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Building sustainability at the edge of the enterprise

CIO

At the same time, the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies has become a boardroom topic, with sustainability concerns leading the way in many geographies. In the European Union, for instance, legislative efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 50% before 2030 are in an advanced stage. Edge Computing

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Becoming the sustainability partner our customers need

CIO

At Equinix, we recognize that meeting key sustainability targets is one of our customers’ top concerns—now and into the future. We’re also emphasizing transparency in our sustainability metrics, so that current and future Equinix customers can easily see how our efforts might benefit their sustainability bottom line.

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Salty, subterranean water could relieve world’s lithium shortage

TechCrunch

The next bottleneck in lithium-ion battery supplies isn’t cobalt, even though China has a stranglehold on the market, and it’s not nickel, either, despite nickel prices nearly doubling in the past five months. Then it got worse in February, with spot prices rising to $52,000 per metric ton before rising again to $62,000 in March.

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Teraco and VMware are Taking a New Approach to Support the Efforts of South Africa’s Cloud Innovators in Their Quest to Achieve Zero Carbon Emissions

CIO

“The barriers confronting organizations in South Africa that want to achieve carbon neutral status by 2030 are significant. But the requirements, difficult in areas with an already mature sustainable energy infrastructure in place, were overwhelming in sub-Saharan Africa. Singh had a choice. We have to do something now.

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Scope 3 is coming: CIOs take note

CIO

Even though sustainability can be an amorphous organizational pursuit, it’s becoming more of an urgent priority all industries must clearly define. Whether that’s through internally motivated ESG efforts or imposed regulations, CIOs, in particular, find themselves increasingly central figures in sustainability initiatives.

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Upscaling sustainability in banking

Capgemini

The financial sector has both the unique opportunity and a responsibility to help us become a more sustainable global society. The primary opportunity to drive change for banks comes in advising clients, us, everyone, on our own transitions to sustainability. The billion-dollar question – is sustainability profitable in banking?

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Climate fintech company Evergrow nabs $7M seed from XYZ Venture Capital, Congruent Ventures and First Round

TechCrunch

“We have set the goal internally of supporting the avoidance, reduction or removal of one gigaton of CO2e by 2030; scaling to a billion tons a year shortly there after,” Richards states. By bringing long-term offtake contracts to the carbon markets, we provide price certainty and unlock capital for these projects,” Richards said.

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