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Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, TX, hosted an Independence Day Celebration, presented by Texas Capital, on Saturday, July 1. Named the “Official Independence Day Celebration for the City of Dallas,” this event was free and open to the public, bringing in over 20,000 attendees.

Participants enjoyed summer treats from a variety of food trucks, family-fun games, live music from Angel White and Prophets and Outlaws and a city-wide pyrotechnic display synchronized to a curated playlist by Dallas native and fan-favorite, DJ Lucy Wrubel. Texas Capital employees and executives attended the event to show support for the community while several were stationed at the Texas Capital tent to welcome attendees and hand out glow in the dark bracelets

As an ongoing corporate sponsor, Texas Capital will continue to partner with Klyde Warren Park throughout with the year for additional community events. To learn more about the important work Klyde Warren Park does in bringing the city of Dallas together, please visit www.klydewarrenpark.org.

About Texas Capital 

Texas Capital Bank (individually and collectively with all affiliates and subsidiaries, “Texas Capital”), is a full-service financial services firm that delivers customized solutions to businesses, entrepreneurs, and individual customers. Founded in 1998, the institution is headquartered in Dallas with offices in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth, and has built a network of clients across the country. With the ability to service clients through their entire lifecycles, Texas Capital has established commercial banking, consumer banking, investment banking and wealth management capabilities. Member FDIC

Entergy has been named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity this year. This prestigious recognition highlights our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees feel valued and respected.

“The recognition by Forbes is another significant milestone for Entergy, as it reflects the collective efforts of our employees and leadership team,” said Taiwan Brown, vice president of diversity and workforce strategies. “By fostering an inclusive workplace, we have not only attracted top talent but also built a strong and diverse workforce that drives innovation and delivers exceptional results.”

The Best Employers for Diversity 2023 were selected based on an independent survey from approximately 45,000 U.S. employees working for companies with a minimum of 1,000 employees. The evaluation was based on: direct recommendations from employees, who provided feedback on a series of statements regarding age, gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQIA+ and general diversity in their current workplace; indirect recommendations from participants who evaluated other employers in their respective industries that stand out either positively or negatively regarding diversity; and extensive research that evaluated how companies fared across a range of diversity-related best-practices, including things like the presence of resource groups, the publication of diversity data, and the share of women in board and executive positions.

As a leader in our communities with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, Entergy strives to create a workplace where individuals from all backgrounds can thrive and contribute their unique perspectives. We regularly monitor progress toward our goal of attracting, developing and retaining a more diverse workforce. Over the last several years, we have made consistent gains in female and diverse race/ethnic representation in the workforce and in management.

Our dedication to diversity extends far beyond our front door, as we actively engage in initiatives and community partnerships that promote social justice and equality. We also focus our supplier diversity efforts on certified businesses that are at least 51% owned, controlled and managed by minority, woman, veteran, disabled veteran and LGBTQ populations.

For more information about our commitment to diversity, visit entergy.com/about/diversity-inclusion

Originally published by Sustainable Brands

By DAVID DARR

One of the most complicated issues with greenhouse gas accounting in our nation’s food and beverage supply chains is Scope 3 emissions and the potential solutions. With companies of all sizes working to reach their climate goals by 2030 or later, we all have a role to play in mitigating the climate crisis.

One way we can do this is by addressing our Scope 3 emissions with solutions that have multiple environmental benefits.

The challenge: Understanding Scope 3 emissions

The call for corporations to lessen their environmental impact through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions continues to grow louder. In 2021, scientists found that the concentration of CO₂ in the planet’s atmosphere is at the highest number in human history at 416 parts per million. Global leaders and consumers alike are stating the importance of emissions reductions through both legislation and the marketplace. Faced with new guidelines, and to meet their companies’ corporate sustainability goals, businesses are turning to carbon reporting to identify and measure where emissions occur — increasing the focus on indirect emissions that occur in company supply chains.

The GHG Protocol, introduced in 2001, is a widely used standard for sustainability reporting. It distinguishes an entity’s indirect and direct emissions into three scopes: Scope 1 (direct use of energy — ex: natural gas, diesel fuel, gasoline) and 2 (indirect use of energy — ex: electricity) are the emissions that are owned or purchased by an entity. Due to the direct ownership of and control over scope 1 and 2 emissions, they are easier to identify and quantify — often making them part of a company’s primary reduction goals. On the other hand, Scope 3 emissions are indirect emissions from the company’s activities throughout its supply chain — including suppliers and consumers. As a result, Scope 3 emissions are the largest portion of emissions, and are hardest to account for and reduce.

Scope 3 emissions often account for more than 70 percent of total carbon emissions for many businesses; so, it is of the utmost importance for companies to assess and address them. For instance, a company can design products meant to be composted or recycled after use to improve use and end-use emissions. But an unaware consumer may dispose of the product in the garbage, thereby defeating the company’s sustainability efforts and the materials’ intended use. A company’s efforts to tackle its Scope 3 emissions need to involve its existing suppliers and customers, necessitating education with every person that is part of its value chain.

The role of the food and beverage industry in addressing Scope 3 emissions

Like other industries, food and beverage value chains have significant Scope 3 emissions. Every year, approximately one-third of the edible food created is lost or wasted. Once food reaches the landfill, all the processes involved in its production, transportation, storage and more are also wasted. Operations involved with the value chain and the decomposition of food in the landfill generate harmful GHGs.

The problem is so dire that the food and beverage industry are being called upon by both national and global bodies to halve food loss and waste by 2030. With the help of programs such as the USDA’s Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Mitigation initiative, the US EPA’s GHG Inventory Development program and United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 12, companies can find the guidance they need to achieve this goal. Additionally, working towards halving food loss and waste will help food and beverage companies mitigate their GHGs across all scopes.

It’s a daunting task, but there are solutions.

A Farm Powered® solution

In the shift to redirect organic waste from landfills and incineration, Vanguard Renewables’ anaerobic digestion and organics recycling areas provide a solution to our national food-waste problem while displacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. Vanguard Renewables combines food waste from food and beverage manufacturers and manure from multi-generational dairy farms in a Farm Powered anaerobic digester — which convert the sugars, fats and other compounds into biogas. This biogas is captured, cleaned to renewable natural gas (RNG) standards, and converted into renewable energy and low-carbon fertilizer for crop applications.

Sequestering organic food and beverage waste and cow manure captures as much as 95 percent of the potential GHGs that would result if the waste was sent to a landfill, or if the farm manure was stored long-term in lagoons. Recycling food waste allows companies to offset emissions from unowned or unoperated parts of their value chain.

Food and beverage companies leading the way

Multinational brewer AB InBev is a striving to achieve net-zero emissions across its value chain by 2040. To achieve this, the company developed a timeline aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5° pathway to ensure that its sustainability goals — including eliminating 25 percent of all scope 1-3 emissions by 2025 — stay on track. Through a study conducted in 2021, AB InBev estimated that Scope 3 emissions represented 85 percent of their total footprint, leading it to engage with value chain partners ranging from suppliers to farmers to collaborate on solutions that reduce GHG emissions, promote regenerative-agriculture practices, and improve climate resilience.

In another example, in 2020 Smithfield Foods announced a 2030 goal to achieve carbon negativity and a 25 percent emissions reduction across scopes 1-3 by 2025. The company’s emissions-reduction goal coincides with its commitment to halve food loss and waste by 2030 as a member of Champions 12.3. Smithfield Foods sees renewable energy as key to achieving its carbon-reduction goals; it has targeted obtaining 50 percent of electricity needs from renewable resources by 2030. Much like Vanguard Renewables, Smithfield is committed to improving the lives of farmers throughout its supply chain by implementing sustainable business and farming practices. In 2022, the company joined the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA) — launched in 2020 by Vanguard, Starbucks, Dairy Farmers of America and Unilever — which brings together major food and beverage manufacturers to boost food waste reduction and recycling and expand renewable energy production across the US.

Closing thoughts

No business can tackle its GHG footprint alone; companies must provide leadership in engagement toward sustainable solutions. But no matter the size of a company, every business has a responsibility to track and reduce its GHG emissions. Enacting sustainable solutions requires cooperation and collaboration between all entities in a company’s value chain. Pre-competitive, cross-industry alliances such as the FPSA are a great tool to engage in real solutions and collaborate with like-minded businesses also determined to meet sustainability goals. But external best practices need to be adapted into companies’ internal business models; food companies can succeed by helping all members of their supply chain to make sustainable improvements.

With the irreversible effects of climate change looming, tackling the enormous amount of Scope 3 emissions in the food value chain and beyond is a daunting task. However, supply chain collaborations and engagements that yield impactful results are critical.

Over the past few years, many companies have set strong intentions around diversity, equity, and inclusion. The trouble is: they don’t always have the strategy in place to deliver on their promises.

