Once the darling of the tech world, Microsoft is nevertheless still a software and hardware juggernaut, and the company has revealed that it intends to reach a renewable energy target of 50% by 2018. Microsoft’s chief environmental and cities strategist Rob Bernard, writing on the company’s Green Blog in the wake … [continued]
Philips Lighting launched a new five-year sustainability program earlier this month, Brighter Lives, Better World, which includes targets of 100% carbon neutral operations and a shift to 100% electricity. The move comes amidst a global business transition toward cleaner and more sustainable activities — a move which Philips Lighting’s parent company … [continued]
The Climate Group has announced a number of new companies to recently become members of its flagship corporate renewable energy campaigns — RE100 and EP100. Over the past week, as part of Climate Week NYC, a number of companies have committed to 100% renewable energy programs, subsequently joining either RE100 … [continued]
American multinational General Motors, or GM, has committed to generating or sourcing 100% of the electricity for its operations across 59 countries from 100% renewable energy by 2050. GM made the announcement on Wednesday, revealing that it planned to generate or source all its electrical power needs for its 350 … [continued]
TetraPak, the world’s largest manufacturer of recyclable food and beverage containers, has joined RE100. It has pledged to derive 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by the year 2030.
Six new companies have joined global renewable energy campaign RE100, and are making commitments to 100% renewable power. The “ambitious global campaign led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, to engage, support and showcase influential businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity” announced its six newest commitments on the sidelines of the … [continued]
A new partnership between the UK arm of Mars and energy company Eneco UK will see all Mars operations in the UK powered by the new Moy Wind Farm in Scotland. Mars UK made the announcement this week, revealing that it had signed a deal with Eneco UK to acquire … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By David Labrador The Business Renewables Center (BRC) is working together with RE100, led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, to accelerate the procurement of renewable energy by some of the world’s most influential companies. The partnership aims to increase renewable demand (buyers), … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. Two of the larger media companies out there currently, Sky and Bloomberg, have both pledged to go “100% renewable” as part of the RE100 initiative, according to recent statements. The exact commitments revealed by the companies are: that Sky will source 100% renewable electricity by the … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. [Update: I’ve changed the video to a shorter video that just includes questions I posed and a couple that friends posed.] I had the great pleasure of participating in a long roundtable interview with IRENA Director General Adnan Z. Amin during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. Above is … [continued]
