ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

AWS has worked with various companies in its supply chain to ensure that 70% of the structural steel used in several of its data centers in Sweden are derived from scrap-EAF sources, resulting in 10,000 fewer tons of embodied carbon emissions, the company said.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

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

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

The milestone comes as Saint-Gobain continues to successfully execute its Grow and Impact strategy, which includes ambitious environmental sustainability goals such as reducing the company’s consumption of energy and water, and achieving net-zero carbon manufacturing by 2050.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. . Nestlé knew it had to invest in designing packaging for the future to meet its packaging commitments, so it established its Institute for Packaging Science in 2019 in Switzerland.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. Planning inspectors must give as much weight to environmental targets as they do house building targets.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Today he’s the Canada chair of the Carbon Leadership Forum, where he leads a team in empowering the building industry to address an issue it long ignored: the embodied carbon lurking in building materials. It has to build housing for millions of new residents while simultaneously hitting net-zero targets.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

On 9-10 December, 2019 in Madrid, Spain alongside the UNFCCC COP25 , the Low-Emissions Solutions Conference (LESC) entitled “Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Zero-Carbon Cities This session looked at the decarbonization of buildings, including both embodied and operational emissions.

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