Category: Sustainable World

Through close collaboration, technological breakthroughs, and a commitment to becoming the world’s most energy-efficient appliance brand, Samsung aims to lead the way to a more sustainable future.

Consumer electronics maker Samsung today announced innovations designed to bring about a new era of sustainable living.

With services like ‘SmartThings Energy’ setting new standards for household efficiency, Samsung’s latest ‘Bespoke’ home appliances empower users to save both energy and money. Together with technologies including a new wash cycle and filter that significantly reduce microplastic emissions from washers, Samsung’s newest advancements make it easier than ever for consumers to reduce their impact on the environment and support the health of the planet.

“The technologies we’re unveiling at CES 2023 place sustainability at the core of the user experience,” said Moohyung Lee, EVP and Head of the R&D Team of the Digital Appliances Business at Samsung Electronics.

“Our ambition is to become the most energy-efficient appliance brand globally, and our latest products and partnerships will help make sustainable living a reality for more people and more communities,” Lee said in a statement.

 SmartThings maximizes energy savings

With more than 80 million connected devices, the SmartThings platform continues to expand while unlocking more ways for users to reduce their carbon footprint at home.

Now, SmartThings Energy’s AI Energy Mode is more powerful than ever, offering support for more devices and regions and even more significant energy savings. “This includes up to 15 percent more savings for compatible refrigerators, up to 20 percent for compatible air conditioners, and up to 35 percent for compatible washers on select cycles,” the company claimed.

The company has also bagged the industry’s first Smart Home Energy Management Systems (SHEMS) certification from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The certification recognizes smart home appliances and services that manage and automate connected devices to help consumers gain insights into their energy use, thereby inspiring energy-saving behavior, reducing costs, and helping to facilitate demand response measures that minimize stress on the grid.

The EPA has also awarded base model Samsung home appliances 260 ENERGY STAR® certifications, including 43 “Most Efficient” recognitions. Samsung is a long-standing leader with more than a decade of ENERGY STAR award leadership, and a rare recipient of the prestigious ENERGY STAR Corporate Commitment Award.

    Making net zero homes a reality — offering households the ultimate in energy efficiency

  To empower more people to enjoy energy independence at home, Samsung has unveiled the next phase of its net zero home initiative: the Smart City Project.

Working with Sterling Ranch and its long-time technology partner Siemens, the Smart City Project will help establish Sterling Ranch as a master-planned sustainable housing community designed to house 30,000 residents in Littleton, Colorado.

SmartThings Energy will serve as the residents’ primary interactive app to monitor data, with Samsung appliances offering residents real-time insights on their energy, water and natural gas use.

  Throughout the community, solar panels and household batteries will produce and store energy, while energy-efficient appliances reduce power and monitor water use to save resources. Together with smart infrastructure solutions from Siemens paired with smart home and energy optimization solutions from Resideo Technologies, Samsung technologies will make it easier for the residents of Sterling Ranch to enjoy a net-zero lifestyle.

Samsung’s collaboration with Resideo extends beyond the Smart City Project. Samsung and Resideo are exploring an opportunity to integrate Samsungs appliances with Resideo’s smart grid solutions to connect customers with energy management programs in California and Texas.

In future, this work could help make more communities smart-grid ready by expanding Resideo’s best-in-class demand response offering and optimizing SmartThings Energy’s savings.

  Tackling microplastics head-on with ‘less microfiber’ technology

 For over a year, Samsung and Patagonia have been working together to address the challenge of microplastics shedding during the laundry process and polluting oceans and other bodies of water. Samsung’s new Less Microfiber Cycle and Filter are the products of that collaboration.

  A breakthrough in the fight against microplastics, the Less Microfiber Cycle cuts microplastic emissions by up to 54 per cent. Now available in Europe, the cycle will roll out to compatible washers in Korea from February this year and in the US soon.

  Like the Less Microfiber Cycle, Samsung and Patagonia’s newly developed washing machine filter has the potential to have a real impact on the health of aquatic ecosystems.

The Less Microfiber Filter reduces microplastic emissions by preventing them from escaping into the ocean at the end of wash cycles. It will be available in select Samsung washing machines in Europe beginning in the second half of 2023, and can also be purchased separately and applied to any washer on the market, regardless of brand.

