ASOS reveals 30% reduction in carbon emissions across its operations.

ASOS has revealed that after launching its sustainability strategy in 2015 it has reduced carbon emissions by 30% across its operations.

ASOS has had success with its plan to reduce carbon emissions.

The clothing brand’s carbon strategy has allowed the company to cut emissions from its operations and delivery scheme.

In 2015, ASOS launched its Carbon 2020 strategy with a target to reduce operational carbon emissions per customer order every year until 2020.

The strategy defined key ambitions for ASOS, which have driven forward action on three main fronts: increasing energy efficiency, reducing delivery and packaging emissions, and increasing our use of renewable energy.

Since 2015, Carbon 2020 has delivered significant progress in each of these areas throughout the business, achieving a 30% reduction in carbon emissions per order, with reductions noted in each consecutive reporting year.

Read the ClimateAction story by Rachel Cooper - “ASOS reveals 30% reduction in carbon emissions across its operations.”

This environmental group is launching its own satellite to learn more about greenhouse gas leaks

When the Environmental Defense Fund told commercial space guru Tom Ingersoll that it wanted to launch a satellite to measure methane from oil and gas operations, he says his reaction was “Whoa! You guys want to do what?”

A rendering by the Environmental Defense
Fund of a methane-detecting satellite. 

Yet that’s what the EDF is doing. It is well on its way toward raising about $40 million. It has tapped into the work of Harvard University researchers to fine tune sensors. And it has reached out to Ingersoll and others in the commercial space business to create a device that will be able to measure methane emissions on a 125-mile wide swath with pixel resolution of less than  five-eighths of a mile.

EDF will also get support from TED Talks, which hopes to spur fundraising for a variety of causes through its “Audacious Project.”

Read Steven Mufson’s story from The Washington Post - “This environmental group is launching its own satellite to learn more about greenhouse gas leaks.”