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 # Gap Announces 50 Percent Cut in GHG Emissions by 2020

 

##### by Vikas Vij

 

 

 Mar 4, 2016 8:00 AM ET

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A number of companies have joined the international effort to tackle climate change, building upon the momentum of the landmark Paris Agreement reached at the 2015 United Nations climate change summit, COP 21.

Gap Inc. has announced an ambitious new climate goal to cut down absolute GHG emissions globally across all owned and operated facilities by 50 percent from 2015 levels by the end of 2020.

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*Vikas is a staff writer for the Sustainable Development news and editorial section on Justmeans. He is an MBA with 20 years of managerial and entrepreneurial experience and global travel. He is the author of "The Power of Money" (Scholars, 2003), a book that presents a revolutionary monetary economic theory on poverty alleviation in the developing world. Vikas is also the official writer for an international social project for developing nations "Decisions for Life" run in collaboration between the ILO, the University of Amsterdam and the Indian Institute of Management.*



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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