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Bearing and seal maker shares net-zero manufacturing journey

Envirotec Magazine

Rob Jenkinson is Net Zero Program Manager at Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing firm SKF. Reaching Net Zero 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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Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation?

GreenBiz

The push to become a sustainable aviation solutions supplier also aligned with the company’s ambition, announced to investors in April , to become a net-zero-emissions energy business by 2050. Nearly 20 years ago, in 2001, Shell set out to become a player here, too, establishing a network of offset trading desks around the world. “My

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Ontario and Alberta are building natural gas plants despite lower costs of renewables

Corporate Knights

While the grid operators in Ontario and Alberta are both “investigating pathways to a net-zero power grid,” CEC points to a fatal flaw in their analysis — they rely too often on obsolete data that may go back as far as 2001, or draw from experience in other countries.

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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

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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Cisco Refresh Empowers Businesses to Work Toward a More Sustainable Future

3BL Media

Last year, Cisco announced its commitment to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes by 2040, ten years ahead of when climate scientists say the planet must reach net zero to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

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.

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Whirlpool Corporation Named to Forbes' List of 'World's Best Employers' in Back-to-Back Years

3BL Media

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.