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Toyota Motor North America announced a 14% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 (operations-related) GHG emissions compared to FY2019.

Syntegon, a German processing and packaging technology manufacturer for pharmaceutical and food companies, announced the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validated the company’s climate targets.

Nordson Corporation announced it continues to implement operational efficiency projects, has completed or made progress on several on-site solar generation projects across the globe, increased purchasing of renewable energy and made investments in third-party certified, nature-based carbon offsets.

In this episode of Smart Energy Voices, Brent Trenga, Director of Sustainability at Kingspan North America, shares the company’s ambitious Planet Passionate program and its progress over the first four years of this 10-year initiative. Brent dives into the challenges they faced and the innovative solutions they have implemented to overcome them. He also highlights the value of benchmarking, setting aggressive sustainability targets, and internal buy-in from company leadership and employees to drive impactful change in sustainability efforts for this global building products manufacturer.

ITP Aero’s near-term science-based emissions reduction targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative.

Alfa Laval, a global provider of products in heat transfer, separation and fluid handling, announced plans to effectively reach its Scope 1 and 2 net zero targets by 2027, three years ahead of the originally announced goal.

Envista Holdings Corporation, a global dental products company, announced a 26% year-over-year reduction in its absolute Scope 1 GHG emissions and a 3.5% reduction of total (Scope 1 and 2) GHG emissions on an intensity basis.

Brilliant Earth Group, Inc., a fine jewelry company, announced that the Science Based Targets initiative has verified the company's long-term target to achieve net-zero GHG emissions across its operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and its supply chain (Scope 3) by 2050. 

Rio Tinto inked definitive agreements to help accelerate a steel decarbonization project in France.

Resource Efficient Decarbonization (RED) emerged from New York's Empire Building Challenge and focuses on energy reduction as a first step, while keeping multiple retrofit options open for building owners and managers as technology and regulation evolves. Here is how facility managers and commercial and industrial leaders, including those in hard-to-electrify sectors, can make the business case for building decarbonization in their organization using this phased, holistic approach.