Samsung’s latest laundry innovations will make it easier for consumers to reduce environmental waste for years to come. So too will its washers and refrigerators’ class-leading 20-year warranties.

Covering the appliances’ digital inverter technologies, the warranties open the door for additional waste reductions by extending Samsung washers and refrigerators’ lifespans. Bespoke refrigerators also feature customizable door panels that support longer use by allowing users to easily update their existing appliance’s design instead of replacing it with a new one.

Through close collaboration, technological breakthroughs, and a commitment to becoming the world’s most energy-efficient appliance brand, Samsung aims to lead the way to a more sustainable future.

These EV charging points are installed at across various Taj, SeleQtions, Vivanta, Ginger and amã Stays and Trails properties across the country.

Hospitality firm Indian Hotels Company (IHCL), in collaboration with Tata Power, has installed 224 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at 92 of its properties, a move that will give driving vacations in electric vehicles more accessible for guests.

  These EV charging points are installed at across various Taj, SeleQtions, Vivanta, Ginger and amã Stays and Trails properties across the country, an official statement said.

  These chargers can be accessed by the guests staying at various IHCL properties, allowing them to experience the reliability and worry-free facility, while discovering breath-taking destinations across the country.

  Speaking about the initiative, IHCL Executive Vice President (Human Resource) Gaurav Pokhariyal said, “Today, we are seeing a major paradigm shift across the globe as an increasing number of people are gravitating towards alternative or less energy-intensive options of transport. At IHCL, we will continue our endeavour to embrace green sources of energy while making sustainability measures easily accessible for our customers.”

  The move is aligned with IHCL’s commitment to cater to the evolving needs of its environmentally conscious customers by reducing their carbon footprint in travel and assisting in the further adaptation of sustainable means of living.

  With a long term vision of driving responsible tourism, IHCL has announced its sustainability commitments for the year 2030 under Paathya. IHCL will continue to pioneer sustainable practices in its pursuit towards excellence and creating benchmark in the tourism industry.

The new solar power plant will generate 256 MWh of electricity per year and is estimated to reduce 210 tonne of carbon emissions annually.

Happiest Minds Technologies today announced commissioning of a 183kWp solar power plant at its ‘Smiles 2’ campus at Madivala, Bengaluru.

  The new solar power plant will generate 256 MWh of electricity per year and is estimated to reduce 210 tonne of carbon emissions annually and 5200 tonne over its lifecycle, the company said in a statement.

  Happiest Minds aims to achieve carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030 and aspires to be known for its high levels of ESG standards.

  Commenting on the development, the company’s Managing Director and CFO Venkatraman Narayanan said the company is consciously embedding sustainability in every aspect of its business by striving for more mindful ways to reduce the impact on the planet, whilst providing digital, agile, and sustainable solutions to the customers.

  India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) target is to achieve about 40 per cent cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources and to reduce the emission intensity of its GDP by 33 per cent to 35 per cent from 2005 level by 2030.

ACC trains 200 rural youth to become employable

DISHA project by the ACC has trained 200 rural youth from the tribal villages of Jharkhand, making them employable. DISHA, part of ACC’s CSR initiative, aims to eliminate unemployment among people in host communities and provides training for self-employment in areas such as automotive technicians, electricians, life skills, sewing machine operators, pickers, and packers.

DISHA aims to provide the necessary training and education to make people employable across different skills and industries. In the eight tribal villages surrounding the company’s manufacturing plant at Chaibasa in Jharkhand, the initiative drives rural communities’ development by addressing local youth’s unemployment, particularly dropout children.

DISHA recently completed the skill development training and successfully placed the candidates at leading organisations like Mother & Sons Sumi, Grofers, Big Basket, Welspun and Shahi Exports in Bengaluru. To date, more than 200 candidates have benefited from the DISHA project.

When it comes to problem-solving, DISHA follows the participatory rural appraisal study of communities followed by a collection of household data that facilitates micro planning, counselling facilities, soft skills and digital skills development are also part of the programme, in addition to engaging with the local Panchayat members, who are critical stakeholders of villages. Some of its other outreach programmes to the underprivileged focus on digital and financial literacy, soft skills, personality and overall development.

ACC Limited, Chaibasa continued its journey and inaugurated a new batch of trades graced by Mr Ananya Mittal, District Collector, West Singhbhum, in the presence of Mr Raj Gurung, Plant Director of Chaibasa Cement Works, to provide skill training to 70 candidates. District Commissioner was pleased to mention that West Singhbhum District is progressing rapidly under the program “Transformation of Aspirational Districts” launched by the Prime Minister, which aims to quickly and effectively transform some of the most underdeveloped districts of the country. District Commissioner also appreciated the contribution of ACC Limited in this regard. He said that the participation of the youth would motivate others from the tribal area to come forward.

Sridhar Balakrishnan, MD & CEO, ACC Limited, said: “At ACC, our goal has always been clear: to transform lives and create a better world. We try to achieve the same by enabling marginalised households to access gainful self-employment, creating opportunities for youth development, and promoting equality through participation and inclusion of all individuals, groups and communities.”

The outreach programme also helps mobilise employment with many governments and social security schemes, like the Shram card and zero-balance Jan Dhan bank accounts.

PepsiCo’s 2021 ESG Sustainability Reports highlight it’s leveraging a new course to drive positive action for the planet and people.

PepsiCo has published its first Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Summary since the launch of PepsiCo Positive (pep+), a strategic end-to-end business transformation with sustainability and human capital at the centre of how the company will create growth and value.

The 2021 ESG Summary – an evolution from PepsiCo’s prior Sustainability Reports – highlights how the company is leveraging its brands, people and scale to chart a new course to drive positive action for the planet and people. It also highlights progress made on industry-leading commitments.

Positive Agriculture

Pep+ helped to spread the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices across more than 345,000 acres, leading to progress toward its goal of seven million acres, the approximate equivalent of PepsiCo’s agricultural footprint, by 2030.

It further Supported the livelihoods of female farmers and rural communities via initiatives such as the $20 million USAID, a partnership to develop women-led enterprises, and the $2 million Next Generation Agriculture Fund with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) to demonstrate the impact of gender-smart solutions for agriculture.

These programs mark initial action towards a new pep+ goal to improve the livelihoods of more than 250,000 people in PepsiCo’s agricultural supply chain and communities, including economically empowering women. In 28 demonstration farms in India, there were average yield improvements of almost 7 per cent and reduced GHG emissions by more than 7 per cent resulting in the farmer income increase of $55 per acre on average yielded value for farmers.

PepsiCo is working with USAID in West Bengal to empower women farmers and expand their horizons by educating them on sustainable farming practices, best irrigation and crop rotation techniques, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, etc., through training programs. In partnership with USAID, PepsiCo in India has trained more than 1000 women in potato agronomy and sustainable farming practices since 2019 to reach 500 additional women farmers in 2022.

Positive Value Chain

Pep+ initiatives helped reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 25 per cent from a 2015 baseline, with more than 70 per cent of global electricity needs in direct operations now met by renewable sources. In 2021, Scope 3 emissions – which account for 93 per cent of the company’s emissions – increased by 5 cents from a 2015 baseline, due mainly to unprecedented business growth.

It helped improve operational water-use efficiency by 18 per cent in high water-risk areas from a 2015 baseline against a target of 25 per cent by 2025. It replenished 34 per cent of water used in operations to local watersheds in 2021– more than 6.1 billion litres of water. In addition, PepsiCo has continued to advance safe water access globally to more than 68 million people since 2006 (Of this, over 27 million beneficiaries are from India.), putting the company more than halfway to its 2030 goal of 100 million people.

PepsiCo has implemented N-Drip technology on farms in India that saw improved crop yields and reduced fertiliser usage, with an average reduction of 39 per cent in water consumption compared to flood irrigation in the states of Uttar Pradesh and reduced fertiliser usage, with an average decrease of 39 per cent in water consumption compared to flood irrigation in Uttar Pradesh states Punjab and Rajasthan.

Positive Choices

Four years ahead of schedule in 2021, PepsiCo attained its saturated fat reduction goal of 75 per cent. In addition, 53 per cent of PepsiCo’s beverage portfolio volume now has less than 100 Calories from added sugars per 12oz. Serving 66 per cent of its convenient foods portfolio volume does not exceed 1.3 milligrams of sodium per Calorie.

