Tag: Net Zero

Thames Water publishes new roadmap to Net Zero

Stuart Mitchell

Having started at a London sewage works nine decades ago, Thames Water has published the final stage of its roadmap to achieving net zero carbon emissions across all operations by 2030. The UK’s largest water supplier is committed to leading the future of energy transition by transforming the way it creates and uses power to become carbon neutral by 2030, having cut emissions by almost 70 per cent since 1990. The company, which has been producing renewable energy at Mogden sewage works since the 1930s, aims to be carbon negative…

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Vital Energi to help the City of London in drive towards net zero

Stuart Mitchell

Vital Energi have been awarded a contract by the City of London Corporation to guarantee energy savings of over £480,000 a year and carbon savings of over 1,000 tonnes a year, helping the governing body of the Square Mile to take major strides towards the ambitious target of net zero carbon emissions by 2027 for its corporate estate. The project will be delivered through the Greater London Authority’s Retrofit Accelerator framework designed to help make London’s non-domestic public buildings and assets more energy efficient, and the works will to be…

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UCLH declares a climate and health emergency

Stuart Mitchell

UCLH is making a firm commitment to reduce its impact on the environment with a 10-point plan to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions in 10 years. To galvanise action, UCLH is also declaring a climate and health emergency. This builds on progress made since UCLH’s Green Plan was put in place in 2020. The plan has seen investment of more than £2.5m in a programme to: install low energy LED lights switch to sustainable electricity and recycled paper reduce patient journeys by 50 per cent reduce the use of…

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew commits to become climate positive by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew releases its first Sustainability Strategy, setting out a series of ambitious commitments to rapidly reduce the organisation’s carbon footprint and utilise its trusted voice, alongside its workforce of leading plant scientists and network of global partnerships, to call for the change needed to tackle the environmental emergency. The overarching target is to go beyond ‘Net Zero’ with Kew committing to becoming ‘Climate Positive’ by 2030, setting a science-based carbon emissions reduction target. This ambitious target is one of the commitments outlined in Kew’s new 10-year…

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Tyson Foods Targets 2050 to Achieve Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Stuart Mitchell

Tyson Foods, a leading global protein company, today announced its ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its global operations and supply chain by 2050, including scopes 1, 2 and 3. As the first U.S.-based protein company to have an emissions reduction target approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), this ambition, in conjunction with the release of the company’s fiscal year 2020 (FY20) Sustainability Progress Report, underscores the company’s commitment to help combat the urgency of the growing climate change crisis. “At Tyson Foods, we believe…

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