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Meet the man calling out Big Tech’s climate hypocrisy

Corporate Knights

He spent the first decade of his career as a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before shifting into the tech sector to land the position of “green energy czar” at Google in 2006 and later acting as director of sustainability for Facebook. Congress has ever taken to tackle climate change.

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BCG Acquires Sustainability Transformation Consultancy Quantis

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Boston Consulting Group (BCG) announced today the acquisition of environmental sustainability consultancy Quantis, in a move aimed at strengthening the firm’s climate and sustainability expertise and transformation capabilities.

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Advancing Environmental Sustainability in the Beverage Sector Through Collaboration

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The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) is a technical coalition formed in 2006. By focusing on this, BIER aims to affect sector change through work focused on water stewardship, energy efficiency and climate change, beverage container recycling, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem services.

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Masdar Issues $750 Million Green Bond to Fund “Dark Green” Clean Energy Projects

ESG Today

Founded in 2006, Abu Dhabi-based Masdar develops utility scale renewable energy and green hydrogen projects around the world. Ahead of the UAE hosting the UN climate change conference, COP28, we must champion initiatives that advance climate finance and decarbonization. billion, or more than 5.6x

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From Ambition to Action: Owens Corning Moves To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Taking the position that manufacturers must step into a lead role in combating climate change, Owens Corning has committed to make dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade. In addition, we must work to reduce emissions from our processes and improve energy efficiency.” million megawatt-hours per year.

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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?

Corporate Knights

Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.

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Are Investors and Companies Ready for the Energy Transition?

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Technology is improving: Allehaut notes that the largest solar project in 2006 was an 11MW project in Portugal. Scientists and engineers are also working on carbon removal, carbon sequestration and storage, hydrogen power, long-duration energy storage, and other innovative solutions to climate change. GW, some 200 times bigger.