The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Ask anyone who’s been a CEO, CFO or any other variety of C-suite executive and they’ll tell you the roles today are very different from what they were 20 years ago. Different challenges demand different skills, experiences and aptitudes, and […]
The attorneys general of 23 states want details about the Science Based Targets initiative’s new net-zero guidance for financial institutions, suggesting that it violates antitrust laws by attempting to “squeeze important American industries into eliminating carbon dioxide production by some future date.” The request, coordinated by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, is outlined in an […]
Ingka Group is backing Shanghai-based plastics recycler Re-mall as part of a planned $1.16 billion investment in companies that can help IKEA’s largest retailer meet its goals of repurposing and reusing more materials in the products it sells. The move is Ingka’s first in support of a circular economy infrastructure company in China, one of […]
One fact often lost in coverage of the enormous electricity appetite of artificial intelligence data centers: At least one-third of the power goes toward keeping the servers, networking gear, hard drives and other gadgets from overheating. Yet, the market for data center cooling technologies is poised to double over the next seven years, reaching a […]
When Dow decommissions the natural gas turbines at its Seadrift, Texas, plastics manufacturing site later this decade, it plans to switch on a first-of-its-kind small nuclear plant instead. The project, awaiting a construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that was requested in March, is backed by up to $1.2 billion from the Department of […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Brands tend to get lots of kudos and fanfare when they launch a resale program. For some, this is the completion of the goal — the box is checked and teams will move on to their next marketing strategy task. […]
Sometimes it’s hard to tell what corporate actions are really making a difference. But according to a survey of more than 800 sustainability experts, these actions are the most impactful over the next five years: Tech innovation and R&D (70 percent) Corporate sustainability-linked compensation (65 percent) Commercialization of sustainability via products and services (65 percent) […]
An increasingly common narrative in corporate environmental reports is the one about “avoided emissions,” a.k.a. Scope 4. Roughly 2,400 companies reporting to disclosure service CDP in 2022 used some variation of the term — more than 10 percent of those that submitted data. The challenge with such declarations is that the methodologies used to support them […]
American consumers and businesses are experiencing sticker shock this summer when they open their electricity bills. A combination of soaring demand from power-hungry data centers, scorching weather and pass-along costs from utility infrastructure investments is driving electricity prices — which had been relatively stable for a decade or so prior to the pandemic — to […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis. Imagine a future where you can set reusable packaging out on your porch for collection, bring bottles back to the store to get a hefty deposit, and where curbside composting pickup is just as widely available as recycling collection. This […]