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September 14, 2020 03:36 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436228/google-climate-change-pledge-2030-renewable-energy
Google announced one of the biggest green pledges from tech yet
Google CEO Sundar Pichai | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Google just made one of Big Tech’s most ambitious environmental commitments: it will work to run its operations purely on renewable energy by 2030. It also announced that as of today, it has purchased enough carbon offsets to essentially cancel out all the planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions the company has released since it was founded in 1998.
Google has been carbon neutral each year since 2007, which means that it offsets the emissions it generates from burning fossil fuels by investing in renewable energy projects or other initiatives that draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into storage. But relying on offsets doesn’t actually wean the company off fossil fuels. Google released 4.9 million metric tons of greenhouse...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21436228/google-climate-change-pledge-2030-renewable-energy
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