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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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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In particular, we need to reduce 23 Gigatonnes by 2030 from the current 41 Gt emitted per year and achieve net-zero by 2050. In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges.