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Rob Jenkinson is NetZero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. Reaching NetZero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson.
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from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol in 2001. Rebranded as Beyond Petroleum in 2001, the company went on to run a campaign, devised by Ogilvy & Mather, that introduced the notion of the “carbon footprint” (not yet in common parlance) and encouraged individuals to reduce their own, even providing a calculator on its website for the purpose.
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We are one piece of a big puzzle,” she says, estimating that two-thirds of the investment required to achieve net-zero by 2050 will come from the private sector. Susan Todd, president, Solstice Sustainability Works Net-zero aspirations have also opened up new avenues for creative accounting.
The formation of those groups reaches back as far as 1998, with the office for Diversity and Inclusion created a few years later in 2001. The company has eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for underrepresented groups in North America; two in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region; six in Latin America; and one in Asia.
Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. The company’s "Commitment to Life" vision for 2030 includes net-zero GHG emissions by 2030, and raising by 7.4 In 2019, Gutierrez issued a new goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, expecting to reach it halfway by 2025.
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