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Delivering Tangible Climate Action Through the Circular Economy

3BL Media

89% of organisations currently recycle less than 10% of their IT hardware[1], resulting in over 50 million tons of e-waste dumped into the environment every year[2]. Lenovo Asset Recovery Services helps minimise e-waste and our Recertified solutions offer refurbished devices and servers.

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Is your team embedding equity considerations into its carbon removal projects?

GreenBiz

Examples of this dynamic include projects such as a hydroelectric plant in Guatemala ( later linked to egregious human rights abuse ) and forest preservation projects in Brazil ; both offered Western companies opportunities to gain carbon offset credits, but the reality of their impact from a human rights standpoint was less understood. .

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Overcome the Challenges of the Modern Workplace With a Tailored Sustainability Strategy

3BL Media

These include supporting hybrid workers, providing energy-efficient end-user devices, accurately measuring carbon footprint, eliminating packaging waste, streamlining deployment, optimising datacentre use, extending device lifecycles, securing end-of-life dispositions, and managing e-waste, among others.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

It's already powering its scooters and operations with clean energy as well as buying carbon offsets to neutralize emissions. Recently Lime also announced a partnership with the World Wildlife Foundation, which include programs around education, advocacy and carbon innovation. The end goal is carbon neutrality. .

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A Voluntary Distraction

Chris Hall

To understand the role of net carbon removers within the broader net zero conversation, it important to breakdown how the Paris Agreement is structured, explains Kevin Conrad, Executive Director of the CfRN, with its foundation built around ‘climate stability’. The CfRN is an intergovernmental organisation that was established in 2005.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

For example, Canada has a net-zero-by-2050 goal , with a 2030 goal of reducing emissions by 40%–45% (compared to 2005 levels). That comes with a new tax on carbon, making fossil fuel use more expensive. In food systems, for example, we need fundamental shifts to “regenerative” production and waste reduction.

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Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore

Eco-Business

The country has committed to unconditionally reducing GHG emissions intensity by 36 percent from 2005 levels, and to peak its carbon emissions by 2030. There are both government-led and ground-up campaigns to encourage Singaporeans to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste.