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Like its closest rivals in artificial intelligence and cloud computing, Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in its latest ESG reporting update. And like Microsoft and Google, the company is committed to its existing goal, which commits it to becoming net zero by 2040 through the Climate Pledge framework it co-created in 2019. Amazon’s sustainability chief,…

Over two fifths (41 percent) of businesses have emphasised the need for people to work in a physical workspace such as an office over the past year, according to a new poll from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). While most of the firms (67 percent) who require onsite working say it hasn’t impacted recruitment…

A mistaken report of gunfire at Walter Reed led to a swift lockdown and response. A mistaken report of a rifle and gunshots at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, recently led to a temporary lockdown and active shooter response, WUSA9 reports. The incident began when a witness reported seeing a man…

Recent Wharton research on how commodity trading firms respond to environmental regulations brings broad insights into the effects of enforcement and transparency. Wharton accounting professor Sandra Schafhäutle studied sourcing patterns of commodity trading firms in Brazil’s soybean industry from 2006 to 2018, and her findings could sharpen environmental regulation. Schafhäutle detailed these findings in a…

Warehouse and distribution center operators are using artificial intelligence and automation technologies to improve the effectiveness of their facilities in a number of ways, from managing vendors coming in and out of their buildings to maintaining assets. Skeens Warehouse Services, a third-party facility support firm based in Indiana, said it has partnered with CMMS provider…

  Facility managers at higher education campuses can expect better quality and lower maintenance needs if new dormitories and other student housing use modular construction, a general contractor experienced in that method says. Modular construction is used mostly for affordable housing as a way to bring new units to market at a lower cost, but…