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Owens Corning Publishes 2024 Sustainability Report

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In addition, the company reduced the amount of waste sent to landfills by 11 percent year-over-year and 20 percent compared to a 2018 baseline. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: The company has achieved a 43 percent reduction in Scope 1 and 2 market-based emissions from a 2018 baseline, including an 11 percent reduction in 2024.

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Fast-Forwarding Towards Sustainable Ecosystems: CDL Marks 30 Years of Sustainability Efforts With 18th Integrated Sustainability Report 2025

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In line with its Operational Net Zero 2030 target, CDL has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 operational carbon emissions for assets under direct management and operational control by 25% from 2016 levels. It achieved a 38% reduction in Scope 3 embodied carbon in new developments compared with a 2016 baseline. The Group recorded a 52.1%

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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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HGA and Consigli Unveil New Mass Timber Buildings at Bowdoin College

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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

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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.