Companies vow to be carbon neutral by 2030

mood · Jul 21, 2020

Apple Plans to Become 100 Percent Carbon Neutral by 2030
July 21, 2020
https://wccftech.com/apple-plans-to-become-100-percent-carbon-neutral-by-2030/

Apple has announced its commitment to become 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030. The company is already carbon neutral for its global corporate emissions.

The company released its 2020 Environmental Progress Report today in which it shared its plan to reduce emissions by 75% by 2030 and the development of carbon removal solutions for the remaining 25% emissions. The company's aim is to ensure that every Apple product sold by 2030 will have zero impact on the environment.

The company has also laid outs its 10-year roadmap in its announcement in which it will be focusing on the following aspects of product development and recycling, some of which are listed below: [...]
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Apple: Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030

xxJackxx · Jul 21, 2020

They could probably make some progress on this by releasing a device that can be used for a longer period of time instead of releasing new models twice every year.

mood · Jul 21, 2020

Microsoft unveils new sustainability steps in effort to remove all carbon produced in company history
July 21, 2020
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/micro...ffort-remove-carbon-produced-company-history/

Microsoft unveiled a new suite of sustainability initiatives Tuesday as part of its effort to zero-out the carbon debt the company has accrued over its lifespan.

Microsoft pledged in January to become carbon negative by 2030 and remove more carbon than the company has put into the atmosphere since it launched by 2050. As part of Tuesday’s announcement,
The latest announcements include the largest single renewable energy investment Microsoft has ever made. The company is investing in 500 megawatts of renewable energy from Sol Systems, equivalent to the energy needed to power more than 70,000 homes in the U.S. per year.

Microsoft is also unveiling a new Sustainability Calculator of cloud customers to help them understand the carbon emissions generated by their cloud usage. The calculator uses AI and analytics to advise users on ways to reduce their carbon footprint and predict future emissions.
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Though Microsoft has launched one of corporate America’s most aggressive climate change initiates, other big tech companies are following suit. Apple said Tuesday that it will ensure every product it sells will have a net-zero impact on global warming within 10 years, Axios reports.
Microsoft plans to remove 1 million metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere this year, and on Tuesday the company opened a request for proposals “to source that carbon removal from a range of nature- and technology-based solutions.”
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Microsoft: Progress on our goal to be carbon negative by 2030

mood · Jul 22, 2020

Boost towards carbon neutrality
July 22, 2020
https://koztimes.com/boost-towards-carbon-neutrality/17550/

From Apple to Microsoft to Nike, Mercedes, and Danone, a number of multinational corporations have presented to you on Tuesday of initiatives intended to combat climate change and encourage other companies to follow their example.
Private company the most expensive in the world in Exchange, Apple has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030 and all of its activities, including its supply chain.

Nine other multinational companies led by the it group american Microsoft, for their part, engaged in a coalition whose stated aim is “to enable all companies to achieve a carbon-neutral” by 2050.
Called the “Transform to Net Zero,” this initiative brings together, for the moment, the carrier Danish AP Moller-Maersk, the american chain Starbucks, the groups of agri-food French Danone and anglo-Dutch Unilever, the German automaker Mercedes-Benz, the brazilian group of cosmetics Natura & Co, the global sports apparel american Nike, as well as the group of consultancy in computer science indian Wipro.
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Companies do, however, provide no details about the projects or investments that they could defend themselves, indicating only want to finish their work by 2025.
Amazon, for example, has promised in the beginning of the year to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040 and its boss, Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has created a fund “for the Earth” that he personally has $ 10 billion.

“The gap between where we are on climate change and where we need to be continuing to widen. As the gap between the companies that do that talk about actions and those who actually do the work “, noticed the president of the american association Environmental Defense Fund, Fred Krupp, who accompanied the coalition presented Tuesday.
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mood · Aug 5, 2020

Microsoft aims for 'zero waste' in operations, products, and packaging by 2030
This effort builds on Microsoft's goal to go carbon negative in its operations by 2030
August 4, 2020
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-aims-zero-waste-operations-products-and-packaging-2030

Microsoft has been vocal about its environmental initiatives in recent years, and it announced a new one today. The company now plans to achieve "zero waste" in its direct operations, products, and packaging by 2030. Microsoft president Brad Smith outlined the details of this plan in a new blog post.