PepsiCo in India has been working to improve the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women and children in the age group 0-6 years in Sangrur, Punjab, in partnership with Smile Foundation.

“PepsiCo’s commitment and action to create a more sustainable and resilient food system is unwavering, and we are proud of the progress that we made in 2021 toward our new and updated pep+ goals”, Jim Andrew, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo, said.

He said, “We aim to decouple so our business can grow sustainably while decreasing environmental impacts. There is still much more work to be done, and we cannot do it alone, so we – in partnership with our value chain partners, communities, NGOs and government leaders – will continue investing in action, innovation and partnerships that enable us all to realise a more sustainable future”.

Lodha developer aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035

India’s leading real estate developer, Lodha, has announced the launch of “Lodha Net Zero Urban Accelerator’ to promote sustainable practices in the Indian real estate sector. Assisted by RMI, the developer aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035.

The accelerator will craft and deliver innovative initiatives towards Lodha’s net-zero commitment, using facilitated multi-stakeholder engagement, integrative design, and research and development. The meeting with industry stakeholders will be around technologies, business models, financing, and programs to accelerate net-zero implementation.

According to the developer, the model can generate scalable solutions to propel India’s burgeoning built environment towards zero carbon. With the launch of the accelerator, Lodha envisions taking a leadership stance by offering an urban development template that can demonstrate — to India and the world — that growth decoupled from emissions is possible, thus, advancing livability and staying true to its promise of building a better life.

Palava, Lodha’s flagship development and India’s first integrated Greenfield smart city, will be the model used in the initiative, which will gradually be replicated across other locations. Palava will serve as a city-scale living laboratory to solve challenges and pioneer innovations on the path to net-zero.

Commenting on the launch, Abhishek Lodha, MD and CEO, Lodha said, “As a responsible developer, we recognise the crucial role that the real estate sector can play in minimising the risks posed by climate change to our planet. Combating global warming aggressively has become imperative, and the onus is on all organisations to promote the transition towards a low-carbon economy. Aiming to build a better life for everyone, we established a North Star goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2035. The launch of “Lodha Net Zero Urban Accelerator” is a major step in this direction to drive collaborative, large-scale solutions for a greener future. In addition to our long-standing association”.

He said, “RMI is the perfect partner in this journey due to its decades of global expertise in fast-tracking the adoption of market-based solutions. The accelerator is formulated with an overarching goal to make net-zero carbon development the new normal, thereby maximising the sector’s contribution towards India’s 2070 net-zero emissions target while also increasing resilience, health, affordability, and energy services.”

Amory Lovins, Cofounder and Chairman emeritus, RMI, states, “This unique Accelerator can demonstrate that through collaboration, integrative design, and efficiency as a first resource, growth and prosperity will increase greatly while carbon and emissions intensity decline toward zero.”

India imports about 4 lakh tonnes of apple annually. Bringing 5,000 to 8,000 hectare under the HDP model is sufficient to make import substitute in the next five years.

Like many farmers in Uttarakhand, 35 year-old woman farmer from Champawat district Devaki Devi was sceptical of adopting a high density plantation of new apple varieties in mid-altitude range of 1,000-1,500 metres above sea level and that too in just five nali (10,800 square feet) area.

  For years, Devi had been growing vegetables in her small piece of land but decided to shift to apple cultivation after seeing fellow farmers getting better yields and returns.

  She took training in HDP (High Density Plantation) from the ‘Unnati apple project’, a CSR intervention of Coca Cola India along with Bhimtal-based Indo Dutch Horticulture Technologies and G B Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology.

  With technical and financial support from the Unnati project, Devi planted 250 apple saplings of ‘Gala mema’ and ‘Red Delicious’ varieties in five nali areas in 2021.

  In the traditional method, apple trees are planted at a distance of 5-7 metres, whereas in the HDP method it is done at every one metre.

  “Apple fruits are typically ready for harvest in August. But much to my surprise in HDP, the varieties that I planted the fruits were ready for picking in July itself. I got 5-6 kg yield per tree in the first year itself,” Devi said.

  Devi sold apples at Rs 150 per kilogram and got a better price as her crop hit the market a month in advance. She earned nearly Rs 1.80 lakh in the first year itself. Devi is now waiting to harvest next month with a yield as high as 10-15 kilogram per tree.

