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Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal

GreenBiz

Back in 2019, Etsy launched its first initiative focused on reducing the carbon emissions of its marketplace by introducing carbon offset shipping. Etsy then works with 3Degrees , a carbon offset and renewable energy company, to invest in emissions reduction projects such as wind and solar farms or forest protection. .

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Reducing Our Footprint at Eaton

3BL Media

We are aiding the global decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by reducing our emissions with science-based and carbon neutral operations targets and by helping our customers decarbonize with our digitalization, electrification and energy transition solutions. Where emissions cannot be reduced by 2030, we plan to use carbon offsets.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018.

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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

“The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years,” the UN agency states in its Sixth Assessment Report , a final synthesis that brings together six in-depth science and policy reports dating back to October, 2018. The dangers of overshooting 1.5°C

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

The announcement also connects to an international initiative under which Canada and Argentina launched a peer review of each other’s fossil fuel subsidies in 2018. Carbon Capture Backed by Carbon Offsets? increase in 2021, the Canadian Climate Institute reported in February). That work was meant to conclude by 2020.

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Copper industry trade association pledges to reach net zero by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Refined copper production emitted an estimated 97 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent in 2018, according to the group’s figures. If required at all, carbon offsets and commercially unrealized technologies like carbon capture would be limited to minimal, highly specific cases.” This constitutes around 0.2

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