SCS Technologies Commits to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050
Some of these strategies include installing solar panels to power the company’s fabrication shops and offices, switching to EV fleets, and recycling more.
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Carbon Growth Partners Reopens Second Offset Fund
This framework ensures the quality, integrity, and positive environmental and social outcomes of the investments while striving for equitable benefit sharing with local communities.
UN Strengthens Environmental Governance to Reduce Carbon Footprint
The UN is intensifying its efforts towards making its buildings and operations more environmentally and socially sustainable as it works to battle the effects of the triple planetary crisis.
Stella McCartney Helps Launch New Sustainable Fashion UN Charter
Fashion designer Stella McCartney plans to announce a new United Nations fashion industry charter for climate action in early December.
UN Report: Why Private Sector’s Use of Hydrogen a Possible Bright Light in Coal Phase-Out
The rest of the industrialized world should consider following the lead of the UK and Canada’s environment ministers to phase out unabated coal by 2025 and 2030, respectively. However, it does not seem realistic that similar action will be taken in
Largest Seafood Companies Assessed Against Sustainable Development Goals
The World Benchmarking Alliance plans to assess the 30 largest seafood companies globally against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A public evaluation of their draft methodology takes place now through December.
China Ditches Pilot Phase of UN Agency’s Aviation Emissions Scheme
China is no longer listed as a participant in the first phase of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). The UN agency International Civil Aviation Organization had recently made progress on the plan.
Shipping Industry Agrees To Historic Global Emissions Cut
International Maritime Organization member nations agreed to reduce total annual global shipping greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels.
Can the Shipping Industry Change Course on Energy?
More than 150 shipping industry leaders from around the world met recently in Bonn for the UN Climate Change Conference. Gathering aboard the MS RheinFantasie river cruise ship, the participants discussed topics like alternative fuels, new technologies, and improved energy efficiency. They want to create business-focused strategies for quick decarbonization and ... Read more »
UN Report: Lack of Funding Hampers Sustainable Energy Access in Least Developed Countries
Lack of funding is the biggest hurdle facing the 47 least developed countries in the world as they try to reach sustainability targets, the United Nations reported. The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) identifies ... Read more »
Desalination is Helping San Diego Avert Drought. Is the Technology Useful Elsewhere?
San Diego County has long faced drought conditions. But a new desalination plant has changed all that, allowing the area to get 50 million gallons of fresh drinking water everyday, or enough to serve 400,000 people and 10 percent of the area's population.
Sustainable Development Goals: Why Business Should Care
In September more than 190 world countries adopted the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim to tackle climate change, provide clean water and end poverty, among other ambitious targets, by 2030. On Jan. 1 the SDGs will replace the millennium development goals as the new global goals to ... Read more »