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Finance teams need a crash course in ESG. These organizations can help - Greenbiz (Dec 6) |
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Dec 6 · New regulations, investor demands and environmental realities are forcing finance teams to brush up on best practices for sustainable finance and ESG reporting.
New regulations, investor demands and environmental realities are forcing finance teams to adopt new processes related to sustainable finance and ESG reporting - topics most of them haven’t previously prioritized.
There’s often a steep learning curve associated with that transition. A shortage of ESG-savvy finance professionals will prevent most companies from hiring their way out of this challenge. That’s why more should invest in upskilling existing finance and accounting teams about the subject matter ... | By Nico McCrossan Read more ...
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Has the shared e-scooter industry finally grown up? - Greenbiz (Dec 5) |
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Dec 5 · Despite setbacks, cities are still embracing shared e-scooters to help get people out of cars.
E-scooters in an unidentified location. Source: Unsplash/Jonas Jacobsson
Picture this: You’re cruising on a Bird or Lime or Veo or LINK e-scooter in a protected bike lane built by the abundant profits reaped by the e-scooter industry and shared with the city. You got rid of your car two months ago - it was starting to accumulate dust and parking tickets. Arriving at the light rail station, you park neatly in a brightly painted scooter parking corral. The app lets you know that by taking an e-scooter instead of driving, you diverted a car trip’s worth of GHG emissions. You take ... | By Maylin Tu Read more ...
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Solving the EV charging problem for multi-unit dwellings - Greenbiz (Dec 5) |
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Dec 5 · California startup Orange is targeting a major EV adoption problem - charging in multi-unit dwellings.
Orange's Outlet brings single-family home charging convenience to multi-unit dwellings. Source: Orange
As the EV industry has grown, a number of players have tried to address the lack of available EV charging at multi-unit dwellings. With 44 million renter households in the U.S., the ability to conveniently charge at an apartment building is critical if EVs are to become mainstream.
However, installing charging at multi-unit buildings is still challenging. "The ideal outcome is for each unit in a multi-unit dwelling to have access to a dedicated EV charger,” ... | By Vartan Badalian Read more ...
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Why stocks in the Global South are key to scaling climate solutions - Greenbiz (Dec 5) |
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Dec 5 · The stock market is not a neutral bystander in the climate crisis. Investors and lenders must take action by backing climate solutions companies globally - notably in the Global South.
Carbon Collective's climate solutions stocks database now includes three additional regions: the African Union (AU), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Source: Shutterstock/Sansoen Saengsakaorat
Much has been made of whether and how the stock market can meaningfully support climate action. Because most of the transactions occur in the secondary market, the buying and selling of shares of listed companies ... | By Marilyn Waite Read more ...
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Nature risk reporting lags far behind climate disclosures, CDP finds - Greenbiz (Dec 4) |
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Dec 4 · The CDP calls for more comprehensive environmental risk reporting as hundreds of organizations back ISSB’s sustainability disclosure standards.
Less than half of businesses are providing the CDP data beyond climate risk. Source: Pexels/junior-teixeira
Most companies that disclose data on their climate risks and dependencies are failing to report their impacts on nature, despite growing awareness of the deep links between the global biodiversity and climate crises.
That is the conclusion of a study released by the environmental disclosure platform CDP, which reveals a huge gulf between the level of climate risk data disclosed by companies, and the amount of ... | By Cecilia Keating Read more ...
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Businesses should pay attention to these 5 topics at COP28 - Greenbiz (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · COP28 is oversaturated with events and important conversations. Here’s how business professionals can prioritize.
Graphic courtesy of GreenBiz
COP28 kicked off this week in Dubai, with leaders from around the world gathering to negotiate global climate treaties on issues ranging from carbon markets to climate finance.
With a reported 70,000 attendees and state officials coming and going for the many summits scheduled alongside the U.N. negotiations over the next two weeks, it’s unrealistic to expect to stay abreast of every moment of the annual gathering.
