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Trane Appoints Mauro Atalla as Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer

ESG Today

The company also recently announced a target to reduce embodied carbon, or greenhouse gas emissions associated with a products lifecycle, including the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and recycling of materials and products, by 40% by 2030.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). John Bello (2018). We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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HGA and Consigli Unveil New Mass Timber Buildings at Bowdoin College

3BL Media

Early in the design process, an HGA structural analysis estimated that a timber frame system would reduce the buildings’ embodied carbon footprint by approximately 75 percent when compared to a traditional steel structure. Consigli began construction of both buildings in April 2021. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Inc.,

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Green building labels need a renovation

Corporate Knights

bike parking) that don’t really improve a building’s carbon footprint. Some point to the fact that one way to achieve Passive House certification is to use a lot of petrochemical-based insulation, which drives up embodied carbon. But life-cycle analysis will be mandatory by the end of the decade.

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Owens Corning Breaks Ground for Sustainability Investment at Paroc Hällekis

3BL Media

When the project is finalized, the investment will reduce the embodied carbon from products produced in Hällekis. The project contributes to Owens Corning’s long-term greenhouse gas emissions goal of a 50% absolute reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030, from a base year of 2018. C scenario. “We

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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations

GreenBiz

CLP's private-equity Closed Loop Leadership Fund , launched in 2018, counts Nestlé, Microsoft and Nuveen among its investors.). "I And in terms of how we integrate those with the rest of the decision process. It's really around assessing the impact, assessing the risk and then looking for that impact and risk-adjusted return," she said.

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CDL first in Southeast Asia to apply two-pillar ESG disclosure framework in its 16th Intergrated Sustainability Report – Zeros in on Positive Impact and Value

Corporate Knights

CDL achieved a 10% reduction in total operational carbon emissions across all its business operations in Singapore compared to 2021. CDL also achieved a 22% reduction in embodied carbon emissions compared to the conventional equivalents. In 2021, CDL raised the bar and renewed its SBTi-validated targets aligned with a 1.5°C