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Tag: Climate Pledge

How Cvent lowers carbon emissions and provides sustainable meeting options using AWS

A recent survey of corporate travel managers and meeting planners across the United States, Canada, and several European countries reported that 55 percent of company respondents said their organization has a company-wide carbon emissions reduction target. However, only 9 percent have a target for company-hosted meetings and events. The study published by the Global Business […]

The future of more sustainable travel starts with the cloud

“Can you imagine if we all moved to the cloud?” It sounds like a perfect tagline for an Amazon Web Services (AWS) commercial, doesn’t it? Shawn Seaton, Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture and Distinguished Cloud Architect for Choice Hotels, posed this question to the audience at AWS re:Invent 2022 during the session, Transforming hospitality for the […]

Data architectures to track Scope 3 emissions for retailers

Introduction Sustainability is a topic of increasing interest and concern after the recent publication from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). On April 4, 2022, the IPCC published the third part (WG III) of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), entitled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. This report explains that current plans to […]

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Driving Sustainability in Retail through Transparent Measurement

With consumers increasingly making purchases based on the sustainability practices of a brand, retail brands are making public commitments to environmentally-friendly manufacturing and operating practices. Ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement, Amazon co-created the climate pledge in 2019 for organizations looking to be net-zero carbon by 2040, and over 100 enterprises have since signed […]