  For 57-year-old Madan Singh, a traditional apple farmer, growing apple trees at mid-altitude and getting the crop in 12 months after the planting was unbelievable until he tried his hands on five nali areas under the Unnati project.

  In traditional methods, it is difficult to get a crop for harvesting even after six years but in HDP method it was possible to get the crop from second year onwards with yields expected to go up to 50 kg per tree from fifth year, which is unimaginable, he added.

  Due to early maturity and better returns, many farmers in Uttarakhand are taking up this new method of apple cultivation.

  About 700-odd acres of apple orchards have already been developed since the launch of the Unnati apple project in 2018 in the state, Coca-Cola INSWA, CSR and Sustainability Senior Manager Aditya Panda said.

  Not only in Uttarakhand, the new method is also being promoted in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, where 300 acres of apple orchards have come up under the Unnati project, he said.

  The target is to achieve 20,000 acres in three states.

  The Unnati apple project was initiated in Uttarakhand solely because the productivity in the state was low at 3-4 tonnes per hectare per annum, half the nation’s average productivity, despite favourable climate and vast available land for greenfield apple cultivation,” Panda said.

  Since farmers were shy of making upfront investment required to establish modern HDP apple orchards of highest global standards, the company subsidised and set up demo farms at their places. Along with planting material, drip irrigation, trellis support structure with four wire support, perforated weed mulching, hail net and fencing material are being provided at subsidised rates.

  To ensure well-being of farmer communities, improve yields and propagate judicious use of natural resources, Coca Cola India partnered with Indo Dutch Horticulture Technologies (IDHT) as its implementation partner in Uttarakhand.

  IDHT is the biggest and leading producer of high density apple plant nursery in India. It has been key in supplying the right planting material to farmers.

  “With a five times increase in yield expected from HDP apple orchards, there is potential to make the country self-sufficient in apple production. This will also help in reverse migration and provide employment to youth in hilly states,” Indo-Dutch Horticulture Technologies (IDHT) Director Sudhir Chadha said.

  A total of 2 lakh hectare is under apple cultivation in India, out of which 10,000 hectare in Uttarakhand.

  “We import about 4 lakh tonnes annually. Bringing 5,000 to 8,000 hectare under the HDP model is sufficient to make import substitute in the next five years,” he said.

  ‘Gala mema’, ‘Gala Schinico Red’ , ‘King Roat and ‘Golden Parsi Da Rosa’ are some of the high yielding varieties which Chadha has developed by grafting apple trees on rootstock imported from The Netherlands and Italy.

  These apple varieties can be grown in mid-altitude range and the research is underway to grow HDP apples in plains as well, he said.

  Chadha, a pioneer in the high density apple plantation in India, is conducting research in HDP apples at an experimental field of 10,000 acres given on lease for 10 years by G B Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology, which is a knowledge partner of Unnati Apple Project.

  According to Shivendra Kashyap, Dean, College of Agriculture at G B Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology, “We are doing research in some fruits, not in apples. Chadha’ HDP method has potential to change the way apples are cultivated not only in Uttarakhand but in other hilly states.”

  Coca Cola India has capped the subsidy for setting up an HDP apple orchard in five nali areas. The subsidy varies for three states. Farmers, however, can expand their orchards at their own cost.

  Besides apples, the company is working with farmers to boost production of mango, orange, grapes, litchi and priority commodities like sugarcane in 11 states under the Unnati project, which is part of the company’s ‘Fruit Circular Economy’.

Recharge can help move excess salts that accumulate in the root zone to deeper soil layers, or into the groundwater system. Tree roots increase water saturation into groundwater reducing water runoff..

Private lender DCB Bank will tomorrow inaugurate and symbolically mark the beginning of the 25 rainwater recharge wells (RRW) sustainability project in Bengaluru.

  This RRW would act as a powerful groundwater management tool that not only protects and restore aquatic environments, prevents urban flash folding, increases groundwater but also provides employment to well-diggers, the company said in a statement.

  With the continuous issue of ground water shortage in Bengaluru, the Bank is contributing to preserve water by utilising existing natural resources.

  Recharge can help move excess salts that accumulate in the root zone to deeper soil layers, or into the groundwater system. Tree roots increase water saturation into groundwater reducing water runoff.

