Items Tagged with "World Economic Forum"

Alphabet, Microsoft Commit to C02 Removal

First Movers Coalition members Alphabet, Microsoft and Salesforce collectively committed $500 million to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos.Microsoft will further serve as an expert partner by sharing lessons from its carbon removal auctions and the Read More...

Why embedded emissions accounting is key to unleashing the power of circularity

The world is far off track to limiting global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and keeping global warming at 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels by 2030 in most scenario outlooks – with the industrial sector alone responsible for contributing about a quarter of worldwide emissions.Some 22% of Read More...

World Economic Forum: Retrofitting Buildings Could Lower Energy Intensity by 40%

Retrofitting existing buildings could lower their energy intensity by nearly 40%, according to the World Economic Forum’s Transforming Energy Demand report.The World Economic Forum (WEF) says in the report that buildings can reduce more energy than industry or transport. The report also d Read More...