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Univar Solutions, a global solutions provider to users of specialty ingredients and chemicals, announced its global Scope 1 and 2 emissions were down by 19.9% from its baseline.

The Chemours Company, a global chemistry company, achieved a 52% reduction in operational GHG emissions in 2023 since 2018 and is on track for a 60% reduction by 2030.

DXC Technology, a global technology services provider, announced its commitment to achieve net-zero Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 2050.

Colliers, a diversified professional services and investment management firm, lowered its Scope 1 and 2 emissions per square foot by 24.8% from a 2021 baseline.

Conduent Incorporated, a global technology-led business solutions and services company, reached its goal of a 40-50% reduction in Scope 2 GHG emissions by 2030 over its 2019 baseline.

Microsoft has issued a Datacenter Community Pledge to build and operate digital infrastructure that addresses societal challenges and creates benefits for communities. In this column, Noelle Walsh, Corporate Vice President, Cloud Operations and Innovations, explains the Pledge's focus on three core areas: contributing to a sustainable future, advancing community prosperity and well-being, and operating responsibly as a good neighbor.

In this episode of Smart Energy Voices, host Debra Chanil sat down with Marshall Duer-Balkind, Director of Policy Programs at the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT), to talk about building performance standards (BPS) and their implications for the energy transition. He also gives an overview of IMT's mission and work, focusing on their efforts to improve the efficiency and performance of buildings through policy development and equitable decarbonization.

Caesars Entertainment, Inc., a casino-entertainment company, is implementing a new GHG reduction goal of 46.2% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline after achieving emission reduction goals three years ahead of schedule in 2022.

Global plant-based food ingredient supplier Green Boy Group was able to completely offset its Scope 1 and 2 emissions and part of its Scope 3 emissions, making the company carbon neutral in 2023.

The deadline for nominations for Smart Energy Decisions' 2024 DEI Impact Awards is June 21. These awards will acknowledge company-wide efforts by large power users (commercial, industrial, institutional, and government) to advance DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), specifically focusing on the impact and amplification of energy and sustainability programs.