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Through the Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.'s Net Zero Consortium for Buyers, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Cadence Design Systems, IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., PTC, and a large healthcare company signed an aggregated virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA).

Spruce Root, a southeast Alaska nonprofit and Community Development Financial Institution, will receive a $2.5 million U.S. DOE grant for a heat pump deployment project for Prince of Wales Island.

Performance Food Group, a food and foodservice distribution company, introduced new goals in its fiscal year 2023 ESG report, which include lowering Scope 1 and 2 GHG emission intensity by 30% by 2034.

TOTO, a plumbing manufacturer, received approval for its 2030 GHG reduction targets from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced new targets to achieve net-zero emissions across its operations and value chain by 2045 and 100% renewable electricity across all sites by 2035.

Toyota Logistics Services (TLS), a vehicle processing and distribution center in Long Beach, California, plans to use biogas at the facility.

Sphera — a global provider of ESG performance and risk management software, data and consulting services — received validation of its Scope 1 and 2 GHG reduction target from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Belkin, a consumer electronics brand, announced its plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.

General Motors (GM) has publicly committed to reducing its energy consumption, water consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions across its 118 U.S. sites. All sites were tasked with evaluating potential contributions to the goal, as well as mapping glide paths to the targets. This column from Better Buildings explains how GM developed a new Energy and Carbon Optimization (ECO) Metrics Dashboard to standardize the process and help energy managers and plant leadership track monthly performance for energy, water, and emissions and estimate site-specific potential savings from their existing project roadmap.

Markley Group, a provider of data center facilities, cloud computing, and network services, today announced its Green Power Partnership program to enable customers to offset carbon emissions and participate in environmental conservation.