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SAP’s Journey to Net Zero 2030

3BL Media

As a global technology company supporting the vast majority of the world’s business, SAP needs to lead from the front with our ambitions and actions. That is why SAP has committed to achieve net-zero emissions across our value chain by 2030. What Does Net Zero Mean? C science-based emissions reduction target.

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No Quick Fix to Europe’s Gas Dependency

Chris Hall

Last summer, the European Commission launched a raft of climate-related legislation – ‘ Fit for 55 ’ (Ff55) – to reduce net EU emissions by 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels. It includes a proposal for amending the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive to increase its target for renewables to 40% of its overall energy mix by 2030.

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Tech Offers Fast Track to Green Revenues

Chris Hall

The total value of the global green economy rose by an annual compound growth rate of around 14% over the past 12 years, said FTSE Russell, and is currently worth over US$7 trillion, accounting for 7.1% of global equity markets. Its share of the global economy will need to grow from 7%, to between 16% and 25% by 2050.

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Aligning Finance with Climate Action

Chris Hall

The Paris Agreement stimulated a reckoning to align public and private finance with net zero and climate resilience. More money flows to fossil fuel-related investments than to mitigation and adaptation in over 50 global economies , which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change labels a “persistent misallocation”.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.) percent of its GDP. Skeptics have criticized its commitment for not going far enough. .

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Rethinking Former GE CEO Jack Welch’s Legacy Offers Insight Into the Future of American Capitalism

Just Capital

Well, as you acknowledge, the moment right around when Jack took over was a period of immense change in the American economy and the global economy at large. Hundreds and hundreds of companies have now pledged to go net zero by 2040 and I think thousands have said they’ll do it by 2050.