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Google's 2024 Environmental Report provides an overview of the company's sustainability strategy, targets, and annual progress toward them. Among the highlights to explore are the company's efforts to harness technology — particularly AI — to drive positive environmental change and operate the business sustainably. And the challenges? Total GHG emissions increased 13% year-over-year in 2023, primarily driven by increased data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions.

Amazon announced the electricity consumed by its operations, including its data centers, was matched with 100% renewable energy last year.

With 99 percent of its emissions coming from outside its own operations, the LEGO Group is launching a Supplier Sustainability Programme to inform and engage suppliers across all procurement categories that are the largest contributors to its Scope 3 carbon emissions.

Rio Tinto will add two 5.25-MW solar farms that will be built on Gumatj and Rirratjingu country on the Gove Peninsula in Australia's Northern Territory.

The City of Azusa inaugurated the operation of eight new wind turbines in North Palm Springs, California, which expands the City's current clean energy capacity.

The Hain Celestial Group, a global health and wellness company, made a significant investment into a decarbonization project at its main U.K. manufacturing facility at Histon in Cambridgeshire, U.K.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the agency is providing over $375 million in funding through the Powering Affordable Clean Energy Program (PACE) and the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) for hundreds of clean energy projects in rural America to lower energy bills and expand access to clean energy.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company continued its work to reduce its environmental impact and lowered its Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 21.9% in 2023 compared to its 2019 baseline.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it lowered emissions primarily through a transition to clean energy and surpassed its 2025 target of sourcing 50% renewable electricity for the past two consecutive years.