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Sustainability program launched across steel supply chain

Sustainability Matters

“Increasingly, government departments, project proponents, builders and developers are specifying that steel supplied by fabricators, rollformers, reinforcing suppliers, small manufacturers and steel processors must comply with best practice sustainable operations,” Beresford said. Image credit: iStock.com/schwartstock

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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

He stressed the importance of local manufacturing for local circularity, completely eliminating the increasing dependency on heavy transport. As of September 2019, at least 77 countries and 100 cities have committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Anirban Ghosh, CSO of Mahindra discussed the impossible mission: heavy transport.

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New report says the building and construction sector can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.