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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. It’s the fastest path decarbonizing buildings. C, we must halve emissions by the end of this decade and reach net zero by 2050. Technology-first retrofits.

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Can carbon capture be a meaningful climate solution?

Corporate Knights

But a suite of technologies collectively known as carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, are among the tools available to help meet global targets to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The strongest criticisms are lobbed at using CCUS to extract fossil fuels. kilometers underground.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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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Saint-Gobain Reveals the 5 Winners of the Global Architecture Student Contest

3BL Media

This edition of the Architecture Student Contest was special: launched in Serbia in 2004, this is its 20th year of existence. Every year, the projects have increased their focus on environmental aspects including for example Life Cycle Assessments, while responding to the functional and user needs.

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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future 

Richard Matthews

According to a report published by Ceres , the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative has grown to 128 investors who collectively manage $43 trillion. PEs are ideally suited to address decarbonization the issue at the core of the climate crises. Generation has been a leader in ESG investing since 2004.

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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2023 Leadership Award Winners

Green Technology

This 10-story, LEED Platinum-certified, Net-Zero Energy and Carbon building provides a transitional home for California’s Legislature and Executive Branch and facilitates public access to legislative hearings. MLK Elementary School was a newly constructed K-6 school site that both net zero energy and carbon.

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The JUST Report: Better Disclosure Can Build Trust in Corporate Wage Strategies

Just Capital

Rolls-Royce tests the first hydrogen-fueled aircraft engine, an important step to decarbonize flying. Vail Resorts achieves its 100% renewable energy goal and stays on track for a net-zero operating footprint by 2030. I think more venture capital money will be going into decarbonization. What’s Happening at JUST.

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