Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week focus on green recovery
ABU DHABI, January 13, 2021 Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), the global platform for accelerating sustainable development, hosted by Masdar, will be held from January 18 to 21 and reimagined virtually. ADSW 2021 will feature a series of high-level virtual events, including the ADSW Summit, Irena Assembly, Abu Dhabi Sustainable Finance Forum, Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum, Youth 4 Sustainability Virtual Forums and the World Future Energy Summit Webinars. Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE s Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and Special Envoy for Climate Change and Chairman of Masdar, said: As our economies and industries begin to recover from the impact of the global pandemic, we have an opportunity to set ambitious goals, invest in new technologies and put the necessary policies in place that will deliver a sustainable recovery. Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week embodies the United Arab Emirate s
Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa
One of the boldest climate commitments in 2020 came from the tech giant Microsoft, which in January pledged to be carbon negative by 2030 and to address its legacy emissions–all the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975–by 2050.
Microsoft has also committed to replenish more water than it consumes and produce zero net waste by 2030, while protecting more land than it uses by 2025. Further, the company said it would lend its computing power toward efforts to combat biodiversity loss and use its voice to advocate for public policies that “measure and manage ecosystems.”
Microsoft and UK-based ITV are among 13 more companies to have joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to be net-zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement s goal of 2050. The other 11 new signatories are Atos, Brooks, Canary Wharf Group, Coca-Cola European Partners, ERM, Groupe SEB France, Harbour Air, Neste, Rubicon, Unilever, and Vaude. With the 13 new signatories, 31 companies have now joined The Climate Pledge. There are now 31 companies from around the world that have signed The Climate Pledge, and collectively we are sending an important signal to the market that there is significant and rapidly growing demand for technologies that can help us build a zero-carbon economy, Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement.
Amazon's corporate climate initiative secures backing from another 13 major companies, as overall membership committed to net zero by 2040 swells to 31