November 19, 2024
As sun-baked wild grapes shift to chrysanthemums and pumpkins, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. continues to help its members progress toward their sustainability goals.
In this Quarterly Newsletter, you’ll find Member-Client spotlights, new SR Inc team member introductions, Net Zero Consortium for Buyers news, upcoming event announcements, and more. For updates on SR Inc’s many exciting developments, be sure to follow our LinkedIn page as the quarter unfolds.
— Brittany Nammour
Ducks & Swans, Freedom & Dignity: Defining Categories & Making Choices
As we head into a remarkably polarized U.S. election, questions on Corporate Sustainability swirl like falling leaves. From underlying questions on corporations’ role in society to the details of carbon accounting, Directors of Corporate Sustainability regard an unclear path.
Consequently, it is helpful to reflect on fundamental principles—and how decisions aligned with those principles can help create long-term value with diverse, global stakeholders.
Read the full Service Leader message here.
Cohu is a global technology leader supplying test, automation, inspection, and metrology products and services to the semiconductor industry. SR Inc looks forward to collaborating with Cohu to enhance their sustainability initiatives while they continue to enable optimized yield and productivity, accelerating their customers’ manufacturing time-to-market.
Sonic Healthcare is a global medical diagnostics company providing laboratory medicine, pathology, radiology, and primary care medical services across multiple countries. SR Inc is thrilled to assist Sonic Healthcare in their efforts to maintain sustainable practices while delivering high-quality diagnostic services to hospitals, medical practitioners, and community health services.
Vantage Data Centers is a leading provider of hyperscale data center campuses for cloud providers, hyper-scalers, and large enterprises across North America and Europe. SR Inc is excited to support Vantage Data Centers with its commitment to sustainability, including their focus on energy efficiency and partnering with customers to advance technology while remaining good corporate citizens.
Sarah will help lead marketing and communications efforts for SR Inc’s Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable (SBER), defining and promoting Member Executives’ best practices in enterprise decarbonization.
Jerry will work with SBER to expand our Member-Client base and advance the company’s global enterprise efforts.
On October 1st, SR Inc sponsored the Commonwealth Climate Coalition’s third Higher Education Roundtable on cleantech workforce development. The series connects labor, education, and government stakeholders to discuss how their collaboration could help overcome barriers to scaling Massachusetts’ cleantech workforce to what the state’s clean energy goals require.
Jim Boyle, SR Inc’s CEO & Founder, and Julia Rothfield, Manager of Research & Advisory Services, connected with European clean energy buyers and developers on their September Berlin trip.
Jim presented on VPPA 2.0, a new transaction type that optimizes aggregated procurement, and the importance of preserving the global energy attribute certificate market’s credibility.
Power Magazine, Solar Industry Magazine, Renewables Now, and Solar Power World covered the announcement of the NZCB’s fourth aggregated procurement. The 135-megawatt offtake of the Prairie Solar project in Champagne County, Illinois helps to cause renewable energy in a carbon-intensive portion of the nation’s grid.
Learn more here.
See the NZCB’s quarterly analysis of wind and solar VPPA opportunities across the U.S. This index offers nine key takeaways on how to understand this season’s variation.
Learn more here.
One of Sustainability Magazine’s 2024 Top 10 Women in ESG, Faith Taylor has charted Kyndryl’s sustainability efforts since 2021. She recently worked with SR Inc to develop Science Based Targets, which got approved this fall, and released Kyndryl’s second corporate citizenship report since its 2021 inception.
We’re excited to welcome Faith as the keynote speaker of Summit for Sustainable Business VIII: Decarbonizing Corporate Global Operations. We look forward to learning from her leadership journey, Kyndryl’s sustainability advancements, and her insights into whether enterprises can center human dignity as they respond to human-caused climate change.
Dedicated to quality, craftsmanship, and timelessness, Aritzia reported sustainability milestones including:
A pioneer in networking innovation, Silicon Valley-based Juniper Networks reported sustainability milestones including:
Synopsys Inc focuses its “Smart Future” strategy on how its design automation tools and intellectual property can most promote human progress. Its report details environmental initiatives including:
