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Electrification gets down to the wire

GreenBiz

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals.

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11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance

GreenBiz

With ESG gaining more attention and more companies committing to reaching net-zero emissions in the coming decades or otherwise pledging to do better by people and the planet, it’s inevitable that the next generation of professionals in the field will define the future of sustainable finance.

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TED Talk: 3 Rules for a Zero Carbon World

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

The role of the UN is to drive transformation in every global system, from agriculture to retail from cement to steel to reach a zero carbon future. To transform these industries Topping argues for a systems approach, where all actors in every system follow underlying rules to get to zero carbon.

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Lenovo Digitizes ESG Data Management Across the Value Chain

3BL Media

Steering well-informed strategic decisions with a near-real-time view of the environmental, social, and governance performance of the manufacturing site. Lenovo is committed to achieving Net-Zero emissions by 2050 and our sustainability efforts start with our own manufacturing and supply chain. Rico Liu, Sr.

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Can the Telecom Industry Materialize a Sustainable Future With the Product Reuse?

3BL Media

percent of the global economy is circular. Raw materials are extracted, and products are manufactured, used, and discarded. A significant part of our carbon footprint comes from the supply chain, including the whole value chain from raw material extraction to customer sites. Natasha Djordjevic , Strategic Product Manager.

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The Missing Tool in the Climate Fight

Stanford Social Innovation

However, the IRA is just one early part of a massive, decades-long push to shift markets from high-carbon to low- and zero-carbon technologies. The green transition amounts to a set of epochal market shifts across virtually every sector in the global economy. degrees Celsius. How did this happen?

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We’ve taken stock of corporate climate action and business knows what it needs to deliver the clean energy transition

We Mean Business Coalition

Shifting gears and changing course Achieving the global energy transition at the scale and pace that science tells us is necessary, depends on businesses leaders taking risks, driving innovation and transforming their industries. The world invests 1.8 trillion in the energy system – 60% of which comes from private companies and investors.