The 206th meal of the tear-resistant sister's meal
Ingredients:2021.03.19-2022.03.25
Menu: PepsiCo, Beiersdorf, Google, Apple, DHL, retail giant Target, etc
Dining venue: Tear Sister's Day Cafe
Meal times: Friday every week
Water conservation
1. "Pepsi Rural Revitalization Agriculture Water-saving Project Officially Launched"
On March 23, on the occasion of the 30th World Water Day, PepsiCo announced that it would donate US$1 million to the China Women's Development Foundation to launch the "Pepsi Rural Revitalization Agricultural Water Conservation Project", becoming the first enterprise to support the WOMEN's Foundation's agricultural water use project and the largest donor to the WOMEN's Foundation's "Mother Water Cellar" and its upgrading project.
The "Pepsi Rural Revitalization Agricultural Water Conservation Project" aims to improve agricultural productivity and support rural revitalization by improving the agricultural water supply system and increasing the effective utilization coefficient of irrigation water, saving water resources and helping to improve agricultural productivity. The "PepsiCo Rural Revitalization Agricultural Water-saving Project" plans to build 12 agricultural water supply projects in Gansu, Shaanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and other provinces (regions) within 3 years, carry out water-saving agricultural training, improve water-saving agricultural technology, and increase the effective utilization coefficient of farmland irrigation water in pilot areas to more than 0.6, compared with the national sustainable agricultural development plan, achieve the target 6 years ahead of schedule, and help about 6,000 people increase production and income. The project will also encourage and promote rural women to participate in green agriculture through online water-saving agriculture training, and promote rural revitalization, with an estimated total benefit of 20,000 people. Donations to the project are managed by Gift to Asia. (Source: Financial Report Network)
While helping the benign operation of the earth's ecosystem and promoting the development of rural communities, the development of the PepsiCo Rural Revitalization Agricultural Water-saving Project is a useful attempt for public welfare projects to participate in rural revitalization, and the strength and breadth of enterprises' support for national rural revitalization and new rural construction are further enhanced.
Carbon neutral
2. "German daily chemical giant Beiersdorf signs a solar roof agreement with Total Energy"
Recently, Beiersdorf, one of the world's largest skincare brands, signed a long-term agreement with TotalEnergies for rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) installations to provide 20% of the electricity for Beiersdorf's factory in Indonesia with green energy.
Under the agreement, The Beiersdorf site will be equipped with a 540 kWp solar power system installed by Total Energy. The system is expected to be operational from June 2022. The 830MWh of electricity generated by the system per year will reduce carbon emissions by about 660 tons per year, which is equivalent to charging 71 million smartphones per year. (Source: PR Newswire)
For production enterprises, the use of non-fossil energy is a requirement to achieve carbon reduction in their own operations and products, which is already the trend of the times. For energy companies, this is a new track and a huge market demand for the future.
3. "Google-backed startup launches free carbon calculator for SMEs"
On March 18, Carbon Accounting Software provider Normative announced the launch of a commercial carbon calculator designed to enable small businesses to measure and understand their carbon emissions to support efforts to reduce emissions. Normative's new carbon calculator was developed with the support of Google.org Fellowship, a program that aims to match Google employees with nonprofits and civic entities to help build scalable solutions.
Google provided Normative with a team of 12 software engineers, user experience designers and product managers who worked on the project for six months. The new carbon calculator will be made available free of charge through the SME Climate Hub, a UN-backed initiative that encourages small and medium-sized companies to commit to halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. (Source: Economic Herald for Sustainable Development)
Sustainable development and the fight against climate change are not just a matter for large companies, SMEs need to act, but also need more support and help. Empowering small and medium-sized enterprises to save energy and reduce carbon is an important sustainable development issue for large companies, especially large technology companies.
4. "Apple will use low-carbon aluminum for the iPhone SE and produce oxygen in the smelting process"
On March 24, Apple issued a press release announcing that it will use commercially pure low-carbon metal aluminum produced by ELYSIS for the iPhone SE model. Driven by Apple's $4.7 billion green bond investment, ELYSIS produced the first commercially pure primary aluminum on an industrial scale for use in Apple products, Apple said. It is said that the technology does not produce greenhouse gases in the process of smelting aluminum metal, but produces oxygen.
Apple will purchase the material from ELYSIS and plans to use it for the iPhone SE model. At the same time, Apple said that the aluminum metal is produced through hydropower to reduce the carbon footprint in the production process. (Source: Phoenix Technology)
It can be seen that Apple's investment is promoting the birth of breakthrough technologies, and these technologies are also helping Apple reduce the carbon footprint of the materials it uses. The use of only recyclable and renewable materials in all products to protect the earth's limited resources is the business logic of the future, not just social responsibility.
5. "International logistics giant DHL reaches 800 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel deal"
DHL Express announced on March 22 that it has confirmed that it will launch a new strategic cooperation with BP and Neste. The two strategic partners will supply dhl Express with more than 800 million litres of sustainable aviation fuel over the next five years. This will be one of the largest sustainable aviation fuel deals in the aviation industry to date.
DhL said that together with its previously announced sustainable aviation fuel in use at airports in San Francisco, East Midland and Amsterdam, DHL Express will achieve more than 50 percent of its goal of "using sustainable aviation fuel in air transport by 10 percent by 2026." Through the latest strategic partnership, DHL Express expects to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 2 million tonnes over the lifetime of aviation fuel, equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 400,000 passenger cars.
DhL Express delivers more than 480 million urgent documents and packages each year through a logistics network in 220 countries and territories around the world, all of which use sustainable aviation fuel (the current aviation fuel standard is up to 50%), and this 800 million liters of fuel can support nearly 1,000 DHL Boeing 777 freighters to operate on their routes between their Cincinnati hub in the United States and Leipzig hub in Germany for nearly 12 years, equivalent to 12,000 sub-carbon neutral long-haul flights. (Source: China News Network)
As a logistics enterprise serving the whole world, it is of great significance and value to provide customers with greener and more sustainable solutions. In the future, our logistics giants will also need to continuously expand their partnerships with sustainable aviation fuel suppliers to continuously increase the proportion of sustainable aviation fuel used in their air transport.
6. "Retail giant Target launches its first net-zero energy store and will test emissions reduction innovations"
On March 17, retail giant Target launched its first net-zero energy store in Vesta, California, which will generate more renewable energy than it uses and will test emissions reduction innovations.
Net zero storage will generate energy through 3420 solar panels on its roof and carport canopy. Target said the site expects to generate as much as 10 percent of its energy surplus per year, which can be transmitted back to the local grid. The building will also be heated by rooftop solar panels instead of natural gas, and Target will scale up the entire chain by 2040 to reduce emissions from its direct operations by 20 percent.
Target said innovations in its stores and facilities support its sustainability strategy, Target Forward, which includes a corporate-wide goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 and a goal of using 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources for its operations by 2030. (Source: Economic Herald for Sustainable Development)
Not only can it meet its own demand for renewable energy, but it can also feed the remaining electricity back into the grid, so that community residents can also use green electricity. As more and more corporate stores and factories implement such energy models, the energy system will also undergo a radical transformation.
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