So, I’ve compiled a condensed list of important dialogues and developments that executives, board members ... | By Leah Garden Read more ...
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How Dominion Energy is creating a $9.8 billion road map for offshore wind - Greenbiz (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · Close to $22 billion in U.S. offshore wind projects have been delayed or canceled, but the Virginia utility is moving forward with the largest facility in U.S. waters.
The first turbines for Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project, located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. Courtesy of Dominion Energy
At the end of October, Danish wind giant Ørsted announced that it is canceling its pair of big offshore projects in New Jersey - marking the latest in a series of setbacks for the U.S. industry. That same day, Virginia utility Dominion Energy gained final approval for its $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia project, the largest wind farm planned for U.S. ... | By Leah Garden & Richard Martin Read more ...
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Pay attention to these 5 topics at COP28 - Greenbiz (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · COP28 is oversaturated with events and important conversations. Here’s how business professionals can prioritize.
Sophia Davirro/GreenBiz
COP28 kicked off this week in Dubai, with leaders from around the world gathering to negotiate global climate treaties on issues ranging from carbon markets to climate finance.
With a reported 70,000 attendees and state officials coming and going for the many summits scheduled alongside the U.N. negotiations over the next two weeks, it’s unrealistic to expect to stay abreast of every moment of the annual gathering.
We’ve compiled a condensed list of important dialogues and developments that executives, board members and ... | By Leah Garden Read more ...
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Stripe’s new service lets companies buy into carbon removal projects early - Greenbiz (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · 'Climate Orders’ will let companies pre-order contracts that draw down carbon dioxide emissions
Stripe Climate now includes Climate Orders, a new product that lets businesses pre-order a specific number of carbon removal tons from Frontier’s offtake portfolio.
Stripe launched a service this week that lets companies pre-order "offtake" contracts for carbon removal projects. Climate Orders will be offered to companies that want to generate certificates to offset their emissions. The contracts will fund carbon removal projects vetted by Frontier, the $1 billion buyers group Stripe co-founded with Alphabet, Shopify and Meta.
Climate strategists believe technologies ... | By Heather Clancy Read more ...
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Why regenerative agriculture is only a part of the answer to sustainable food systems - Greenbiz (Nov 30) |
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Nov 30 · No single solution can solve our food and climate challenges.
Regenerative agriculture allows companies to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability while keeping their supply chains, products and profits intact. Source: Shutterstock/William Edge
Regenerative agriculture has slowly but surely taken over the sustainability programs of America’s food corporations. PepsiCo, ADM, Cargill and General Mills are among the big companies encouraging their suppliers to adopt regenerative practices. Those practices are also supported by the U.S. government’s $3.1 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program.
This development has important benefits: Planting ... | By Theresa Lieb Read more ...
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As COP28 begins, let's take stock of corporate climate efforts - Greenbiz (Nov 29) |
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Nov 29 · The latest indicators suggest that companies’ climate ambitions are significantly off-track. But there are signs of hope.
Image by GreenBiz Group
Next week, I'll be in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations climate conference, along with some 70,000 other souls from across the globe. Among the big stories this year: a "global stocktake," U.N.-speak for an accounting by each of the 196 signatory countries to the 2015 Paris Agreement on how well they are doing to keep the worst of the climate crisis in check.
You probably don’t need to spring for a roundtrip ticket to a Middle East oil kingdom to know the answer.
The world is "woefully off track" on 41 of ... | By Joel Makower Read more ...
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Why COP28 is a pivotal moment for climate finance - Greenbiz (Nov 29) |
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Nov 29 · It will require an estimated $4 trillion annually by 2030 to reverse climate change, and the money isn’t flowing fast enough.
Global government and private sector leaders are descending on Dubai as COP28 kicks off. Finding a consensus on how to fix climate finance is high on the conference agenda.
A zero-carbon world isn’t feasible "without major reform of the current financial system," said COP28 President-designate Sultan Al Jaber earlier this year. "However … creating a better climate finance system can catalyze the biggest economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution."