  Besides this, DCB Bank in collaboration with iNaturewatch Foundation will launch a mobile app “eForestrails” in Mumbai that will help visitors for nature tours in Karnala Bird Sanctuary.

  In Odisha, DCB Bank’s sustainable development initiative in Banki Block, a backward area in Cuttack district is transforming the lives of its inhabitants.

  Local women are trained in the bee-keeping activity to create an inclusive development for the region. They have been successful in promoting cross-pollination and honey collection thereby building a steady source of supplementary income.

Apart from working towards a sustainable resilient supply chain, Nestle India has also been plastic neutral across all its brands, strengthening its commitment towards 100 per cent recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025.

Recognising the need for sustainable operations across the value chain, FMCG major Nestle India on Wednesday said it is training dairy, spice and coffee farmers to develop sustainable farms and source high quality raw material.

  Nestle India, in a statement, said the company has partnered and engaged with 7000 dairy farmers across the dairy value stream for reducing enteric fermentation and energy, improving feed management and manure management.

  “The focus is on training farmers in good agricultural practices, helping them produce safe, high-quality raw materials, and develop resilient and sustainable farms,” it said.

  In addition to dairy farmers, Nestlé India has also been working closely with spice and coffee farmers, enabling them to source sustainably.

  The association with coffee farmers under the NESCAFÉ plan has resulted in an impactful contribution in reducing water usage at farms by 23 per cent while increasing yield by up to 18 per cent, the company claimed.

  Similarly, the MAGGI Spice plan has ensured that the spices sourced are free from harmful pesticides, additives, and climate change effects, it added.

  Commenting on these initiatives, Nestlé India Chairman and Managing Director Suresh Narayanan said: “Responsible sourcing of materials is essential to ensuring a sustainable future. There are continuous efforts to improve operational efficiencies, minimizing consumption of natural resources and reducing water, energy and CO2 emissions while maximizing production volumes.’’

  Apart from working towards a sustainable resilient supply chain, Nestle India has also been plastic neutral across all its brands, strengthening its commitment towards 100 per cent recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025.

  There has also been an increasing focus on sustainable logistics for addressing key climate challenges including the use of railways for transportation of goods to reduce carbon footprint and initiation of inland waterways among others.

  Nestle India said it has reduced the usage of energy by around 43 per cent, water usage by around 52 per cent, generation of wastewater by around 67 per cent and specific direct Green House Gas emissions by 57 per cent for every tonne of production over the last 15 years.

Intel’s priority is to actively reduce its emissions, in line with international standards and climate science. It will use credible carbon offsets to achieve its goal only if other options are exhausted.To realize this ambitious goal, Intel has set interim milestones for 2030.

Chip-maker Intel on Wednesday announced it will achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its global operations by 2040 and develop more sustainable technology solutions.

“Intel is committing to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its operations, otherwise known as its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, by 2040,” the company said in a statement.

Intel’s priority is to actively reduce its emissions, in line with international standards and climate science. It will use credible carbon offsets to achieve its goal only if other options are exhausted, it said.

To realize this ambitious goal, Intel has set interim milestones for 2030 which includes: achieving 100 percent renewable electricity use across its global operations, investing USD 300 million in energy conservation at its facilities to achieve 4 billion cumulative kilowatt hours of energy savings.

Build new factories and facilities to meet US Green Building Council LEED program standards, including recently announced investments in the US, Europe and Asia.

The company said it will launch a cross-industry research and development initiative to identify greener chemicals with lower global warming potential and to develop new abatement equipment.

Besides this, Intel committed to lower the carbon footprint of its products and platforms with specific goals, and collaborate to create solutions that lower the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire technology ecosystem.

These targets strengthen Intel’s commitment to sustainable business practices, like its RISE strategy.

Intel’s cumulative greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade were nearly 75 per cent lower than they would have been in the absence of investments and action.

Stating that the impact of climate change is an urgent global threat, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said protecting the planet demands immediate action and fresh thinking about how the world operates.

“As one of the world’s leading semiconductor design and manufacturing companies, Intel is in a unique position to make a difference not only in our own operations, but in a way that makes it easier for customers, partners and our whole value chain to take meaningful action too,” he said.