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Microsoft Replacing Steel, Concrete in New Datacenters with Wood to Cut Carbon Emissions

ESG Today

Microsoft revealed a series of initiatives aimed at reducing the embodied carbon footprint of its datacenters, including pioneering the use of wood in construction to replace steel and concrete. The new initiatives come as Microsoft looks to address the growing emissions impact of its rapidly expanding datacenter footprints.

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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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Is the green tourism industry truly sustainable?

Corporate Knights

Another feature: that 1 Hotels aims to reduce embodied carbon by using existing buildings where possible. “We We always try to look for buildings to repurpose, so we can try to address embodied carbon, even though we might not always be able to offset the total of our embodied carbon,” Hanson says. “We

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Why carbon tracking and reporting is necessary to hold corporations accountable

GreenBiz

As more companies make "carbon net-zero" commitments, how will stakeholders — investors, employees, customers and regulators — hold these companies accountable? KPMG’s 2020 Study on Climate Accounting estimates that $90 trillion of investment is needed to finance sustainable infrastructure and cities in the U.S.,

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Embodied carbon in buildings: a new frontier in greenhouse gas reduction

Sustainability Matters

In October this year the new Sustainable Buildings State Environmental Planning Policy will require architects and developers in NSW to start measuring the embodied carbon in their designs as Australia seeks to transition to a low-carbon built environment. What is embodied carbon?

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Microsoft to Require Key Suppliers to Use 100% Carbon-Free Electricity as Supply Chain Emissions Jump

ESG Today

Microsoft launched a series of goals in 2020, including commitments to become carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030, as well as to protect more land than it uses by that date. Smith and Nakagawa said: “Our challenges are in part unique to our position as a leading cloud supplier that is expanding its datacenters.

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Green building labels need a renovation

Corporate Knights

San Francisco in 2020 banned the use of natural gas in all new buildings, joining New York City and a growing number of municipalities that have taken the same step. 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.