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AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric Call for Supplier Action to Help Decarbonize Digital Infrastructure

Stuart Mitchell

The Governing Body of the iMasons Climate Accord, a program of Infrastructure Masons, is calling on all suppliers serving data centers to support greater transparency in Scope 3 emissions as part of broader efforts to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint. Consisting of AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric, the Governing Body released an open letter today that explains the importance of widespread adoption of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which are standardized, third-party-verified documents reporting the embodied emissions of a product. EPDs outline the greenhouse gas emissions of…

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Google launch new coalition to scale nature-based carbon removal

Stuart Mitchell

Google have announced that they’re co-founding Symbiosis, a new coalition of corporate buyers committed to following the latest science to scale high-quality, nature-based carbon removal. Nature-based carbon removal projects, like the restoration of trees and mangroves in damaged ecosystems, are an important tool to mitigate climate change and a scalable way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But nature is complex and dynamic, and it’s full of interdependent ecological and economic systems. This means the climate impact of these projects can be hard to measure and verify, which in…

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Google uses satellites, algorithms and AI help map and trace methane sources

Stuart Mitchell

Google post about a new partnership with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) which will help map and trace methane sources. Every year, our planet gets hotter because of greenhouse gas pollution. In fact, 2023 was the hottest year on record, and the last ten years have been the hottest years since 1850. Reducing this warming is essential to decreasing the risk of wildfires, drought and other extreme environmental events, and results in cleaner air and healthier communities. Today, we’re announcing a partnership with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) that combines our science…

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Danfoss, Google, Microsoft and Schneider Electric join forces in new Innovation Hub to accelerate green transition of data centres

Stuart Mitchell

Danfoss, Google, Microsoft and Schneider Electric are the founders of a new innovation hub in Fredericia, Denmark, that will bring together the data centre sector across Europe to find concrete solutions to accelerate the green transition. The Hub is open to other partners across Europe. Cloud computing plays a vital role in the digital and green transformation of society – enabling people to benefit from digital tools and businesses to work more efficiently and grow. In the past decade alone, the number of internet users has doubled – and global…

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Education in Ukraine: over $51 million in grants and in-kind support announced from UNESCO, GPE, Google and Microsoft

Stuart Mitchell

As the war continues in Ukraine, severely disrupting education, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Google, Microsoft Corporation and UNESCO will provide over US$51 million for distance learning and psychosocial support for children in conflict-affected areas. The program will be rolled out by UNESCO and UNICEF in Ukraine in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Science and will provide children and teachers with equipment and tools for distance learning, psychosocial support, teacher training and education sector planning. Through the GPE Multiplier, the Global Partnership for Education has matched a…

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