COP28 is taking place at a pivotal moment. Oil and gas majors have continued to ... | By Grant Harrison Read more ...
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How the employee voice can help drive climate action at your company - Greenbiz (Nov 28) |
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Nov 28 · Employees can be internal advocates for bold climate policy.
A growing number of employees are educating themselves to be internal advocates for bold climate policy, urging their influential companies to step up their lobbying efforts. Source: Shutterstock/Lightspring
There’s a renewable power source for driving climate action forward at your company: your employees. According to Kite Insights, 8 out of 10 employees are ready and willing to take action on climate change in their jobs, and 45 percent are ready to go even further and become pioneers of climate action within their teams and functions. And management appears to be listening: In its 2023 CxO Sustainability ... | By Bill Weihl & Deborah McNamara Read more ...
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More than half of companies risk 'net zero greenwash’, report says - Greenbiz (Nov 27) |
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Nov 27 · InfluenceMap calls out a gap between corporations’ climate pledges and lobbying.
Corporate lobbying and climate pledges are often out of sync, according to InfluenceMap. Source: Shutterstock/Alexkava
Companies are undermining their net zero climate pledges with corporate lobbying and trade association memberships, a new report from the London nonprofit InfluenceMap warns.
The report evaluated 293 companies from the Forbes Global 2000 list and found that, among those with a net-zero emissions or similar climate target, 58 percent were at risk of "net zero greenwash" due to the disconnect between their targets and their lobbying against climate action.
The ... | By Meg Wilcox Read more ...
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Behind Amazon’s plan to restore 4 billion liters of water - Greenbiz (Nov 22) |
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Nov 22 · Amazon is investing in 13 international water restoration projects in a quest to become 'water positive’ by 2030.
At the confluence of the Umatilla and Columbia rivers in eastern Oregon, water winds through the town of Umatilla’s neighborhoods. An irrigation canal is fed by cleansed cooling water straight from a nearby AWS data center. The water is used to grow the corn, soybeans and wheat for which the region is famous. Source: Amazon/Noah Berger
Amazon Web Services’ latest water replenishment initiatives will return an estimated 1.5 billion liters of freshwater to basins in five countries annually, the company said last week.
According to Will Hewes, the ... | By Heather Clancy Read more ...
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Could 2023 be the year global emissions peak? - Greenbiz (Nov 22) |
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Nov 22 · Global greenhouse gas emissions could peak this year, but what needs to happen to ensure an era of rapid decarbonization swiftly follows?
Smokestack emissions at an unidentified location. Source: Pexels/ron rov
Some better news on the global response to the climate crisis, at last. An analysis out this morning calculates a 70 percent chance that global greenhouse emissions will start falling in 2024 - which would make 2023 the year emissions peaked.
Climate Analytics, a science and policy institute based in Berlin, has produced an analysis that offers a timely dose of optimism following the latest wave of pre-COP reports confirming that global emissions are still ... | By Cecilia Keating Read more ...
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ExxonMobil’s $10 billion plan to boost plastics production in China - Greenbiz (Nov 22) |
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Nov 22 · A new climate agreement with the U.S. disregards China’s plans to increase plastics production.
According to a 2019 OECD report, China recycled only 13 percent of its plastic waste, with the rest ending up incinerated, buried in landfills or discarded as litter. Source: Shutterstock/Creative Lab
In the Sunnylands Statement, a joint statement on climate from the United States and China released Nov. 14, both countries declared their determination "to end plastic pollution." A major barrier to achieving that outcome, however, is under construction in China’s Guangdong Province.
The world’s largest plastic producer is partnering with ExxonMobil on a multibillion ... | By Leah Garden Read more ...
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Here's a 'significant step' to halve food waste by 2030 - Greenbiz (Nov 22) |
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Nov 22 · New data from the Consumer Goods Forum is designed to help tackle the industry's food waste mountain.
Fresh fruit inside of a plastic bag. Source: Pexels/anna shvets
The Consumer Goods Forum has created its first baseline dataset for its members' food waste, in an exercise that has been hailed a "significant step" forward for the industry's efforts to halve food waste by 2030
A report published last week by the business coalition notes that 16 of the retail and manufacturing firms in the group produced 2.12 million tonnes of food waste in 2021, with retailers responsible for 929,000 tonnes and manufacturers producing 1.19 million of waste.
The data is ... | By Cecilia Keating Read more ...
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The green skills gap is widening - Greenbiz (Nov 21) |
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Nov 21 · 4.7 million more people were employed in clean energy in 2022 than in 2019, according to the IEA. But that's not enough.
A worker sprays cellulose insulation. Source: Shutterstock/Kurteev Gennadii
The number of people employed in the energy sector is growing fast, as demand for solar, wind and other clean energy technologies has soared in all regions of the world.
Data published last week by the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals that more than 67 million people were employed in the energy sector in 2022, an increase of 3.4 million on 2019 levels.
The report confirms that clean energy sectors powered the growth in energy industry jobs, with the ... | By Cecilia Keating & Michael Holder Read more ...
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What Solugen’s new factory means for the future of green chemicals - Greenbiz (Nov 20) |
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Nov 20 · Houston-based Solugen just announced plans for its second sustainable molecule factory. Here’s why you should be paying attention.
Bioforge 2, Solugen’s second commercial facility, marks the beginning of a new era for the chemicals industry. Image courtesy of Solugen
The $5 trillion global chemicals sector is a foundation of our modern economy. It’s also the largest industrial consumer of oil and gas and has the third-largest carbon footprint. Propped up by decades of inefficient, energy intensive and dirty processes, the chemicals industry is under intense pressure to clean up its act.
Founded seven years ago, Houston-based Solugen has developed a process that ... | By Tom Howarth Read more ...
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CDP ranks 'A List' cities for transparency and climate performance - Greenbiz (Nov 17) |
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Nov 17 · CDP names 119 cities as leaders in environmental action and transparency in 2023.
The city of Can Tho, Vietnam. Source: Shutterstock/Huy Thoai
More than one in 10 urban areas scored by the world's leading environmental disclosure platform have received its highest possible "A" rating this week, highlighting how leading cities are embedding climate action across their operations.
Of the 939 cities reporting through the CDP platform and ranked in its sixth annual Cities A List, 119 were cited as leaders in environmental action and transparency for 2023 - with top ranking authorities boasting up to four times as many mitigation and adaptation actions as non-A List cities. | By Stuart Stone Read more ...
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Crocs is taking its used shoes back in 10 states. Here's why - Greenbiz (Nov 17) |
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Nov 17 · Shoemaker Crocs wants to keep old shoes out of landfills and reclaim materials that could be used in new products.
Rather than randomly assigning takeback locations on a nationwide basis, Crocs picked 10 states that represent a cross-section of attitudes about climate change. Source: Crocs
Crocs launched a program in October to take back used shoes in 10 U.S. states, to keep old footwear out of landfills and explore new ways to reuse the material.
It’s a big opportunity. An estimated 22 billion pairs of shoes are thrown out annually while roughly the same number are produced, according to industry stats. The fashion and apparel sector contributes about 8 percent of ... | By Heather Clancy Read more ...
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Crocs wants your old shoes back. Here’s what it plans to do with them - Greenbiz (Nov 17) |
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Nov 17 · Shoemaker Crocs wants to keep old shoes out of landfills and reclaim materials that could be used in new products.
Rather than randomly assigning takeback locations on a nationwide basis, Crocs picked 10 states that represent a cross-section of attitudes about climate change. Source: Crocs
Crocs launched a program in October to take back used shoes in 10 U.S. states, to keep old footwear out of landfills and explore new ways to reuse the material.
It’s a big opportunity. An estimated 22 billion pairs of shoes are thrown out annually while roughly the same number are produced, according to industry stats. The fashion and apparel sector contributes about 8 percent of ... | By Heather Clancy Read more ...
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14 training resources for designing circularity into business models and products - Greenbiz (Nov 16) |
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Nov 16 · Learn how to apply circular economy principles at your organization - whether you’re starting from scratch or reimagining the status quo.
Editor’s note: This is part of a series on closing the sustainability skills gap with the resources we have available right now. Read the previous articles in this series, which cover training on climate literacy, scaling corporate climate literacy, corporate sustainability strategy, measuring and managing GHG emissions, climate and net-zero strategy and regenerative agriculture.
If you studied sustainability in school or have even a casual interest in the circular economy, you’ve almost certainly heard of Interface, a carpet company ... | By Trish Kenlon Read more ...
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Building relationships with Indigenous peoples: A 5-step guide for companies - Greenbiz (Nov 16) |
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Nov 16 · Here are recommendations on how to rethink your corporate Indigenous partnerships to protect biodiversity and the climate.
The importance of Indigenous perspectives in mitigating the biodiversity crisis was a focal point at Bloom 23 last month - including during a keynote conversation featuring (from left) Reno Franklin of PG&E, Mary Jane Melendez of General Mills, Bonnie Lei of RMI and Margaret O'Gorman of Wildlife Habitat Council. Burgundy Visuals for GreenBiz
It’s been almost a year since the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted at COP15 in Montreal. A third of the GBF’s targets cited respecting Indigenous peoples and including them in ... | By Theresa Lieb Read more ...
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Petro-aggression and the energy transition - Greenbiz (Nov 16) |
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Nov 16 · Azerbaijan’s conflict with Armenia provides a case study of how oil and gas-fueled aggression can impede the energy transition. Here’s what corporations can do about that.
Oilfield infrastructure in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Source: Unsplash/Orkhan Farmanli
In the wake of its brutal war in Ukraine, as of Sept. 5, Russia’s natural gas exports had fallen to 21 billion cubic meters, two-thirds lower than last year and six times lower than in 2021.
The EU has responded by upping its renewable energy strategy while seeking alternative sources to help meet its natural gas demands in the meantime. Azerbaijan (a part of the former Soviet Union) is one of those ... | By Vartan Badalian Read more ...
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The US/China climate agreement: 5 takeaways for business leaders - Greenbiz (Nov 16) |
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Nov 16 · With geopolitical tensions high and the stakes for the global environment rising, the countries reached the starting point for a path forward on mitigating the climate crisis.
Earlier this week, the United States and China released their first joint climate agreement since 2021, reigniting the possibility of cooperation between the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses. Full of promising language but light on specifics, the so-called "Sunnylands Statement" renews superpower cooperation, at least potentially, heading into COP 28 in Dubai.
The agreement represents "more of a political gesture of positive intent rather than an action plan," said Taylah Bland, ... | By Leah Garden Read more ...
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A climate solution disguised as an administrative decision - Greenbiz (Nov 15) |
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Nov 15 · Companies are increasingly focused on their financial carbon footprint. Choosing a sustainable insurance provider can provide an overlooked lever for change.
A company’s choice of insurance provider is consequential for climate impact, given that fossil fuel extraction and use is the primary source of global CO2 emissions. Image via Shutterstock/Nightman1965
Tackling the climate crisis requires companies and financial institutions to pull every change-making lever in reach. But not all levers are as shiny as capturing carbon and water from thin air or raising multi-billion-dollar funds.
Some, such as a company's choice of insurance provider, reveal impactful ... | By Grant Harrison Read more ...
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Does a 'clean' label for nuclear power undercut renewables? - Greenbiz (Nov 14) |
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Nov 14 · Critics fear a clean energy standard that includes nuclear power would threaten solar and wind.
Seabrook Station nuclear plant near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Climate and clean energy advocates in New Hampshire say a pending proposal to define nuclear power as clean energy could undercut solar and wind power in the state.
Though the details are still in the works, state Rep. Michael Vose, chair of the legislature’s science, technology, and energy committee, is drafting a bill that would allow nuclear power generators, such as New Hampshire’s Seabrook Station, to receive payments for contributing clean energy to the ... | By Sarah Shemkus Read more ...
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Climate tech investing surges in the third quarter - Greenbiz (Nov 13) |
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Nov 13 · After a slow start to the year, funding in climate tech startups returns to the financial highs of 2021’s bull market.
2023’s third quarter disrupted the trend of slowing investment in the climate tech sector. A total of $16.6 billion was invested in Q3, according to a recently released BloombergNEF analysis, due largely to interest in decarbonization and low-carbon startups. According to the report, this is the highest quarterly funding in climate tech since Q4 of 2021.
Total climate tech funding in the first half of 2023 peaked at $13.1 billion, a full 40 percent less than the same time period in 2022, according to CTVC. This dip worried the venture community, with ... | By Leah Garden Read more ...
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The current state of climate tech investing is trending up - Greenbiz (Nov 13) |
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Nov 13 · After a slow start to the year, funding in climate tech startups returns to the financial highs of 2021’s bull market.
2023’s third quarter disrupted the trend of slowing investment in the climate tech sector. A total of $16.6 billion was invested in Q3, according to a recently released BloombergNEF analysis, due largely to interest in decarbonization and low-carbon startups. According to the report, this is the highest quarterly funding in climate tech since Q4 of 2021.
Total climate tech funding in the first half of 2023 peaked at $13.1 billion, a full 40 percent less than the same time period in 2022, according to CTVC. This dip worried the venture community, with ... | By Leah Garden Read more ...
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Emissions keep rising among world's biggest meat and dairy producers - Greenbiz (Nov 9) |
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Nov 9 · Urgent policy is needed to combat this trend, according to an analysis led by the FAIRR investor network.
Illustration of a pair of dairy cows. Source: Shutterstock/Olga Rai
A $70 trillion-backed investor group has called for an "urgent" policy focus on accelerating climate action across the global food and agriculture sector at the upcoming COP28 Climate Summit, after fresh data underscored how greenhouse gas emissions from the world's largest meat and dairy producers are still on the rise.
The FAIRR network of investors analysed the emissions data disclosed by 20 of the largest listed meat and dairy firms worldwide last year, together accounting for $295 billion ... | By Michael Holder Read more ...
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Filling this 'forgotten element of the energy transition is critical to net zero - Greenbiz (Nov 9) |
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Nov 9 · The pipeline of investable renewable energy and low carbon infrastructure projects in developing nations needs to be up to nine times larger, warns the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
A wind turbine at a magical hour. Source: Pexels/jonas von werne
An "alarming shortage" of clean energy and low carbon infrastructure projects in developing countries and emerging markets poses a major threat to meeting the global climate goals contained in the Paris Agreement, fresh research has warned.
Delivering on global climate finance goals requires a 30 percent increase in the number of low carbon projects that can attract private investment in developing nations by the ... | By Michael Holder Read more ...
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Finding the right message for taking the sustainability movement mainstream - Greenbiz (Nov 9) |
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Nov 9 · How to use the power of advertising for the fight against climate change.
Advertising helped form the culture of consumerism that fueled the Industrial Revolution and our modern dependence on fossil fuels. Many of the same advertising strategies are being used to sell products and services that reduce that dependence. As the sustainability movement matures from the anti-establishment ethos of its origins in the 1960s and '70s to the more mainstream movement of today, the message and values behind what it means to be sustainable are also evolving.
At VERGE 23 last month, I spoke with Simon White, an altruistic advertising professional, about the techniques advertisers use ... | By James Ball Read more ...
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Why leading VCs are rethinking their food investments - Greenbiz (Nov 9) |
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Nov 9 · Funding for innovation in food and agriculture systems is due for a reality check after years of startup overvaluation.
