A New Era of Federal Procurement: Managing Climate Risks and Promoting Sustainable Supply Chains
As the world’s largest buyer of products and services, with roughly $690 billion in products and services purchased each year, the U.S. government has enormous climate-related risks and opportunities in its supply chains. If supply chain disruptions caused by extreme weather and other climate risks are not managed effectively, taxpayers and program delivery—including programs designed to protect our national security—will suffer.
April 29, 2024 - 3:30 pm - 4:30 EDT
The Uses and Limits of Global Climate Conferences
COP-28 is now a memory, and what I often call the “Annual Climate Trade Show” has ended along with its typical manufactured controversies and silly symbolic battles. My favorite this year was “should fossil fuels be phased out or phased down?”
The Next Climate Frontier – Industrial Decarbonization
Tackling industrial greenhouse gas emissions is emerging as the next frontier in the crucial transition to a clean energy economy.
While significant strides have been made in finding cost-effective alternatives to fossil fuel use in power generation, transportation, agriculture, and building sectors, decarbonizing industrial processes poses a much greater challenge - high process heat requirements.
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