This work builds on Microsoft's goal to go carbon negative in its operations, announced earlier this year. That initiative is expected to eliminate the equivalent of all of Microsoft's past carbon emmissions since its founding by 2050. In July, Microsoft also announced a new coalition to spur movement to a net zero carbon economy.
Microsoft isn't alone among tech giants in its moves to be more environmentally conscious. Apple is famously vocal about its environmental efforts, and even individual PC manfuacturers, such as HP, have made sustainability a major focus.
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Whether Microsoft will achieve its targets in the timeframe set forth remains to be seen.
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Microsoft: Microsoft commits to achieve ‘zero waste’ goals by 2030

We recognize the urgent need to protect the world’s ecosystems and reduce the carbon emissions that come from the creation, distribution and disposal of waste. That’s why we’re announcing today our goal to achieve zero waste for Microsoft’s direct operations, products and packaging by 2030.
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mood · Sep 14, 2020

Google claims net zero carbon footprint over its entire lifetime, aims to only use carbon-free energy by 2030
September 14, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/g...-aims-to-only-use-carbon-free-energy-by-2030/

Google was at the leading edge of large technology companies seeking to go completely carbon neutral, having declared that status in 2007, and subsequently matching all of its global electricity consumption with renewable energy. Now the company says that it is breaking new ground by becoming the first major company to effectively eliminate its entire carbon footprint — going back to its founding — something it has achieved through purchase of “high-quality carbon offsets” as of today. Further, it’s also setting a goal of employing only carbon-free sources by 2030.

The first achievement — eliminating its overall carbon footprint — is relatively easily achieved simply by spending a lot of cash. Google didn’t share exactly how much it had purchased in carbon offsets, but the idea behind those is that you could buy support of projects including renewable energy or energy efficiency initiatives or projects to offset your own impact.
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Meanwhile, Google is taking on the much more challenging task of moving toward running its entire business on carbon-free energy sources everywhere it operates, 100% of the time.

To commit to directly using only carbon-free energy all the time across its entire operations therefore means a huge undertaking, which will require the actual development of new clean-energy sources. Google also says it’ll be helping to bring 5 GW of new carbon-free energy sources online by 2030 across regions where it has physical resources that need access to clean power.
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Google (CEO Sundar Pichai): Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free future

We are committed to doing our part. Sustainability has been a core value for us since Larry and Sergey founded Google two decades ago. We were the first major company to become carbon neutral in 2007.
In our third decade of climate action, we are going even further to help build a carbon-free future for everyone. Here’s how: [...]
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mood · Sep 15, 2020

Facebook and Google announce plans to become carbon neutral
Firms join Apple and Microsoft in committing to put no excess carbon into the atmosphere
September 15, 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...d-google-announce-plans-become-carbon-neutral

Facebook and Google are becoming carbon neutral businesses, joining competitors Apple and Microsoft in committing to put no excess carbon into the atmosphere, both companies have independently announced.
But the details of the two companies’ ambitions differs greatly.

Facebook has also announced a further goal for itself, committing to net-zero emissions for its entire “value chain” by 2030, including its suppliers and users.

“Over the next decade, Facebook will work to reduce carbon emissions from our operations and value chain,” the company said in a blogpost, “including by working with suppliers on their own goals, helping the development of new carbon removal technologies and making our facilities as efficient as possible.”
Both companies’ claims follow similar announcements from Apple and Microsoft.
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TechCrunch: Facebook launches a climate change information center and commits to eliminating ‘scope 3’ emissions by 2030

Even as Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, admits that climate change “is real” and that “the science is unambiguous and the need to act grows more urgent by the day” the platform appears unwilling to take steps to really stand up to the climate change denialism that circulates on its platform.

The company is set to achieve net zero carbon emissions and be supported fully by renewable energy in its own operations this year.
But as the corporate world slaps a fresh coat of green paint on its business practices, Facebook is looking to get out in front with the launch of a Climate Science Information Center to “connect people with science-based information”.

The center is designed to connect people to factual and up-to-date climate information, according to the company.
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Facebook: Stepping Up the Fight Against Climate Change

mood · Sep 23, 2020

CyrusOne goes public with pledge to become carbon-neutral provider by 2040
September 23, 2020
https://www.computerweekly.com/news...dge-to-become-carbon-neutral-provider-by-2040

CyrusOne has become the latest colocation giant to set out plans to cut the carbon emissions generated by its global datacentre portfolio.

The company, which operates more than 50 datacentres across the world, has publicly committed to becoming a carbon-neutral organisation by 2040 to ensure the continued growth of the business does not come at the expense of the environment.
To this point, CyrusOne said it plans to ramp up the amount of renewable energy it uses to power its facilities, while embarking on a series of sustainability-focused equipment upgrades across its existing sites, while ensuring any new builds are designed with energy efficiency in mind.
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These initiatives will be followed up with the publication of CyrusOne’s first ever Sustainability report in October 2020, the company confirmed.

“Making a pledge to become carbon neutral within the next 20 years is an important milestone in our mission to increase our global sustainability efforts, and help customers toward their sustainability goals,” he said.
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News of CyrusOne’s carbon reduction commitment follows on from the announcement by fellow colocation Digital Realty in May 2020 about its plans to double-down on sustainability by embarking on a wide-ranging body of work geared towards cutting its emissions by 2030.
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mood · Sep 23, 2020

Amazon launches climate-friendly programme to help shop for sustainable products
Last year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had pledged to make the company net carbon neutral by 2040
September 23, 2020
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tec...-for-sustainable-products-71600855618925.html

Amazon.com Inc, the world's biggest online retailer, announced the launch of a climate-friendly programme on Wednesday to help customers shop for sustainable products, as part of its commitment to be net carbon neutral by 2040.

Customers will now see more than 25,000 products ranging from grocery, household, fashion, beauty and personal electronics with a 'Climate Pledge Friendly' label, Amazon said in a statement.

"With 18 external certification programmes and our own Compact by Design certification, we're incentivizing selling partners to create sustainable products that help protect the planet for future generations," Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said.
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Last year, Bezos had pledged to make Amazon net carbon neutral by 2040 - the first major corporation to announce such a goal - and to buy 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from U.S. vehicle design and manufacturing startup Rivian Automotive LLC.
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Amazon: Amazon launches "Climate Pledge Friendly" program

Amazon is launching Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to help make it easy for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products. Customers will now see the Climate Pledge Friendly label when searching for more than 25,000 products to signify that the products have one or more of 19 different sustainability certifications that help preserve the natural world, such as reducing the carbon footprint of shipments to customers.
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reasonablePrivacy · Sep 27, 2020

Newsom Attempts To Mandate Full Transition to Electric Cars by 2035

Maybe California will figure out how to keep the lights on by then.
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monkeylove · Sep 28, 2020

Most companies involved are for-profit and competing, which means they want more production and sales each time. That also means they have to become more efficient each time or will have to create more carbon and offset it.

mood · Nov 3, 2020

OVHcloud doubles down on sustainability with carbon reduction pledges
November 3, 2020
https://www.computerweekly.com/news...-sustainability-with-carbon-reduction-pledges

French infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider OVHcloud has become the latest provider to publicly commit to curbing its carbon emissions by ramping up its use of renewable energy and improving the design of its datacentres.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) challenger used the first day of its virtual, three-day OVHcloud Ecosystem Experience event to reinforce its commitment to running its datacentres and wider business operations in a more environmentally friendly way.
As such, the company has set itself a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025 by powering its facilities with a “pure renewable energy mix” and is working towards generating net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

“Because we assemble our own servers, we know and we can calculate and report the full lifecycle emission of our operations, including the manufacturing phase of our devices, and we want to reduce and compensate this by 2030.”
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mood · Nov 23, 2020

Vodafone to have have net zero carbon emissions by 2040
November 23, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/vodafone-to-have-have-net-zero-carbon-emissions-by-2040

Vodafone has announced that it will reduce its total global carbon emissions to net zero by 2040. By 2030, it says it aims to eliminate all carbon emissions from its own activities, and by 2040 it’ll eliminate emissions from Scope 3 sources such as joint ventures, supply chain purchases, the use of products it sells and business travel.

According to the firm, it had originally planned to meet the goal by 2050 but under current plans, this is brought forward a decade. This year, its Scope 1 & 2 emissions reached 1.84 million tCO2e, by 2030, this will be reduced by 100%. Its Scope 3 emission reached 11.9 million tCO2e this year and by 2030 will be reduced by 50% before being eliminated entirely in 2040.
Commenting on the plans, Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read, said:

“Vodafone believes in leading by example, so today we have pledged to become fully ‘net zero’ by 2040 and the Science Based Targets initiative has confirmed that our 2030 carbon targets are in line with the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement. [...]”
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Vodafone: Vodafone commits to net zero carbon emissions by 2040

2030 carbon reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative to keep global warming within 1.5°C
By 2030, Vodafone will eliminate all carbon emissions from its own activities and from energy it purchases and uses (Scope 1 and 2). Vodafone also pledged that by 2030 it will halve carbon emissions from Scope 3 sources, including joint ventures, all supply chain purchases, the use of products it has sold and business travel.

By 2040, Vodafone will have eliminated Scope 3 emissions completely - bringing forward by ten years Vodafone’s original 2050 ambition to reach ‘net zero’ across its full carbon footprint.
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Net zero definition
We define net zero as zero carbon emissions achieved by setting a 1.5°C Science Based Target for full value-chain emissions (scope 1, 2, & 3) and sequestrating remaining limited hard-to-decarbonise emissions with certified GGR (Greenhouse Gas Removals).

Carbon neutral definition
Neutral carbon emissions are achieved through a carbon reduction plan (with no precondition of having set a Science Based Target) and remaining emissions are compensated by purchasing carbon offsets that either result in carbon reductions, efficiencies or sinks.
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mood · Dec 2, 2020

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Amazon launches climate-friendly programme to help shop for sustainable products September 23, 2020

Amazon: Amazon launches "Climate Pledge Friendly" program
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Uber, JetBlue join Amazon-backed Climate Pledge
December 2, 2020
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/amazon-climate-pledge-fund-uber-jetblue-13686098

Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday that five companies, including Uber Technologies Inc and JetBlue Airways Corp, have joined its Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040.

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos last year pledged to make the largest U.S. e-commerce company net carbon neutral by 2040, as employees and consumers around the world protested for broader moves to address climate change.

"The transportation sector plays a critical role in accelerating our carbon reduction goals," Bezos said in a statement on Wednesday.
So far 18 companies, including Best Buy Co Inc and Verizon Communications Inc, have signed up for the Climate Pledge, which was established in 2019.
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Amazon: Uber, Rivian, JetBlue, Cabify, and Boom Supersonic join The Climate Pledge

Transportation companies are taking immediate action to reduce their carbon emissions and meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early
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stapp · Dec 3, 2020

Streaming a TV show in old-fashioned standard definition can significantly reduce your carbon emissions, a new report from scientists at the UK’s Royal Society says.
HD video streaming on a phone generates about eight times more in emissions than standard definition (SD), it says.
And, on a small screen, the viewer might not even notice the difference.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55164410

mood · Dec 9, 2020

Microsoft is among the latest companies to join Amazon's The Climate Pledge
December 9, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/microso...-companies-to-join-amazons-the-climate-pledge

Amazon launched The Climate Pledge last year, an initiative where it vowed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years in advance, in 2040. This means reaching net-zero annual carbon emissions, both through a reduction in direct carbon emissions but also through initiatives to neutralize any emissions that remain.

The Pledge has been expanding with more companies, and today, Microsoft has officially joined the fray, along with 12 other companies including Unilever, Coca-Cola European partners, and Atos.
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In addition to launching The Climate Pledge, Amazon recently launched the Climate Pledge Friendly program for its online marketplace. Products that meet certain sustainability certifications will be awarded the Climate pledge Friendly tag, certifying them as an environmentally-friendly purchase.
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Amazon: Unilever, Microsoft, and Brooks are among 13 additional companies to join The Climate Pledge

Thirty-one companies have now joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early.

13 new signatories—Atos, Brooks, Canary Wharf Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, ERM, Groupe SEB France, Harbour Air, ITV, Microsoft, Neste, Rubicon, Unilever, and Vaude—have joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement’s goal of 2050.
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mood · Dec 13, 2020

Tim Cook urges world to move to a 'carbon-neutral economy'
December 12, 2020
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/12/12/tim-cook-urges-un-to-move-to-a-carbon-neutral-economy

Apple CEO Tim Cook used his speech at the UN Climate Ambition Summit to highlight the company's initiatives to be greener, as well as encouraging others to push for a "carbon-neutral economy."

Speaking to the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit on Saturday, Cook says Apple will wear its presence among the group of advocates and leaders attending the summit as "a badge of duty," before warning that everyone "has a particular burden to act" on the environment,
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Mentioning how Apple became carbon neutral for its corporate emissions and assisting 95 of its suppliers to transition to 100% renewable energy, Cook also raises the pledge for Apple to become carbon neutral throughout its entire supply chain and product usage by 2030.

"The choice between the bottom line and the future of our planet is a false one, and each new green innovation offers the proof," Cook said.
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mood · Dec 16, 2020

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Google claims net zero carbon footprint over its entire lifetime, aims to only use carbon-free energy by 2030 September 14, 2020

Google (CEO Sundar Pichai): Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free future
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Google Thinks Data Centers, Armed with Batteries, Should ‘Anchor’ a Carbon-Free Grid
December 16, 2020
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com...rmed-batteries-should-anchor-carbon-free-grid

The Google data center team in St. Ghislain will use lithium-ion batteries instead of a diesel generator as power backup for 3MW of live, production computing load – a first for Google.

Mainly, they hope to demonstrate that a) batteries are a viable replacement for traditional data center backup generators, and b) a data center outfitted with a large-scale energy storage plant can help balance its local electrical grid, Maud Texier, Google’s carbon free energy lead, told us.
The company wants to demonstrate that data centers could “anchor carbon-free electric grids.”
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This is one of the first major steps toward powering Google data centers with renewable energy around the clock, versus matching energy consumption in one location with renewable energy generated elsewhere.
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mood · Jan 28, 2021

GM says it'll be carbon neutral by 2040
General Motors will eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035
January 28, 2021
https://www.techspot.com/news/88452-general-motors-aims-carbon-neutrality-2040.html

In brief: General Motors on Thursday announced plans to become carbon neutral across its products and operations by 2040. Moreover, the largest US automaker said it aspires to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles five years sooner, by 2035.

To realize the latter goal, GM said it will need to work to build out the necessary charging infrastructure and to promote consumer acceptance. The automaker plans to invest $27 billion in electric and autonomous vehicle tech over the next five years, money that’ll be used to help develop its Ultium battery technology and update facilities in Michigan and Tennessee to build EVs.

GM set a target date of 2030 for its US facilities to be running on 100 percent renewable energy, and 2035 for global sites.
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mood · Sep 20, 2021

World’s largest chip foundry TSMC sets 2050 deadline to go carbon neutral
World’s third-largest chipmaker emits more carbon than many countries.
September 20, 2021
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...tsmc-sets-2050-deadline-to-go-carbon-neutral/

The dirty secret of the computing and networking world is that most of its pollution comes not from the electricity used to run the devices, but from the energy and materials used to produce the chips that make it all possible.

In a typical laptop like a MacBook Air, manufacturing represents 74 percent of the device’s lifetime carbon emissions, including shipping, use, and disposal. Of that, about half is from integrated circuits, according to a recent study led by researchers at Harvard. Researchers have found similar trends throughout the industry.

“Chip manufacturing, as opposed to hardware use and energy consumption, accounts for most of the carbon output attributable to hardware systems,” the study’s authors said.
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That footprint may wane in the coming years, though, as TSMC announced last week that it would flatten its emissions growth by 2025 and reach net-zero carbon by 2050.

“TSMC is deeply aware that climate change has a severe impact on the environment and humanity. As a world-leading semiconductor company, TSMC must shoulder its corporate responsibility to face the challenge of climate change,” Chairman Mark Liu said in a statement.
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TSMC: TSMC Commits to Reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050, Acting on Responsibility to Environmental Sustainability

mood · Sep 22, 2021

DuckDuckGo invests in carbon offsets making it carbon negative
September 22, 2021
https://www.neowin.net/news/duckduckgo-invests-in-carbon-offsets-making-it-carbon-negative/

The privacy-focused search engine, DuckDuckGo, has announced that it’s now carbon negative for the years 2008 through 2020 and that it’s committed to offsetting its emissions in the coming years too. It said that it’s offsetting 125% of its upstream and downstream emissions using Gold Standard offsets and it’s giving the same dollar amount through the Stripe Climate Program which is helping to develop carbon removal technology.

Commenting on the initiative, the firm said:

“We're offsetting 125% of our lifetime emissions through programs that not only are rigorously measured, but also continue to have a positive environmental and societal impact year after year. After all that, we're doubling this dollar commitment, using the additional amount to physically remove carbon from the air and advance this important technology for our future.”
DuckDuckGo joins the likes of Google and Ecosia in ensuring they’re not doing more harm than good on the ecological stage. DuckDuckGo’s plans also highlight that there are several different ways that firms can address their ecological footprint in a manner to suit them.
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mood · Nov 1, 2021

Qualcomm plans to produce net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2040
The company wants to halve its direct emissions by 2030.
November 1, 2021
https://www.engadget.com/qualcomm-net-zero-2040-174555511.html

With the UN’s COP26 climate summit now underway, Qualcomm has become the latest company to announce a sustainability pledge. The chipmaker says it will achieve net-zero emissions by 2040. Here’s the roadmap the company laid out. By 2030, Qualcomm says it will reduce its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from base 2020 levels. That same year, it plans to reduce its Scope 3 emissions by 25 percent from where they were in 2020.

According to an estimate from Imec, which recently announced a sustainable chip program involving Apple, approximately 75 percent of the greenhouse emissions tied to a mobile device are produced when it’s made, with almost half coming from the chip fabrication process.
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Notably, that’s where Qualcomm says the least about its sustainability plans. It notes it’s working towards purchasing all of the power it uses at its San Diego headquarters from renewable sources and decarbonizing its operations using a “minimal” amount of Renewable Energy Credits and carbon offsets. That’s not to say the company is trying to greenwash its environmental responsibilities, but there’s a significant difference between making its offices environmentally friendly and doing the same for its supply chain.
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mood · Nov 6, 2021

Airbnb commits to operate as a Net Zero company by 2030
November 6, 2021
https://www.neowin.net/news/airbnb-commits-to-operate-as-a-net-zero-company-by-2030/

Airbnb has announced that it will be operating as a Net Zero company by 2030. The company will work towards this goal by mitigating carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions that are linked with its global corporate operations and putting money into nature-based solutions to neutralize residual emissions.
Airbnb Co-founder and CEO, Brian Chesky stated:

Addressing climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our generation. Committing to Net Zero is the latest action we’re taking to lower carbon emissions and we will continue to work with our community to promote sustainable travel.
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In 2020, the home rental platform pledged to attain hundred-percent renewable electricity use for its corporate operations. Airbnb also became a founding participant in the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance (LEAF) Coalition in 2021.

To help address the climate crisis, Airbnb is also working with its Host Advisory Board regarding sustainable practices in hosting, and working on determining the emissions from Experiences and stays to obtain data to manage the actions of Hosts and guests.
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mood · Aug 1, 2022

Amazon's emissions increased dramatically last year despite carbon neutrality goal
August 1, 2022

Despite the company's commitment to decrease its carbon footprint, Amazon's emissions grew by 18 percent last year, according to the annual sustainability report it released today.
For the entirety of 2021, the company’s activities emitted the equivalent of more than 71.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (for comparison, that's one and a half times the amount the U.S. government emitted in 2019.)

But this figure is undoubtedly a drastic undercount. While Amazon does include emissions from its warehouses and logistics network, as Reveal reported this year, the company employs a sort of loophole. While other retailers, like Walmart and Target, account for pollution related to any goods they sell, Amazon only counts carbon emissions for Amazon-branded products, which make up around one percent of total sales
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Environmental experts have long voiced concerns over the immense climate toll of Amazon’s operations, especially its rush and two-day shipping options. Despite the lack of progress, Amazon’s goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 was noted in the report.
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