The good/bad news is that many companies already have an important component for DEI strategy in place, but it’s often overlooked. Done right, employee volunteering can be an integral part of a company’s DEI efforts. Angela Parker, CEO and co-founder of social impact consulting firm Realized Worth, explained during the Impact Studio conference, “There’s a necessary and very natural overlap between CSR and DEI.”

Unfortunately, many teams approach volunteering and DEI as two distinct and separate efforts. To capitalize on the natural overlap, CSR and HR leaders need to be proactive about aligning their volunteering strategy with their DEI intentions.

Find the intersection between your CSR and DEI goals

The goals and outcomes of corporate social responsibility programs and DEI efforts aren’t exactly the same, but they’re closely related. Often what’s good for volunteering programs is good for DEI efforts and vice versa.

That’s because corporate volunteering programs provide transformative experiences for employees—experiences that embed the goals of DEI in your culture in ways that handouts and lectures never could. Volunteering can boost DEI efforts in the following ways.

Build and strengthen relationships between coworker

When an employee volunteers alongside coworkers from different backgrounds or levels of the organizational chart, they get to know them as people, not stereotypes. Socialized barriers break down as volunteer teams share ideas, solve problems, and make progress together.

Increase career opportunities for employees

Volunteering gives employees from underrepresented groups an opportunity to improve and acquire skills. For example, a member of the customer service department could plan volunteer activities or lead a volunteer project team. They may never have a chance to practice these skills in their regular job—skills that could qualify them for a promotion.

In particular, skills-based volunteering lets employees sharpen their professional skills as they volunteer. Jen Carter, global head of technology and volunteering at Google.org, explained during the Impact Studio conference that she and her team focus on providing skills-based volunteer opportunities. “When you can find that perfect match of [an employee’s] interests and their skill sets and their lived experience, it’s just really incredible.”

Attract and retain employees from diverse populations

A robust volunteer program goes hand in hand with employee resource groups (ERGs). ERGs often build relationships with nonprofits and organize volunteer events. ERGs are also instrumental in helping employees from all backgrounds feel supported and heard at work.

Through volunteering and other ERG work, you can develop tutoring, mentoring, and training programs that help build talent pipelines for your company and other employers in the area. Train employees to provide coaching services to job seekers, new professionals, and small business owners.

Volunteering programs embed DEI in corporate culture

Through volunteering, DEI can become more than a topic of all-staff emails and press releases; it can be something experienced by employees. Volunteering programs take employees out of their usual sphere to work alongside people who come from all walks of life: different economic levels, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, and other backgrounds.

Spending time with co-workers, nonprofit staff, and constituents from different demographics—people they normally don’t hang out with—raises employees’ individual and collective DEI EQ and IQ. Employees are exposed to diverse perspectives, which increases their understanding and empathy. The volunteering experience challenges existing beliefs and biases better than any training session could.

Angela Parker of Realized Worth says volunteering opportunities “guide people to a place where they change from the inside out. Where their actual biases are challenged. Where the assumptions that they have about people groups and social issues are called into question.”

Employees return to work with new insights and perspectives. They learn from fellow human beings how to think and talk about DEI issues, check their own biases, and be better allies. They live the experience instead of reading or watching something about it. Volunteering makes DEI personal, not a job requirement.

Enhance the volunteering experience for everyone involved

Aligning DEI and volunteering efforts benefits everyone. Employees get to be a part of meaningful projects that can transform their world view. And the teams responsible for these programs can work together to harness their collective power. Follow these steps to make it happen.

1. Select diverse teams

An effective corporate volunteering program requires intentionality in decisions, even minor ones. When putting together a volunteer team, invite employees from across the company and at different levels of the organizational chart. Choose people who normally don’t work with each other. ERGs can help mobilize people so you don’t end up with the same few volunteers at every event. You want to reach those who haven’t raised their hand before.

2. Remove barriers

Identify and remove barriers that keep employees from volunteering. Make an effort to ensure that opportunities are accessible to all employees. Be cognizant of employees who can’t volunteer outside the workday. Many people can only volunteer during business hours because of personal responsibilities or transportation issues.

Technology plays a big role here too. If the sign-up process is complicated or confusing, people will opt out. Give employees one place to view volunteer opportunities, sign up, and track their volunteer time off.

3. Choose meaningful projects

Work with nonprofit partners to find projects with purpose. Projects must meet the primary needs of either the nonprofit or its constituents. They can’t be team-building or feel-good activities that were created especially for your company. The project must have the potential to make a real difference to the nonprofit and community.

