Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

T hree years ago, Canada enshrined its 2050 net-zero target into law. Bringing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions to a level anywhere in the vicinity of zero, net or otherwise, in the next 30 years will require a radical departure from what we’ve seen the last three decades. Such an alignment is possible.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It includes everything from innovating more energy-efficient networking solutions and circular -designed products to setting stringent 2040 net-zero goals and supporting its vast global customer base on their own sustainability journeys. So, smart buildings are a critical focus for Cisco.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2024

Pioneering leaders of the healthy building movement exploring just how “smart” buildings can be. On the MainStage: How Smart is Your Smart Building? Oliver, Chairman and CEO, Johnson Controls International Rachel Hodgdon, President & CEO, IWBI 3.

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3BL Media

APRIL 23, 2024

The program involved upgrading HVAC systems to ultra-efficient models and implementing smart building controls. We are proud to have played an important part in helping the State reach its 2050 net-zero carbon emissions goal.

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ESG Today

MARCH 13, 2023

Buildings efficiency, controls, and automation company Johnson Controls announced today the launch of OpenBlue Net Zero Advisor, a new data tool aimed at providing building owners and managers with a single dashboard to assess carbon footprints, set targets, and manage and track emissions.

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Cisco CSR

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Most IT departments will begin their sustainability work by verifying that IT technologies are being sourced from companies with “Net Zero” policies and programs. The industry for smart building technology is diverse, and you will certainly find an IoT device or sensor for just about any project.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Investee companies will span sectors ranging from circular economy, renewable energies, and energy storage and efficiency, to transport and mobility, smart buildings, cities and grid, and hydrogen. Innovation is critical to helping achieve net zero by 2050.

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Sustainability Matters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Key topics for speaker submission include: Case studies in innovation and best practices in HVAC&R and building facilities Latest industry developments, research and global trends Net zero strategies and low-energy HVAC approaches Regulatory and compliance requirements Technological innovations: IoT, smart buildings, data analytics Energy efficiency, (..)

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2022

Real estate-focused ESG data provider Deepki announced today the acquisition of UK-based energy and building performance data platform Fabriq. Its existing technology is complementary to Deepki Ready and, combined with our advisory services, this makes it an exciting partner as we build the business globally.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the launch of the Climate Smart Buildings Initiative, a new government-wide program aimed at modernizing federal buildings through public-private partnerships, driving significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the government’s existing building stock.

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Cisco CSR

MAY 2, 2022

Examples of that technology include smart grids and smart buildings. Smart grids. Smart buildings. Smart buildings address this challenge, leveraging automated processes to control the building’s operations¾including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security, and other systems.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Adam Aziz, Technology Investment Banking Analyst at DAI Magister, explains how the emerging technology can improve energy efficiency and pave the way to net zero. Digital twin technology has a pivotal role to play in enabling our path to net zero by tackling the core problem, our consumption of energy, at the source.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 4, 2023

Out of the 32 corporations with substantial construction or development activities, a mere five (16%) - have a net-zero target that encompasses the in-use emissions of delivered structures. The post CDP: Building Sector Dangerously Behind on Climate Progress appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Such projects are on a collision course with the global transition to net-zero emissions by mid-century. Not to mention the growing number of smart buildings, vehicles and other devices that can communicate directly with the grid.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

A significant portion of countries with Cisco operations have established laws and policies around net zero goals. My job is to ask if we can find some partners to help us harness the power of wind turbines so we can bring that power to the building’s IDF closet to run systems on the same floor.”. Strategic energy convergence.

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Cisco CSR

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Relevant solutions that FIs are focusing on for reducing their GHG emissions range from hybrid work and remote banking technologies for reducing staff and customer travel, to smart buildings, energy efficient branches, and sustainable data centers that are energy optimized and play a critical role for meeting their GHG emission reduction goals.

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Cisco CSR

JANUARY 20, 2023

Last fiscal year, Cisco set a goal to reach net zero across its value chain by 2040. In September 2021, we set our most ambitious and important goal yet: to reach net zero across our value chain by 2040 by prioritizing deep emissions reductions across all scopes of emissions.

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ESG Today

JULY 6, 2022

The fund will invest in private equity opportunities focusing on technological innovations and businesses which are most critical to the global energy transition to net zero carbon emissions.

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 6, 2022

Next, the IBTech Insight Series is dedicated to intelligent building technologies and will look at how smart buildings can be used to increase energy efficiency and help systems communicate with each other.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

As climate science continues to evolve, we’re committed to working across every area of our business to engage stakeholders with rigor and discipline to do our part in working toward a net-zero future for the world.”.

