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A Science-Based Determination: The Fastest Path to Decarbonizing Buildings Is a Digital Technology-First Approach

3BL Media

With 37% of global CO2 emissions coming from buildings, it is crucial that buildings are decarbonized in the race to meet science-based climate targets. The most significant opportunity to accelerate carbon reduction in the building sector is to retrofit existing buildings. It’s the fastest path decarbonizing buildings.

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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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How Can We Decarbonize Labs, Without Compromising Science?

3BL Media

What happens when the march toward net-zero runs headlong into human activity that benefits health, welfare and conditions on Earth? That question is anything but hypothetical in scientific laboratories, which present some of the most daunting challenges to decarbonization. Why labs are so difficult to decarbonize.

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Member-Client Highlight: PTC Demonstrates Next Generation Sustainability Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Under the direction of VP of Sustainability Dave Duncan, PTC’s ESG team has begun and made impressive progress in developing a robust program, including carbon footprint measurement and tracking, extensive public reporting efforts, and crafting a world-class decarbonization strategy.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

Julien Beaulieu 29, Gatineau, QC law lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke Almost half the world’s largest corporations have pledged to go net-zero, but far too many of them are “climate-washing,” Julien Beaulieu says. We know that everything we call waste could be a valuable resource.” Clearly, he chose wisely.

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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

This year's event built off the learning from the SDSN's Roadmap to 2050 A Manual for National to Decarbonize by Mid-Century report published in partnership with Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM). The event’s panels on the first day were focused on the decarbonization of the power, transport, industry, and buildings sectors.