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Climate Change - It's Time for Action

Todd_Brady
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November marks the 20th anniversary of my tenure with Intel. As I look back it’s amazing and humbling to realize how quickly time moves on both in our personal and professional lives. My first job at Intel was to build air emissions models for our newest technology – Intel’s state-of-the-art Pentium® products. A key driver behind the effort was to better understand our greenhouse gas emissions and what we could do to curb their impact. A few short years later, Intel, the semiconductor industry and the U.S. EPA developed a first of a kind voluntary initiative to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from semiconductor manufacturing. By 2010 we had successfully reduced our emissions below 1995 levels while growing our revenues and operations multiple fold. We were off and running.

Fast forward to today and our work continues. Today, in conjunction with the White House and other leading companies, we have announced a Climate Pledge to further reduce our carbon footprint through direct emission reductions, energy conservation, investments in renewable energy, green buildings and energy efficient products. In addition, we believe there is an opportunity to further reduce our collective carbon footprint by driving efficiencies in buildings, infrastructure, commerce and many other applications through the integration of IT solutions. The time for climate action is now. We welcome all to join us on the journey.
About the Author
Todd Brady is the Director of Global Public Affairs and Sustainability for Intel Corporation. In this role he leads state and local government affairs, media and community relations, corporate volunteerism and sustainability at the company's major manufacturing and office locations around the globe. In addition to overseeing regulatory and community engagement strategies in the US, China, Southeast Asia, Israel, Ireland and Latin America, he directs Intel’s global initiatives to make Intel “smart & green” by leading corporate-wide sustainability programs such as climate, energy and water conservation, green design and the integration of internet of things (IoT) solutions to create smart and green offices, buildings and facilities of the future. During his 20+ years at Intel, Todd has represented the company publicly in numerous forums and led industry-wide initiatives in many national and international committees. He has authored more than 20 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings on a variety of sustainability topics. In 2009, he was named by Scientific American as one of ten outstanding leaders involved in research, business or policy pursuits that have advanced science and technology. Todd holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University and a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.