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Chemical maker DuPont (DD.N) on Monday increased its 2030 Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal to 50% and also set a new 2030 Scope 3 GHG emissions reduction goal of 25% from a base year of 2020. Amid the global push for decisive action against climate change, the world's top companies have set varying targets to reduce GHG emissions from their operations and the use of the products they sell. Last year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled its long-anticipated draft rule under which companies would disclose their own direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, known as Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. It would also require companies to disclose greenhouse gases generated by suppliers and partners, known as Scope 3 emissions. DuPont said it was strengthening its 2030 emission reduction targets as it surpassed its goal of 30% at the end of 2022.
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Is DuPont hiding it's total release of it's plastic pollution? Check out the total matter here: https://www.corporatesecretary.com/articles/esg/32563/dupont-shareholders-back-plastic-pollution-report-proposal
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This climate action is a bit unconventional and difficult to grasp. It is about using alternative refrigerant gasses that have a lower global warming potential (GWP). Simply put, the stuff which cools us down is making the planet warmer. Another ironic coincidence. But pay attention, because this climate action is one of the most powerful and under recognised solutions. (All information in this post comes from this source https://drawdown.org/solutions/alternative-refrigerants) Alternative refrigerants could prevent 50 billion tons of CO2 equivalent by 2050. To put this into perspective, us humans release over 36 billion tons of CO2 each year. Project Drawdown defines this action as “the gradual replacement of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in a variety of applications by alternative refrigerants with significantly lower global warming potential (GWP) including ammonia, carbon dioxide, propane and isobutane among others.“ Now you understand why I said it was a bit confusing. This is not something most of us have had the pleasure of thinking about before, but I’ll give it a go trying to make sense of it for anyone reading. We know these refrigerant gasses have a high GWP but how do they enter the atmosphere? Most of the time, they are released during the production process, through leakages in existing products and during end-of-life disposal. Along with the other recommendations in the report, we need to rapidly transition to lower GWP refrigerant gasses, we need to prevent leakages and we need to create better management for disposal. This 50 gigaton CO2 sequestration opportunity only takes into account switching to alternative gasses. Refrigerant management sequesters another 57 gigatons of CO2 but that is the topic for another post. From reading the fairly complicated Drawdown technical summary, it seems that there is no silver bullet for this problem. Work still needs to be done on isolating a suitable alternative as each option has it’s tradeoffs. But what is crystal clear is that we need to put significant investment into this, otherwise the cost of inaction will outweigh the cost of action. I have only scratched the surface of this complex problem area, so if you are passionate about solving this, make sure you read the technical summary in depth and build upon the work of Project Drawdown. What part will DuPont play in this? How will they ensure they are putting significant investment into this problem area? How can we make sure they are kept accountable? How are they measuring their progress? Are they communicating their commitment? These are questions I would like to ask DuPont and I invite them to write a response on the We Don’t Have Time platform. If enough of us agree to this post, WDHT will reach out to DuPont for a response. The good news is that DuPont have co-developed an alternative refrigerant with a GWP of 4 (4x more potent than CO2). This is a huge step forward as the current most popular gas has a GWP of 1430. This press release https://www.dupont.com/knowledge/hvac-sustainability.html states that they will have a large scale plant operating in 2015. I’d love an update on the progress so I am using this Climate Review as my attempt at starting a conversation. Let's have a climate dialogue and together we can be part of the solution.
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For more on @DuPont so called "action" in terms of the climate please read this story: https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/ea6902ec-4553-4a8a-a30f-b9945b3974cc
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More and more companies should be commited like Dupont,in lowering their carbon emmision.
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Other Companies should follow suit to reduce carbon emissions.