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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

The concept of net zero goes back nearly a decade, in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 climate conference in Paris. According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris.

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Four ways we can prepare tomorrow's workers for green jobs

Corporate Knights

There is also a growing demand for urban sustainability officers who can help transition cities to be net-zero carbon and more resilient. In 2013, when the Rockefeller Foundation launched 100 Resilient Cities , a network to help cities become more sustainable, few cities had a resilience or sustainability officer.

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Travel & Tourism’s Impact on Global Warming

3BL Media

But there is a downside cost: it was estimated that the travel and tourism industry’s contribution to global GHG emissions was about 8% of the total from 2009 to 2013, based on study results published in Nature Climate Change in July 2018.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

The number of standalone lab-greening efforts has grown since Harvard-trained neuroscientist Allison Paradise created My Green Lab in 2013, from about 10 to 90 groups that engage tens of thousands of scientists around the world. That includes moving toward 100 percent renewables and a fully electric fleet.

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Microsoft to Source Clean Energy from World’s First Fusion Power Plant

ESG Today

Founded in 2013, Helion’s approach to fusion generation includes technologies such as the use of a pulsed non-ignition fusion system to overcome some of the physics challenges of fusion and the use of deuterium and helium-3 as fuel.

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CDL’s integrated sustainability report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets 

Corporate Knights

One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach . Raised Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions intensity reduction target to 63% from new baseline year 2016, validated by Science Based Targets initiative .

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Investing in Our Planet Through Science and Innovation

3BL Media

And to help us decarbonize and grow, we plan to build the world’s first net-zero carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Alberta, Canada. million metric tons of certified low- to zero-carbon emissions polyethylene and ethylene derivatives. Published online at OurWorldInData.org.