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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Elsa Wenzel. It is already at 96 percent renewable energy toward the 2030 goal of 100 percent.

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NRG Energy 2021 Sustainability Report: Our Sustainability Strategy

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: 2021 was another year of progress, made possible through collaboration and innovation. Supplemented our annual public policy and political contributions disclosure with an inaugural report on the climate positions of our disclosed membership organizations . NRG Energy: Our journey to a greener tomorrow.

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Commitment to Customers, Transparency, and Decarbonization

3BL Media

Third, we recognize that recent acquisitions – including Direct Energy in 2021 and Vivint Smart Home in 2023 – have broadened NRG’s business activities beyond electricity generation. In 2022, however, our GHG emissions increased relative to 2021, driven by increased generation, which in turn was driven by power market conditions and weather.

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The ESG Interview: Profits that Don’t Cost the Earth

Chris Hall

McMahon says the overarching objective is to develop a “climate positive” portfolio of assets that will deliver on net zero targets, while having measurable impacts on biodiversity and soil health. When it comes to agricultural and forestry carbon management, it’s private sector actors driving change by buying carbon credits.”.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

And, perhaps, to set us on a more bullish course for 2021. Microsoft said it would become "carbon negative" within a decade , with a stretch goal to remove all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975. But getting to zero — or neutral or positive or some other goal — is not without controversy.

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