4. Encourage a collaborative mindset

Volunteers must bring the right mindset and attitude. Angela Parker asks volunteers to “undo their saviorism. To stop seeing themselves as going to help the needy. But instead, to see themselves as entering a relationship.”

Choose projects where volunteers are doing work with a group or community rather than doing something to them.

5. Schedule longer assignments

Volunteers should have a regular assignment where they can develop relationships with people in the nonprofit or community. “To change [volunteers] from the inside out, you have to have experiences over time… [in] a respectful relationship where we are not going to objectify or save those whom we perceive as other, but where we are going to learn and receive from them, and be changed and transformed by them,” Parker says.

A longer assignment gives volunteers time to reflect upon the thoughts and feelings that rise up throughout their experience. This type of self-reflection is required for DEI awareness and allyship.

Angela said, “Being in spaces over repeated periods of time and forcing yourself to deal with your complicity in the issues. Where else is a better, safer, more accessible arena to do that in than the space that is volunteering?”

Make volunteering a pillar of your DEI efforts

In reality, if you’re spending too much time dealing with the administrative details of running a volunteer program, you likely won’t have the bandwidth to do high-level strategy work. And that’s what it takes to connect your volunteering and DEI efforts.

With the right corporate volunteering platform, you can free your team from the busywork while strengthening your volunteering program and your DEI values.

Southern Company

Through its investment in Energy Impact Partners (EIP), Southern Company supports some of the most innovative new technology companies in the energy ecosystem. Southern Company subsidiaries also actively engage with many of these emerging companies in a mutual quest for new ways to improve their business processes.

One such company is Urbint. Urbint uses artificial intelligence in combination with real-world data to predict threats to workers, communities, critical infrastructure and the environment, and to help stop accidents before they happen. Such predictive solutions are potentially game-changing in Southern Company’s pursuit of its core value of Safety First.

Urbint technology has been successfully applied to identify the risk of leaks or third-party damages to underground utilities. Urbint worked with Southern Company Gas to develop the damage prevention solution which was first deployed at Nicor Gas and eventually expanded throughout the enterprise.More recently, Urbint has developed solutions for enhanced worker safety, identifying safety hazards and threats in advance in order to prevent incidents that can result in life-altering injuries or even fatalities.

Georgia Power is currently engaged with Urbint for a Worker Safety pilot at two distribution centers. Urbint is developing a “smart” electronic job safety briefing (JSB) with hazard analysis that will be deployed on field crews’ iPads.

Using information about incidents and “near misses” gleaned from Georgia Power, Urbint’s risk engine will harmonize facts about work site conditions and project data with Urbint’s task and hazard library to identify specific risks, the hazard potential for each job task, and recommend preventive measures. And, as more users embrace the Urbint solution, data gleaned from the experience of others across the nation will provide even greater insights for safety precautions.

“We are excited about this partnership with Urbint,” said Michael Middleton, director of safety and health for Georgia Power. “As we combine our actively-caring safety culture with new technology, data, analytics and artificial intelligence, this partnership has the potential to lead us to a safer tomorrow.”

“Ultimately, our IBEW partners are the end users of this technology,” added Middleton. “They’ve been engaged from the beginning to provide real-time feedback to our leadership team and to Urbint. They know the work and understand the hazards. Their influence will help us create a robust electronic job safety briefing that should ultimately help prevent injuries.”

“We’ve designed a job safety brief that will provide an interactive and engaging experience for the worker. If that doesn’t happen, the JSB won’t optimize for safety and will never achieve full adoption in the field,” explained Urbint CEO Corey Capasso. “By leveraging Urbint to integrate safety science into an engaging tailboard meeting, Georgia Power is making it easier for their teams to identify hazards and implement appropriate controls which can ultimately prevent injuries and even save lives.”

The Worker Safety pilot is ongoing for the duration of 2023.

NEW YORK, July 6, 2023 /3BL/ – The Board of Directors of the UN Global Compact Network USA (Network USA), the American chapter of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, is pleased to announce that Adam Roy Gordon has been appointed as the organization’s next Executive Director.

Network USA was founded in 2007 as the local chapter of the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative that calls on companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with the UN Global Compact Ten Principles and the ambition of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Mr. Gordon, who has been acting Interim Executive Director for the past year, was Network USA’s first employee, joining the organization in 2017. Since then, the organization’s network has grown, increasing its programmatic offerings and engagement with US-based companies and organizations. This year Network USA expanded its staff threefold and recently announced it had reached a milestone of over 1,000 signatories, representing more than $5 trillion in revenue.