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Cisco CSR

AUGUST 26, 2022

A significant portion of countries with Cisco operations have established laws and policies around net zero goals. My job is to ask if we can find some partners to help us harness the power of wind turbines so we can bring that power to the building’s IDF closet to run systems on the same floor.”. Strategic energy convergence.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

We have a plan: It is possible to power the world with affordable clean energy , so we are helping to digitize smart grids and smart buildings. It is possible to design out waste , so we are re-building products from used ones. We believe that future is possible, and Cisco can help get us there.

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 21, 2022

Sessions held at the DesignBUILD Theatre, the Design Construction Week Theatre and The Smart Buildings Theatre will be held for free at the MCEC from 10–12 May. The Total Facilities , BE Summit , DesignBUILD and Digital Construction Week series of events is designed to cater to built environment professionals.

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Cisco CSR

JUNE 6, 2022

Last year, Cisco set its “moonshot” goal: To reach net zero emissions by 2040. Here are two sessions highlighting our engineering efforts around sustainability: How Cisco Solutions Can Help Your Journey to Net Zero (INTGEN-1200). This is why we formed a new office within the engineering organization a few months back.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2023

In addition to helping tackle direct emissions we also look at how we can help reduce emissions in other sectors through innovations like Smart Buildings 6. However, if we learn to harness the power of IT wisely, it could become a key enabler for the transition to a net zero world.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

To help every company seize the opportunities of the net-zero transition, the We Mean Business Coalition has launched a new guide, The 4 A’s of Climate Leadership. ConcreteZero launched earlier this year with the aim of replicating the success of SteelZero that helped drum up demand for net-zero steel. .

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

Mirai Solar , based in Mountain View, CA, uses photovoltaic shade screen technology, the Mirai Screen, to provide greenhouses and smart buildings the means to reduce their operational costs and achieve net-zero energy targets. Katie Murphy.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 17, 2023

Bueno’s Smart Building Analytics ingests data from a range of sources to provide rich insights to drive smarter decisions especially related to sustainability. Setmetrics allows rapid energy modelling to be built, to maximise the return on investment across operational and capital spend in buildings.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Other notable players specialise in vibrational energy harvesting, offering compact and efficient solutions tailored to diverse applications or the conversion of mechanical motion into usable energy , targeting solutions for smart buildings and industrial IoT.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 15, 2023

Just as e-mobility is an integral part of a ‘smart’ habitat because the infrastructure and vehicles are all connected, meaning power loads can be managed according to demand, the same applies to smart buildings. Australia is leading the charge on the sustainability front in mining.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JULY 1, 2022

3M is committing to becoming carbon neutral across its global operations by 2050. It expects to be halfway there by 2030 and 80% of the way there by 2040. It will invest $1 billion over 20 years to meet those goals and improve its water efficiency and reduce waste. The post 3M Has Cut its Greenhouse Gases by 71% Over Two Decades.

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CIM

JULY 19, 2022

The importance of people, and how to best interpret and serve this data to them, is of huge importance if complex building owners and managers are to gain maximum value from it. In other words, smart buildings are only as smart as the people who operate them, and how they interpret and use this data is crucial.

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3BL Media

MAY 13, 2024

“And considering we spend 90% of our lives indoors, it is imperative that our buildings protect, support and enhance our health, such as providing clean air to breathe and clean water to drink.”

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 17, 2023

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week include the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act and the Canadian logistics company embarking on a $1 billion vehicle fleet electrification. The post Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 17, 2023 appeared first on We Mean Business Coalition.

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Cisco CSR

APRIL 13, 2022

1 st Place – Energy efficiency in smart buildings. And finally, we are pleased to share that the first-place award goes to Schneider Electric for their intelligent building management solution incorporating Cisco DNA Spaces to drive clear sustainability performance indicators focused on energy efficiency in smart buildings.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

INETTT members in Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam met to share lessons from their country’s Just Energy Transition Partnerships—multilateral funding agreements for the net-zero energy transition. Scaling up climate-smart buildings was only possible because of the collaborative relationships fostered by GBPN.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ralph Torrie, Corporate Knights’ research director, says rising oil prices have stimulated growth in renewables, smart buildings, electric vehicles and other climate solutions, including circular economy measures. NZAM Net-Zero Asset Managers Initiative. NZAO Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance. Methodology.

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