.

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Getting to Net-Zero for Hard-to-Abate Sectors

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

From the super-heated factories needed to make steel and cement to the dirty fuel powering container ships and airplanes, these industries are known as Hard-to-Abate sectors. In both shipping and aviation, electric engines using battery or hydrogen energy storage could be used in short-haul transport. of global GDP by mid-century.