3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

The milestone comes as Saint-Gobain continues to successfully execute its Grow and Impact strategy, which includes ambitious environmental sustainability goals such as reducing the company’s consumption of energy and water, and achieving net-zero carbon manufacturing by 2050.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. . Middaugh noted that Microsoft focuses on metrics around the use of recyclable materials; landfill diversion in terms of solid waste and the construction and demolition waste at its campuses, and an overlapping focus on embodied carbon.

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Sustainability Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have developed an online resource that provides a pathway to achieving ‘whole of life’ net zero carbon for Australian buildings by 2040. Meanwhile, embodied carbon footprints, which are accrued before a building is even constructed, have usually been overlooked by the industry.

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

In 2024, USGBC is doing a slow-release of LEED v5, which introduces new prerequisites such as "embodied carbon assessment" and "climate resilience assessment" to emphasize upfront environmental impact and long-term adaptability to climate change. Documentation Gather any necessary information for certification.

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3BL Media

JULY 10, 2023

Reducing carbon emissions and ensuring a secure and affordable energy supply will require transitioning from fossil fuel-based energy systems to net-zero carbon sources. Integrating ESG information into asset management strategies has become an increasingly significant priority for companies.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 11, 2025

In line with its Operational Net Zero 2030 target, CDL has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 operational carbon emissions for assets under direct management and operational control by 25% from 2016 levels. It achieved a 38% reduction in Scope 3 embodied carbon in new developments compared with a 2016 baseline.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

This is especially true if you aim for ambitious sustainability goals, like saving millions of gallons of water per year or achieving a net-zero carbon facility. And what are net zero carbon emissions? What is sustainability?

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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Raised by two environmentalists, she’s dedicated to ensuring women have equal opportunity to succeed in our net-zero future. Last year, Folino’s firm made a commitment to make its operations and assets under management net-zero by 2050 or earlier – a challenge he’s embracing with open arms.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

By achieving net zero in our cities, we can shift the global emissions trajectory and avert worse-case-scenario temperature rises. Private finance has a clear role to play in driving the shift in cities to net zero as it will likely provide 80-90% of total investment in the transition in the coming decades. [2]

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 21, 2022

Wellbeing and the role of technology in the asset life cycle : Explore the importance of understanding user experience and how this informs the design, modelling, analysis, ratings and ongoing building operation to design spaces that promote occupant wellbeing. Image credit: ©stock.adobe.com/au/jamesteohart.

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Sustainability Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, it requires a data-driven approach to helping data centre operators identify and categorise emissions from operations and the supply chain, then prioritise efforts to make impactful carbon reductions. Vendors need to commit to reducing the embodied carbon of their product portfolio.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Below is a summary of the discussions and key recommendations for achieving net zero emissions by mid-century. Cristina Gamboa of the WGBC presented the future of buildings, “By 2030, new buildings, infrastructure and renovations will have at least 40% less embodied carbon, with significant upfront carbon reduction.”

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Chris Hall

APRIL 13, 2023

It also said that greater clarity is required to ensure there is decision useful information for investors to ensure real estate capital markets can operate effectively and sustainably to mitigate climate change. The post GRE Strategy Targets Real Estate Transition appeared first on ESG Investor.

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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. Let your stand be the result of your own informed perspective, not just popular sentiment.”

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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. For more information, visit ceres.org and follow @CeresNews.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 31, 2022

Cognizant of the need to reduce carbon emissions, one such lab, a WSP client, “is constantly evolving, being more efficient and looking at ways to reduce water and energy consumption,” says Leslie Gartner, senior VP of science and technology design, based in Atlanta. If you cut costs, you increase carbon. It’s containment.”.

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3BL Media

MARCH 26, 2025

This industry-leading move expands upon the companys existing collaboration with MEP 2040 to reduce carbon emissions and aligns with Trane Technologies ambitious 2030 Sustainability Commitments. Our support of the MEP 2040 Challenge underscores our dedication to reducing emissions and embodied carbon across the built environment in support.

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