In his keynote presentation at VERGE 23, Shayle Kann, a partner at Energy Impact Partners, described climate tech investing as a wave: Either you are building a wave or you are riding one. Over the last five years, the secluded surf spot known only to agrifood specialist investors was overrun with the generalist venture capitalists looking to catch the next big wave.
But then the macroeconomic tides shifted - 85 food and beverage companies filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. in the first half of 2023 - and venture capitalists got spooked.
Total ... | By Seth Olson Read more ...
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Digitizing the path to decarbonization - Greenbiz (Nov 7) |
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Nov 7 · Sponsored: To drive climate action, we must move fast and move together - and we can do so by combining the real and the digital worlds.
Siemens technology powers the Javits Center's green transformation. Image courtesy of Siemens.
This article is sponsored by Siemens.
Looking toward the upcoming climate talks at COP28, businesses across the globe are focusing on the shared responsibility of climate action. To drive it, we must move fast and together - something that more companies and communities are doing by committing to net zero.
At Siemens, our net-zero journey started in 2015, before we had all the answers to the many tough questions about ... | By Matt Helgeson Read more ...
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Listen up, utilities: The EV industry is telling you what it needs - Greenbiz (Nov 7) |
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Nov 7 · Utility queuing challenges, standardizing charging equipment and improving financing mechanisms are driving the conversation on EVs.
Key electric vehicle (EV) industry stakeholders convened during several workshops and sessions at VERGE 23 to discuss how to advance fleet electrification. Here are three concepts and solutions shared during the event.
Whether it was during the three-hour tutorial Fleet Electrification: Best Practices for Effective Adoption, the session Charging Depots: Meeting Fleets in the Moment, or the two-hour workshop Bypassing Roadblocks To Zero Emissions Trucking: A Medium- and Heavy-Duty Fleet Decarbonization Workshop, discussions on the single ... | By Vartan Badalian Read more ...
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4 best practices for using AI to reduce carbon emissions - Greenbiz (Nov 2) |
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Nov 2 · Deploying artificial intelligence applications to cut greenhouse gases requires deep planning and prep work.
On Oct. 19, a congressional subcommittee heard testimony about the role artificial intelligence could play across the energy industry - from the discovery of new generation sources to better predictions for electricity demand. The tone was generally optimistic.
Using AI, "utilities will be able to utilize its benefits for maintaining or improving safety, affordability, efficiency and environmentally friendly energy production," said Jeremy Renshaw, senior technical executive for AI, quantum and nuclear innovation at the Electric Power Research Institute.
The ... | By Heather Clancy Read more ...
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How Google tackles food waste - Greenbiz (Nov 2) |
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Nov 2 · Michiel Bakker makes Google a magical place to work. Here’s his advice on food waste.
Cafeteria in the Google Canada Kitchener-Waterloo office building. Image via Shutterstock/JHVEPhoto.
Google serves 150,000 lunches to its staff on a good day (in a post-pandemic remote world, the good days are usually Wednesdays). And it has been a leader in dealing with that food in a sustainable way for many years. The company, which joined the Food Waste Action Plan in 2021, has a goal to halve its food waste by 2025 and send zero food waste to landfills by the same date.
Michiel Bakker, head of global workplace programs at the tech giant, came to Google in 2012. He launched ... | By Jesse Klein Read more ...
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Apple, Nike and others push Asian suppliers to buy clean energy - Greenbiz (Nov 1) |
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Nov 1 · The Clean Energy Procurement Academy will fund training for supply chain partners in Asia Pacific countries where renewable power is tougher to source.
Heyuan Queyashan Wind Farm in Guangdong, China. Image via Shutterstock/Maple 90
A group of global companies including Apple, Nike and PepsiCo have launched the Clean Energy Procurement Academy to train supply chain partners in the Asia Pacific, where renewable power is tougher to source.
Over the past five years, big corporations have signed contracts to buy 148 gigawatts of clean energy, with the aim of slashing their Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions (the most direct form of carbon dioxide production). ... | By Heather Clancy Read more ...
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