Day: 28 October 2021

GM Set to Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in the U.S. 5 Years Ahead of Schedule

Stuart Mitchell

General Motors has announced that it plans to source 100 percent renewable energy to power its U.S. sites by 2025 – five years earlier than previously announced, and 25 years ahead of its initial target that was set in 2016. By accelerating its renewable energy goal, GM aims to avoid 1 million metric tons of carbon emissions that would have been produced between 2025 and 2030. “We know climate action is a priority and every company must push itself to decarbonize further and faster,” said GM Chief Sustainability Officer Kristen…

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Compass Group, SAP and Zurich Insurance Group join forces to make supply chains fairer and more sustainable across Europe

Stuart Mitchell

A group of forward-thinking global corporations are using their collective purchasing power to open up their supply chains to European social enterprises – businesses which reinvest the majority of their profits into a social or environmental mission – in an effort to contribute to a more inclusive and sustainable post-COVID recovery. Spurred on by the success of the Buy Social Corporate Challenge in the UK, which saw the level of annual social procurement spend hit a record high in 2020, Compass Group, SAP and Zurich Insurance Group are now working…

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M&S Resets Plan A With Pledge To Cut Its Carbon Footprint By A Third By 2025 As Part Of Its Commitment To Be Fully Net Zero By 2040

Stuart Mitchell

M&S has reset its Plan A sustainability programme, with a singular focus on becoming a net zero Scope 3 business across its entire supply chain and products by 2040. The retailer has set out a detailed roadmap to net zero using science-based targets aligned to the UN ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5c. The ambitious target would see M&S achieve full net zero ten years ahead of the government’s UK-wide strategy and will require rapid decarbonisation of its business to cut its carbon footprint by a third by 2025,…

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Air France, TotalEnergies, the Métropole of Nice Côte d’Azur and Nice Côte d’Azur Airport carry out a Nice-Paris flight fueled with 30% Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Stuart Mitchell

Air France, TotalEnergies, the Metropole and the Airport of Nice Côte d’Azur have joined forces to operate a flight fueled with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Air France Flight 6235 has taken off for Orly Airport in Paris from Nice Airport’s Terminal 2, after being loaded with 30% SAF produced by TotalEnergies in its French plants.  The SAF-fueled flight is taking place during the Nice Transition Days, an international festival celebrating ecological innovations lasting until October 3, 2021, hosted by and organized by the Métropole of Nice-Côte d’Azur in partnership with…

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TotalEnergies Doubles its Recycled Plastic Production Capacity in France

Stuart Mitchell

TotalEnergies has inaugurated the extension of Synova in Normandy, the French leader in recycled polypropylene production. TotalEnergies is therefore doubling its mechanical recycling production capacity for recycled polymers, to meet growing demand for sustainable polymers from customers, such as Automotive Manufacturer (Auto OEM) and the construction industry. Moving the circular economy forward Plastics are essential to everyday life because of their many properties, including lightness, which allows the automotive industry, for example, to reduce the weight of vehicles and hence also fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. But plastics’ end-of-life is…

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