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October 8, 2020

Corporate America stepping up to the carbon challenge

3 min read - “Awareness is rapidly changing, and I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance. The evidence on climate risk is compelling investors to reassess core assumptions about modern finance.”  — Larry Fink, Blackrock CEO in the New York Times Climate change is an urgent global challenge and must be addressed with a variety of solutions and at many scales. One of those solutions put forth in 2016 is the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change…

September 29, 2020

Climate action urgency from Bill Gates

2 min read - In early August, Bill Gates released a blog that reads more like a call to climate action. "COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse" explains the parallels between the global crisis of COVID-19 and the potential future crisis of climate change. Gates isn’t shy about predicting some scary effects of coronavirus and draws parallels to the threat of climate change, addressing human, environmental and economic impacts. This multi-pronged set of challenges is intimidating, but the threats described in his blog are…

September 23, 2020

The pathway to carbon reduction

6 min read - Corporations are taking the lead in addressing the climate crisis. BP will achieve net zero by 2050, Apple will be carbon neutral by 2030 and Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030. You may be wondering how companies choose between pledge platforms: how do they decide whether they want to aim for net zero or carbon neutral? How are these companies setting and achieving these targets? Perhaps it’s time my organization set an ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction target? There’s no single solution, and…

September 4, 2020

Energy benchmarking for portfolios of small to medium sites

3 min read - As a senior executive with responsibility for a geographically spread building portfolio of sites, the absence of relative performance data makes it difficult to take anything but a tactical approach to energy management. Senior executives with responsibility for extensive portfolios of small to medium sites are under constant pressure to reduce operating costs, meet emissions reduction goals and deliver efficiency gains. They know there are opportunities for improvement, but they have no way of comparing their buildings, understanding where to…

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