Reducing Scope 2 and Scope 3 carbon emissions can be complicated for global organizations; the process can be long and expensive, and it can be difficult to prove the return on investment. Hearing from leading experts in this field can make an immense impact on your plans. During this event C2C's Uk and Ireland community heard from Trinity Lloyd, Energy Transition and Sustainability Specialist at Google Cloud, and Eric Jen, CEO and Founder of Ren Energy. The two discussed how technology can transform the decarbonization process, reduce time to value, and activate an ecosystem of shared cost. As always, there was plenty of time for audience questions.
Here are some of the key takeaways from this session:
- Google's energy consumption is the equivalent of that of a small country.
- Google hit 100% renewable in 2017, and in 2020 they limited their carbon legacy impact to 1998.
- Getting to 100% renewable energy is a process. It took 10 years for Google to get from carbon neutral to 100% renewable energy.
- Google has partnered with Ren Energy to get GCP customers carbon neutral and renewable.
- In 2018, Eric Jen, founder and CEO of Ren Energy, built a corporate renewable energy program at Nike that was co-ranked #1 in the world with Apple, Inc. These accolades highlighted his forward-looking approach to Scope 3 emissions in the supply chain in addition to traditional Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
- Ren is a Google supported sustainability fulfillment platform that transitions corporations to carbon neutral by aggregating energy demand and sourcing the most renewable solutions.
- To address the climate crisis, businesses need to start looking at each other and working together. If they don't, then we will all be working independently, going about our business in uncoordinated chaos, individually trying to accomplish our carbon reduction goals. This doesn't work, and it's not getting us where we need to be.
Watch the full recording of the session below:
Looking for more events like this? Join C2C Connect: UK & Ireland again on March 17, 2022 for this event with Cloud Developer Advocate Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine: