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Hudson Pacific Properties Achieves 100% Carbon Neutrality Across All Operations
LABBC Partner Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. announced that it is fully carbon neutral across all operations. As part of its Better Blueprint platform, the company had previously committed to being net zero carbon by 2025, but has achieved the goal early through a combination of energy efficiency, on-site renewables, renewable energy certificates and verified emission reduction credits. These efforts have eliminated the Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by the company’s energy use of its buildings.
Cut Costs, Reduce Carbon, and Improve Health with Demand Flexibility
As variable renewables and distributed generation surge to replace fossil fuels, the electrical grid must become more agile and data-driven to keep the lights on. And we cannot rely solely on traditional supply-side resources. Our decarbonized future will require flexibility on the demand side as well.
Why Nature is the Next Frontier for Sustainable Business
Businesses are increasingly seeing that climate action is not only the right thing to do but it brings material benefits such as increased investment, improved reputation and overall competitive advantage. However, climate action alone is no longer enough to fend off the multiple environmental crises that our planet is facing.
Companies need to look holistically at all their impacts and dependencies on both climate and nature. We need to halve emissions by 2030, and we need to reverse nature loss. Neither is possible without the other.
Why Some U.S. Cities Are Plotting a 'Green Recovery' After the Pandemic
The cars that typically throng the huge highways weaving through Los Angeles are such an established part of the city’s fabric that when the coronavirus pandemic hit, their sudden absence felt bizarre to locals, even eerie. But many Angelenos have now discovered a new sort of relationship with their streets.
Register Today: Women In Green Bi-Annual Virtual Breakfast Panel
Join USGBC-LA’s Women in Green for a conversation on ‘How To Build Back Better:The Nexus of the Political Crisis and the Climate Crisis.’
When: September 30, 9am PDT
Source: Hudson Pacific Properties