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 # No Time to Waste: How Digitalization Can Solve the Carbon Crisis

 


 

 Jun 12, 2019 11:35 AM ET

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[Originally published on CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/advertorial/no-time-to-waste-how-digitalization-can-solve-the-carbon-crisis/)

**So what do we do now?**

That may not seem much, but every rise in temperature increases the risk of extreme and life-threatening weather patterns, water shortages, coastal floods and other harmful environmental effects.

Thus, IPCC expects countries and companies to have even more ambitious goals to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius which would require “rapid and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching “net zero” around 2050. So how can companies adapt and see an immediate, positive impact?

**Sustainability Impacts**

Schneider Electric itself is committed to reach carbon neutrality by 2030 and being powered by 80% renewable electricity by 2020. The company has also helped many other RE100 signees to reach the same goal. After taking steps for efficiency, the next step, if more energy is needed, is to adopt renewables by the different ways of buying it. That combination of efficiency and fostering renewable energy has also helped Schneider to get closer to its goal of avoiding 120 million tons of CO2 on behalf of their customers by 2020.

[Read more here](https://www.cnbc.com/advertorial/no-time-to-waste-how-digitalization-can-solve-the-carbon-crisis/)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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