Category: Environment & Energy
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Digital Innovation Key to Tackling Climate Change While Growing the Economy
By Stephen Harper, Senior Director, Environment and Energy Policy, Intel Public opinion polls consistently show that increasing numbers of Americans believe that human-caused climate change is real and an increasing threat to our daily lives. Temperatures reaching 116 degrees F in normally temperate Portland, Oregon, in June. Historically low water levels in Colorado River Basin reservoirs. Western wildfire records set...
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How Smart Technology Can Prepare Electrical Grids for Climate Emergencies
Over the past several years, a series of climate crises — wildfires, floods and record temperature highs and lows in Texas and the Pacific Northwest — have highlighted the vulnerabilities in one of the most critical pieces of our nation’s infrastructure: the electrical grid. As recently as twenty years ago, discussion of the electrical grid would have been relatively infrequent,...
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Transparency, integration, and collaboration – what the shifting ESG landscape means for companies
By Suzanne Fallender, Global Director, Corporate Responsibility, Intel Over the past year we have seen a significant shift in what investors, customers, employees, and governments expect from companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG), and how they are using corporate responsibility reporting to drive new conversations and actions. Today, Intel launches its 2020-21 Corporate Responsibility Report, marking one year since...
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Intel Supports New Report on Bipartisan Climate Policy Proposals
By Stephen Harper, Global Director, Environment and Energy Policy at Intel The Biden Administration has taken a number of executive actions to reassert Federal policy leadership on climate change, including rejoining the Paris climate agreement on inauguration day. The US has already made significant progress reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions. That has been due to several factors, including a...
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Intel applauds decision to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement
By Stephen Harper, Global Director, Environment and Energy Policy at Intel Intel applauds President Biden’s decision today to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, reinstating the U.S. as a key global leader on climate action. Together with Congress’ recent passage of legislation to dramatically phase-down the use and emissions of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, consistent with the Montreal Protocol, the U.S. rejoining...
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Moving Beyond Conflict: responsible minerals and the importance of collaborative partnerships
By Julian Lageard, Director Government, Markets and Trade Take a quick inventory of all the technology around you. If you own a smartphone, a laptop or desktop computer, a wearable smart device or even a microwave, there’s a good chance that those technologies were manufactured with some amount of tin, tungsten, tantalum or gold. In the world of minerals, these...
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Why the Future of Sustainability Requires Innovative Policy
By Stephen Harper, Global Director, Environment and Energy Policy at Intel Corporation The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the human impact on the world around us. Nature is reclaiming public spaces, and the decrease in global pollution was dramatic enough to be seen from space with the help of NASA satellites. For the first time, the United States is on...
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Intel 2030: Addressing Global Challenges with Urgency, Collaboration and Bold Action
By Jeff Rittener, Chief Government Affairs Officer, Intel Today, Intel announced the most ambitious set of corporate responsibility goals in the history of the company. Mapping out measurable impact in the areas of responsibility, sustainability, and inclusion, the goals include: Net positive water usage by conserving 60 billion gallons of water and funding external water restoration projects 100% renewable energy...
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Intel’s Investment in Water Stewardship
By Steve Harper, Global Director, Environment and Energy Policy, Intel On October 30, I had the honor to testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s Water and Power Subcommittee at the invitation of Subcommittee Chairwoman, Martha McSally (R-AZ). The focus of the hearing was on the importance of water security to economic development in the arid Western U.S....
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Intel Talks the Future of Artificial Intelligence at Hub.Berlin
By Mario Romao, Global Director of Health and Data Policy On April 10 in Berlin, Germany at hub.berlin, Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel Artificial Intelligence Vice-President & Chief Technology Officer and Abigail Wen, Counsel for Office of the AI CTO staged a conversation on “The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence: Innovations, Investments and Strategies”. The conversation addressed the current status of...
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