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Amazon Facility on Track to be First Ever Zero Carbon Certified Fulfillment Center

ESG Today

Amazon announced today that its new Sacramento, California-based fulfillment center is on track to become the first logistics facility in the world to achieve Zero Carbon Certification by the International Living Future Institute. The ILFI certification is the first worldwide Zero Carbon third party certification standard.

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Wood You Believe: Mass Timber Leading a Renaissance in Modern Construction

3BL Media

The premiums seem to come from limited delocalized supply chain, a lack of standards in member sizes, connections, delivery method and installation trade responsibility, uncertainties in building officials’ responses to new systems. Reducing Embodied Carbon. To view the firm’s Embodied Carbon Action Plan, click here. [To

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Accelerating the Sustainable Energy Transition With SAP’s Industry Cloud

3BL Media

Reducing carbon emissions and ensuring a secure and affordable energy supply will require transitioning from fossil fuel-based energy systems to net-zero carbon sources.

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Climate resilience must be guiding principle of urban development, argues new report

Envirotec Magazine

Global supply chains – global supply chains are fragile – supply chain resilience in the face of multiple, widely distributed, extreme weather events is critical to prevent price rises and shortages from cascading round the world.

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The Business Imperatives of Sustainable Buildings

3BL Media

From zero carbon offices in London and climate-ready schools in Lagos, to well-ventilated homes in Vancouver and healthy hospitals in Victoria – the case for green, healthy buildings is clear across the world. Now to deliver a net zero building is embedded in the cost of doing business.

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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

Below is a summary of the discussions and key recommendations for achieving net zero emissions by mid-century. Friedmann concluded that low carbon appears to be the most versatile and cost competitive options for many industry sectors and that special policy options may be needed to decarbonize industrial heat.

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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations

GreenBiz

One goal of Closed Loop Partners (CLP), entering its ninth year, is to bring together institutional investors with strategic corporate investors who seek to build a circular economy for their supply chains while helping their sustainability goals. And in terms of how we integrate those with the rest of the decision process.