“On behalf of the UN Global Compact Network USA Board of Directors, I’m thrilled to welcome Adam as Executive Director,” said Daniella Foster, Network USA Board Chair. “With Adam’s leadership and years of service at Network USA, we hold strong confidence in his ability to navigate the organization’s growth and drive impactful change.”

“I am deeply honored to assume the role of Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Network USA, and I express my sincere gratitude to the Board of Directors for their confidence and this invaluable opportunity,” said Mr. Gordon. “Over the years, I have been continuously inspired by our participants’ strong commitment and progress-driven efforts. The potential for US private sector leadership in driving sustainability fills me with excitement, and I look forward to partnering with our network, the Board, and our tremendous staff to propel the goals and principles of the UN Global Compact to new heights.”

Adam brings an illustrious background in sustainability to his role. Previously, Adam worked at CDP, supporting integrating climate change, water, and deforestation disclosure into corporate performance. He was an EDF Climate Corps Fellow at Colgate-Palmolive Company. He has had diverse experience in sustainability, from advising the Montenegro government on green building policy to founding NYC’s first commercial composting waste hauler. Adam also contributes to The Atlantic and is currently an adjunct professor in Columbia University’s Sustainability Management program.

About UN Global Compact Network USA

The UN Global Compact Network USA is the Local Network chapter of the United Nations Global Compact. As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact calls for companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with the Ten Principles in human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. Our ambition is to accelerate and scale the collective global impact of business by upholding the Ten Principles and delivering Sustainable Development Goals through accountable companies and ecosystems that enable change.

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Email: jessica@globalcompactusa.org

Originally published in International Paper’s 2022 Sustainability Report

Q: How does International Paper view its role and responsibility as a business responding to the demands of a changing world? 

A: Over the past 125 years, International Paper has continually evolved to meet new challenges, anticipating and acting upon what’s next. As a company, we believe our business model should drive sustainable outcomes. In order to deliver on that ambition, integrating sustainability principles into our day-to-day business activities is critical.

By carefully considering our impacts and dependencies, and assessing risks and opportunities associated with our value chain, we are advancing progress on our Vision 2030 goals and addressing challenges in real time. We’re committed to improving our impact because we know that’s what’s needed for a livable world and a thriving society.

Q: How does International Paper continue to make an impact that extends beyond our forests and into local and global communities?

A: Our Vision 2030 Thriving People and Communities target challenges us to improve the lives of 100 million people by 2030 through initiatives that build community resilience by addressing critical needs. Our efforts, through employee volunteerism, product donations and financial contributions, are having a meaningful impact in the places where our employees live and work.

In 2022, International Paper contributed nearly $20 million worldwide to support charitable organizations aligned with our signature causes, positively impacting more than 10 million lives.

Q: What sustainability topics do you see emerging across your industry? What is International Paper doing to respond to this?

A: We recognize that our business model is entirely dependent on nature, and therefore biodiversity and climate are high on the agenda for International Paper and our broader industry.

These two topics are inextricably linked, and our work on Healthy and Abundant Forests addresses the intersection in order to advance nature and climate positive actions. We can’t do this work alone; International Paper is committed to engaging with partners to share knowledge, develop tools to foster adoption of conservation approaches, and constantly challenge ourselves to go further.

About International Paper

International Paper (NYSE: IP) is a global producer of planet-friendly packaging, pulp and other fiber-based products, and one of North America’s largest recyclers. Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., we employ approximately 39,000 colleagues globally who are committed to creating what’s next. We serve customers worldwide, with manufacturing operations in North America, Latin America, North Africa and Europe. Net sales for 2022 were $21.2 billion. Additional information can be found by visiting InternationalPaper.com.

About International Paper – EMEA

In Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), International Paper focuses on the production and marketing of fiber-based packaging and pulp, employing approximately 4,200 people. As a leading supplier of high-quality corrugated containers for a multitude of applications, we serve customers throughout the region from our network of two recycled containerboard mills and 23 box plants in France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and Spain. Pulp production is centered in Gdansk, Poland. Other products available from International Paper in the region include Kraft linerboard and recycled containerboard, as well as pulp.

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July 6, 2023 /3BL/ – Lenovo has once again been named in the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2023, ranking eighth in this list of global companies with supply chains. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 identifies, celebrates and profiles supply chain excellence on a global scale, and by target region and industry. Now in its 19th year, the global ranking is a peer benchmark for chief supply chain officers (CSCO) and their teams, inspiring innovation and leadership.

