Day: 5 January 2020

Introducing Planet Passionate – Kingspan’s new 2030 Sustainability Vision

Stuart Mitchell

Kingspan has launched a major 10-year strategy to play its part in reducing the world’s carbon emissions by 45% by 2030, as determined in the Paris Agreement, and contribute towards the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  The Planet Passionate strategy is made up of 12 ambitious targets, addressing the impact of Kingspan’s business operations and manufacturing on the four key areas of energy, carbon, circularity and water, with commitments by 2030 to include:  Energy: powering 60% of all Kingspan operations directly from renewable energy with a minimum of…

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Business leaders urge EU to increase 2030 emissions reduction target to at least 55%

Stuart Mitchell

Members of the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe) are supporting a significant increase in the EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target for 2030 in order to remain in line with climate neutrality by 2050. CLG Europe, a leading group of progressive businesses including Unilever, Coca Cola European Partners, Interface and Signify recognise that to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, businesses must take action and ramp up investment without delay and a higher target of at least 55 per cent by 2030 will help strengthen this case. In a position…

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Winner of 2019 Unilever Young Entrepreneurs Awards announced

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership announced that Emmanuel Emodek, founder of digital platform ChapChap, has been chosen from eight winning entrepreneurs as the recipient of this year’s HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneurs Prize. ChapChap is a digital platform that helps small businesses balance the books and keep track of transactions all from their very own smartphone. Half of all small and medium businesses in Africa fail because of poor book-keeping, a lack of inventory management, and bad business practices. With SMEs accounting…

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BP signs sustainable energy agreements with Amazon Web Services

Stuart Mitchell

BP has agreed the first in a series of innovative power deals with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to supply renewable energy to the European data centres that drive the AWS cloud platform. The deal is in line with BP’s growing sustainable power business, which includes tailored Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) within the corporate sector. Starting in 2021, BP will begin supplying AWS with renewable energy from more than 170 megawatts (MW) of newbuild wind and solar projects in Sweden and Spain – enough renewable energy each year to supply over…

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