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Microsoft’s climate fund backs sustainable jet fuel company Dimensional Energy

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The increasing need to reduce carbon emissions drives many industries, including airlines and transportation, to seek sustainable alternatives to meet emission reduction targets and fulfill corporate social responsibility commitments.

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

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Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. The beauty industry produces over 120 billion units of packaging every year, little of which is recycled. More posts by this contributor.

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AI as a catalyst for ESG: Empowering CIOs to drive sustainable innovation

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Companies seeking to align their technology investments with ESG goals can draw inspiration from global frameworks like the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) , which offer a blueprint for addressing environmental and social challenges worldwide.

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The cloud’s green revolution: Balancing digital growth with sustainability in the age of AI

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While it enables unprecedented innovation and efficiency, it also raises critical environmental concerns, such as rising energy demands, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable and efficient practices. Businesses face a choice: stick with existing systems or adopt new software to streamline sustainability reporting.

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The space industry is starting a green revolution

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As it turns out, the space travel industry, with its several dozen launches per year, is responsible for the same amount of carbon emissions as the global aviation industry. With the commercial space industry maturing at a rapid pace, we are seeing a steady increase in the number of rocket launches every year.

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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

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Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with. Customer demand is also fueling the trend, Bailkoski says.