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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

Adevinta ASA Circular-consumption champion Norway-based Adevinta is an online classifieds group behind many popular digital marketplaces: Kijiji in Canada, leboncoin in France and Subito in Italy, among others. Since 2019, it has cut air carbon by 7.5% and ground carbon by 15%.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . The city’s appetite for tech drove a great deal of investment in automation and digitization. .

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Schneider Electric leads the smart grid revolution

Corporate Knights

In this weeks Corporate Knights drill-down, we focus on the importance of smart grids to transition to a sustainable economy, and Schneiders electrics investments in smart grid technologies. Smart grids are crucial for transitioning to a sustainable economy and addressing climate change. billion dedicated to R&D.

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Modernizing Building Management Systems at the University of Notre Dame

Cisco CSR

With these considerations in mind, the university launched a project focused on refreshing and modernizing its existing building management systems in 2019. Consulting with Havel , an EMCOR Company, UND decided to upgrade its existing Schneider Electric BMS to the company’s EcoStruxure Building Operation platform. The Project.

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2023 Global 100 most sustainable companies

Corporate Knights

Ralph Torrie, Corporate Knights’ research director, says rising oil prices have stimulated growth in renewables, smart buildings, electric vehicles and other climate solutions, including circular economy measures. 2019 GLOBAL 100. compared to 222.1% Indeed, the top-ranked company, Schnitzer Steel , is a metals recycler.

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See. Measure. Reduce. Building a sustainable practice with Cisco Customer Experience (CX)

Cisco CSR

. — Co-authored by Marisol Palmero, Esther Roure Vila , and Snezana Mitrovic Co-author Esther Roure Vila , Sustainability Lead, Cisco CX EMEA Sustainability is broadly recognized as not just an urgent need to combat climate change and protect the environment but also a business driver and digital transformation accelerator.

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Hong Kong’s Standard Chartered Bank goes digital in 30-year-old building amid urban renewal push

Eco-Business

Johnson Controls, CBRE joint providers of smart building technologies and commercial real estate services SHANGHAI, October 23, 2019 - Johnson Controls and CBRE have developed a customized, integrated digital solution for the Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) office that is housed in the SCB Building in Kowloon East, Hong Kong.