IKEA: Making a $40 Billion Company Climate Certain
IKEA generates 0.1 p.c of the sphere’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Can this $40 billion multinational firm change into climate sure by 2030?
Jesper Brodin, CEO of Ingka Neighborhood, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss about how one can develop a industrial while investing in renewable vitality, sourcing sustainable materials, and constructing a spherical financial system.
Additionally they discuss about:
- How being a pacesetter within the “green revolution” is a industrial different.
- How mass production would possibly well well genuinely expedite growth in direction of sustainability.
- Why supporting possibilities in their efforts to re-exercise and recycle is section of IKEA’s thought.
Additional resources:
- “The Drive to Decarbonize with Ramez Naam” (Exponential Seek podcast, 2020)
- “Ikea says it’s more uncomplicated being green while that you just would possibly well presumably be non-public” (Financial Events, 2020)
- “Ikea Will Carry Again Frail Furnishings” (Unusual York Events, 2020)
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