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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions

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Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. 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. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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IONATE Raises $17 Million to Help Grids Meet Decarbonization and AI Needs

ESG Today

Existing shareholders, IQ Capital, Zero Carbon Capital, and Cycle Group also joined the round. The round was led by AlbionVC, with a syndicate including strategic investors IQT, JGC MIRAI Innovation Fund, and institutional investors Santander InnoEnergy Climate Fund and Antares Ventures.

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

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For Etsy, the e-commerce marketplace known for handmade items like jewelry, art and apparel, Scope 3 emissions make up 99 percent of the company's carbon footprint. The ambition is part of the company's net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 goal, which it set in February. . “I There's been a lot of moves in the space right now.

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AWS Signs Deal for Fossil Free Steel for Data Center with SSAB

ESG Today

Kellen O’Connor, Managing Director Europe North at AWS, said: “Reducing the embodied carbon associated with the construction of our data centers is a key priority for AWS as we work to achieve net-zero carbon across our operations by 2040.

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Amazon, Google, Meta Join Pledge to Help Triple Global Nuclear Energy Capacity

ESG Today

Meta said that its RFPs will look to identify developers that can accelerate the availability of new nuclear generators and create scale to help reduce cost, both to provide for Metas future energy needs and to advance broader industry decarbonization.

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3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy

GreenBiz

The company was the eighth biggest plastic polluter in 2019, according to the Changing Markets Foundation. The company is aiming to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in its global operations by 2040. It has more than 50 manufacturing and research facilities globally and in 2019, it made $15.7 Most of the time, plastic.

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How a one-man scrap metal recycler became the world’s most sustainable corporation

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In 2019, the company set about bolstering its framework by adopting specific goals and metrics to track progress. In the meantime, we are still pursuing Scope 3 emissions-reduction initiatives that provide low- and net-zero-carbon solutions for our customers. We can’t eliminate these shortages, but we can alleviate them.

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