Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

Simon Richards writes about how the construction industry is taking the lead ahead of the Government when it comes to setting targets to achieve net zero in the industry. The UK Government have set a legal requirement for the UK to be Net-Zero Carbon (NZC) by 2050.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

DESCRIPTION: One of 44 global signatories to pledge to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment covering a whole life carbon emissions approach. Raised Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions intensity reduction target to 63% from new baseline year 2016, validated by Science Based Targets initiative.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

Reaffirms its commitment to strengthening emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve net zero goal by 2030. CDL will strengthen its emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve its net zero target by 2030.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“As we continue taking bold, innovative action to decarbonize our entire value chain, this milestone highlights another remarkable step on our journey toward a net-zero future,” said Keith Sultana, senior vice president, global integrated supply chain, Trane Technologies.

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ESG Today

MARCH 20, 2024

Steel manufacturer Nucor Corporation announced today that it has signed an agreement with Mercedes-Benz to supply low-embodied carbon steel for the automaker’s production plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The plant produced approximately 295,000 vehicles in 2023.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

Complementing its pledge towards Operational Net Zero by 2030, CDL achieved a 24% reduction in carbon emissions intensity in the year under review (January to December 2022) from base-year 2016. CDL also achieved a 22% reduction in embodied carbon emissions compared to the conventional equivalents.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

million in a seed round aimed at scaling its Direct Air Capture (DAC) carbon removal solution. DAC technology, listed by the IEA as a key carbon removal option in the transition to a net-zero energy system, extracts CO2 directly from the atmosphere for use as a raw material or permanently removed when combined with storage.

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3BL Media

APRIL 27, 2022

Water is the new net-zero challenge. However, in the necessary drive towards a net-zero-carbon future, the present-day impacts of both insufficient and excess water—droughts and floods more frequent and severe due to climate change—on communities are at risk of being side-lined.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Through bold, industry-leading action, Trane Technologies is advancing its 2030 Sustainability Commitments , including the Gigaton Challenge – a pledge to reduce customer greenhouse gas emissions by 1 billion metric tons (or, one gigaton) – and its pledge to be net-zero by 2050.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As concerning, as of October 2022, only 24 countries updated their national commitment according to the UNCC, to reduce their GHGs, despite all countries agreeing to update their commitments one year earlier at COP26. C increase– to do this requires a reduction in GHG emissions of 50% by 2030 on a path to net zero by 2050.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2023

These developments are driven by concrete goals – at Ericsson, our ambition is to be Net Zero across our value chain by 2040, and the first major milestone will be to reduce supply chain and portfolio in use emissions by 50% by 2030, and to be Net Zero in our own operations at the same time.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Net Zero on Campus: From Principles to Action initiative, a collaborative effort between SDSN, the Climateworks Centre, and Monash University, aims to facilitate the sharing of lessons and resources to accelerate the decarbonization of university campuses around the world.

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 27, 2023

Transitioning to net zero is one of the greatest challenges the world has ever faced. The built environment will need to play a major role in transitioning to net zero as buildings are responsible for approximately 30% of global energy consumption, 30% of greenhouse gas emissions and, on average, 50% of emissions in major cities.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Nick Brown Education Sessions: What’s New for 2025 in the Energy Code Embodied Carbon and CALGreen Nick Brown is President of Build Smart Group, an independent energy consultancy focused on California’s residential and nonresidential energy modeling, energy code, and building performance.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Here’s the thing: The pre-use manufacturing phase accounts for 70 – 90% of hardware equipment total embodied carbon. Until recently there has not been a data lake available that joins all these lifecycles together to enable organisations to form a net zero position.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Julien Beaulieu 29, Gatineau, QC law lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke Almost half the world’s largest corporations have pledged to go net-zero, but far too many of them are “climate-washing,” Julien Beaulieu says. Robert Raynor 27, Toronto net-zero coordinator, TAS Toronto, like many Canadian cities, is in a housing crisis.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

By 2050, Michelin is committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions across our business.” Nucor is North Americas largest steel and steel products producer using a circular scrap-based steelmaking process to make low embodied carbon American made steel. LEAD on a Clean Economy 2024 comes 1.5

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