GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. and globally by 2040. Company profile.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Waste Net Zero 505

B the Change

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Companies and governments emphasize unproven technologies such as carbon capture and storage and geoengineering  — instead of tested, ready solutions like renewables and energy efficiency. A company might set a goal of net zero carbon emissions and pursue it through carbon offsets. Greenwashing can be hard to spot.

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Greenwashing Carbon Offsets Net Zero Academics 116

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 18, 2022

More than half the firm’s emissions in its supply chain come from its use of steel, principally for turbine towers. Steel is one of the most carbon-intensive materials to produce, and Vestas is in “active and intensive dialogue with its steel suppliers to address this,” says Lisa Ekstrand, head of sustainability at Vestas. “We

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Carbon Offsets Waste Decarbonize Supply Chains 256

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But in early 2019, Amazon announced an industry-first for a delivery company: It pledged that half of all of its shipments would be net-zero carbon by 2030. The entire company (including transportation) will be net-zero carbon by 2040. Just a short five years away. An Antelope Valley Transit Authority bus on the road.

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Smart Grid Supply Chain Net Zero Supply Chains 545

Just Capital

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

degree Science Based Net Zero commitment, and providing sellers with 100% recycled packaging. Apple commits to eliminating all plastics in its packaging by 2025 and has pledged to create products with net zero carbon impact. This is moving – from several years ago where this was sort of, like ‘a nice to have’ – to table stakes.

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Net Zero Climate Change Supply Chains Supply Chain 93

We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Since then over 500 companies have signed on, committing to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040. With such an enormous, far-reaching supply chain, can Amazon tackle emissions all the way down? One suggestion has been that it should refuse to carry products that have high carbon footprints in the first place.

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Paris Agreement Net Zero Carbon Offsets Decarbonize 52

Jon Hale

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Yellen at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland at the Finance Day Opening Event The good news is that the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, which includes banks, insurers, and asset managers, announced it has about $130 trillion in commitments to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, which would appear to be sufficient to close the gap.

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Net Zero COP26 Carbon Offsets Supply Chains 52