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What Are Carbon Offsets and Why Do Corporations Use Them?

3BL Media

When one greatly outweighs the other, problems arise, and currently there is a big one brewing in the carbon offset market—demand has grown exponentially and supply simply cannot keep pace. What are carbon offsets and why is it so difficult to make them verifiable, impactful, and scalable? What are carbon offsets?

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Is carbon offsetting enough?

Envirotec Magazine

How carbon offsetting compares to carbon reduction. It made clear that more must be done to reduce and offset carbon emissions. In the years since 2015’s Paris Climate Accord, many industrial businesses have begun using carbon offsetting strategies to balance the emissions of their operations.

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Delivering Tangible Climate Action Through the Circular Economy

3BL Media

From manufacturing through to end-of-life, Lenovo supports sustainability at every step of the journey. Additional ways to reduce your carbon footprint While reduce emissions is always the goal, sometimes it’s necessary to look at additional ways to reduce your carbon footprint.

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Lenovo CO2 Offset Services Surpasses 1 Million Metric Tonnes of Carbon Offsets Milestone, As More Businesses Champion Sustainability Practices

3BL Media

Offset funds will be invested in UN-approved initiatives like renewable energy or ecological projects across the world. The company also announced that enterprises can now add Lenovo CO2 offsets to their purchase of select Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. Looking beyond offsets. Growing demand for ESG services.

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Lenovo Boosts Sustainability Efforts at European Manufacturing Facility With Expanded Solar Power Capacity

3BL Media

Lenovo’s manufacturing facility in Budapest was built from the ground up with sustainability in mind and the new solar panels bring the total solar energy capacity onsite up to 3 megawatts (MW), enough to power an electric car to drive 10,800 miles. said Stefan Brechling Larsen, Global Sustainability Services Engagement Leader at Lenovo.

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Expanding Environmental Commitments

3BL Media

The project, conducted at our German manufacturing facility, replaces high global warming potential gases used in our processes, such as sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), with a Fluorine-based gas mixture that has a global warming potential of zero, thereby greatly reducing our direct Scope 1 GHG emissions.

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Can Shell help pilot a new era of sustainable aviation?

GreenBiz

Along the way, I’ve spoken with airline consultants, fuel producers, carbon offset experts and industry critics, as well as with Shell executives, to understand the technologies and market drivers that could, over time, enable aviation to align with other industries in meeting the terms of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.