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Watch: How Green Is the Digital Economy?

David Rejeski, visitor scholar at the Environmental Law Institute, describes efforts to obtain objective information about the “green” impacts of technological innovations such as blockchain, platform sharing and artificial intelligence.

How Green Is the Digital Economy?

Four Essentials for a Greener Fulfillment Strategy

From smart cartonization to last-mile delivery and beyond, supply chains offer fertile ground for new technologies to improve sustainability by trimming wasted fuel, materials and time.

Four Essentials for a Greener Fulfillment Strategy

How the Government Can Ramp Up Climate Tech Investment

Without new technologies, it will be impossible to rein in emissions from the most-carbon intensive sectors of the economy such as heavy industry and long-distance transport.

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Cocoa Giant Can Now Trace Majority of Its Beans

Cocoa giant Olam International Ltd. can now trace the supply of the majority of the beans it buys, stepping up sustainability efforts as customers and governments increasingly want to know where food comes from and whether it was ethically produced.

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Port of Rotterdam Pilot Uses AI Microgrid to Trade Renewables

The Port of Rotterdam is testing technology to manage and trade renewable energy consumption, finding the effort has already made a significant cost savings.

Shipping containers sit on the deck of cargo ship One Crane, docked at the Port of Rotterdam, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Photo: Bloomberg.

How Technology Provides a Crucial Link in Ethical Supply Chains

With companies relying increasingly on complex global supply chains, their need for verifiable manufacturing ethics and supplier transparency is growing.

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Carbon Border Tax Emerges in EU as Weapon to Protect Green Deal

The first glimpse is emerging of a levy the European Union is drawing up to ensure its Green Deal environmental rules aren’t undone by nations with weaker standards.

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Are Batteries the Trade War China’s Already Won?

The global battery market will be worth about $116 billion a year by 2030 — up from around $28 billion now. But the U.S. is on course to capture only a small piece of that.

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Amazon, GM Among Firms to Share Private Diversity Data

More than thirty of the largest U.S. companies have agreed to new disclosures of previously private race, gender and ethnicity workforce data.

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In the Pandemic, Factories’ Commitment to Human Rights Is Slipping

As if damage to people and supply chains by the coronavirus pandemic and economic freefall weren’t bad enough, add to it the greater difficulty of monitoring human rights violations in distant farms and factories.

An employee gathers protective face masks from a production line conveyor. Photo: Bloomberg.

Amazon’s Fleet of Used Airplanes Makes Green Pledge Harder to Keep

Airlines say their newer generation jets are 20% more fuel efficient than the models they’re phasing out, many of which end up in the fleets of cargo carriers.

An Amazon Air cargo jet sits on a tarmac. Photo: Bloomberg.

Airbus Unveils Hydrogen Designs for Zero-Emission Flight

The European planemaker unveiled three designs it’s studying to build hydrogen-powered aircraft as it races to bring a zero-carbon passenger plane into service by 2035.

An employee adjusts a valve on the cold box for liquid hydrogen (LH2) production. Photo: Bloomberg.

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