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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

GreenBiz

The move shows the efforts that Amazon is willing to go to eke out carbon emissions across its vast network of planes, vehicles and distribution centers that deliver on-demand goods across the globe. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030.

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Global Zero Carbon Buildings Accelerator wants to remove carbon emissions from buildings by 2050

Renewable Energy World

On Tuesday, World Resources Institute (WRI), with support from the Global Environment Facility, UN Environment Programme and World Green Building Council, among others, launched the Zero Carbon Building Accelerator (ZCBA) to speed up the transition to zero-carbon, efficient buildings.

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Biotech and Pharma Reach Tipping Point: My Green Lab’s 2024 Report Urges Focus on Scope 3 Emissions for a Zero-Carbon Future

3BL Media

Despite significant progress, the report finds that long-term progress to reach a zero-carbon future hinges on targets expanding to include Scope 3, the indirect emissions from upstream and downstream of a company’s value chain. For more information and to download the 2024 Carbon Impact of Biotech & Pharma Report click here.

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To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success

GreenBiz

To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success. Reaching the 2015 Paris Agreement goals requires bold action from all sectors and levels of our society. But any chief sustainability officer will fall short of their responsibility if they simply cite net-zero as a strategic goal. Peter Boyd.

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Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business

GreenBiz

Since 2015, companies have been able to use science to ensure their efforts to tackle climate change are sufficiently ambitious. The future of all life on Earth depends on us fundamentally changing our relationship with nature now and building an equitable, nature-positive, net-zero carbon future. Pull Quote.

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SBTi Releases Initial Draft of New Corporate Net Zero Standard

ESG Today

The SBTi was founded in 2015 with the goal to establish science-based environmental target setting as a standard corporate practice.

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Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

Net zero can be achieved, first and foremost, by cutting or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and, secondarily, by offsetting any remaining emissions through such actions as planting trees, investing in renewable energy projects that replace fossil-fuel energy, or investing in novel carbon-removal technologies such as direct air capture.

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