The Supply Chain Top 25 ranking comprises two main components: business performance and opinion. Business performance in the form of public financial and ESG (environmental, social, governance) data provides a view into how companies have performed in the past three years, while the opinion component offers an eye to future potential and reflects leadership in the supply chain community. These two components are combined into a total composite score.

Lenovo has fully embraced digital transformation within its complex and global supply chain, and by using technologies including 5G, AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Big Data, and IoT, it has reduced lead times for customers by over ten days while shipping four devices per second. At this year’s World Economic Forum, Lenovo’s Hefei Factory, LCFC, was added to WEF’s Global Lighthouse Network of 132 leading manufacturers, a group of global factories chosen for their leadership and integration of fourth industrial revolution technologies (41R).

Lenovo’s supply chain is one of the company’s core strengths, comprising a unique global hybrid manufacturing footprint of more than 35 factories. Last year, Lenovo opened its first European in-house manufacturing facility in Budapest, Hungary. Primarily focused on building server infrastructure, storage systems, and high-end PC workstations, this facility has reduced customer delivery times throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As part of Lenovo’s global/local model, building devices locally dramatically reduces the freight miles these products incur, providing more efficient and sustainable transportation options.

Supply chain security is a top priority for Lenovo, and the company has invested heavily in developing an innovative and resilient supply chain. Lenovo’s core security programs are designed to ensure end-to-end security across all aspects of the supply chain. This spans from robust cybersecurity operations to its trusted supplier program that manages third-party risk. Lenovo has also implemented strong physical security measures throughout its logistics process to safeguard its products from manufacturing to delivery and operationalization in customers’ environments.

Che Min (Jammi) Tu, Senior Vice President and Group Operations Officer, Lenovo said, “The continued digitalization of Lenovo’s supply chains drives benefits for Lenovo’s customers around the world and helps us adapt as the world changes. By continuing to invest in new technologies, we’ve seen several benefits, including improving forecast modeling with AI, and improving scheduling time efficiency.”

Lenovo was in the first group of companies to receive Net-Zero validation from Science Based Targets initiative and the first PC and smartphone maker with targets validated by the Net-Zero Standard. In the last year, the company has also begun working with Maersk, and, Kuehne and Nagel for more sustainable ocean and air freight transportation.

Tu concluded, “As a global technology leader, Lenovo has been committed to reducing its emissions for more than a decade, and as part of our net-zero commitments, we’re currently focused on reducing scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.”

Read the full Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 Report here.

Gartner Press Release, Gartner Announces Rankings of the 2023 Global Supply Chain Top 25, May 24, 2023

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About Lenovo

Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #171 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into growth areas that fuel the advancement of ‘New IT’ technologies (client, edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage, mobile, software, solutions, and services. This transformation and Lenovo’s world-changing innovation are building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more, visit https://www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

June 20 was World Refugee Day. Events like the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and earthquake in Turkey & Syria have devastated communities worldwide. To support global disaster response efforts, Expedia Group partners with the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Together with the IRC, we aim to further our collective impact. You can learn more about our partnership in the video above.

VERGE 23, taking place October 24-26, 2023 in San Jose, CA, is the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. It is the center of gravity for the climate community — leaders from business, government, solution providers and startups — working together to address the climate crisis.

The unprecedented challenges we face today present equally unprecedented opportunities to reimagine and redesign our world to be more prosperous, sustainable and resilient. The key programs that comprise VERGE 23 — Buildings, Carbon, Energy, Food, Startups and Transport — focus on seizing these opportunities.

“The technologies to address the climate crisis are bountiful, and scaling up just in time to meet the challenge of this ‘decisive decade’,” said Shana Rappaport, Senior Vice President of Climate Tech and Executive Director of VERGE. “It is the home for business and government leaders, entrepreneurs and investors seeking to leverage these solutions to create an ecologically thriving, economically prosperous and socially just world.”

This year’s program is designed to enable intimacy at scale, providing an unprecedented number of opportunities to forge meaningful connections with new potential customers, partners and allies, including small group discussions, roundtable lunches, topic-specific networking and more.

Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with hundreds of cutting-edge climate tech companies offering interactive demonstrations of their leading climate tech solutions at the largest-ever VERGE Expo.

Furthermore, this year’s event aims to spark conversations and inspire change, transcending traditional boundaries through the power of performances, installations and digital artwork throughout the venue.

Learn more and use the code 3BLV23 at registration to receive 10% off the All-Access Pass: