Sponsored: Any credible corporate net-zero target requires a focus on the decarbonization of supply chains – with collaboration a key driver of change.
Scientists say a rise in global temperatures beyond 1.5°C by the end of the century will cause catastrophic climate-changing events around the world. Sadly, temperatures are on pace to rise 2.7° C by the end of the century if major climate action doesn’t happen.
In the last year, a wave of companies have committed to “net zero.” But what does being a net zero business mean in practice? There isn’t yet an agreed-upon standard; in the fervor to get going, some are misusing the term.
Mark Carney, former Bank of England chief and now advisor to Boris Johnson, is pushing the global financial sector to move assets into climate-friendly activities.
The industries that make up the zero-emission vehicles sector — infrastructure providers, automakers, mobility startups — are one of the sectors that could gain the most from the Biden win.
Managers from the Walmart, Anheuser-Busch, the city of Seattle and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey talk strategy during the VERGE 20 virtual conference.
