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  Modern chief sustainability officers are tasked with decarbonizing scopes 1 and 2, and operational Scope 3 supply chains. While they’re making progress, sustainability teams remain siloed from corporate financial architecture. This creates a glaring “exposure gap”: while a company publicly celebrates its 100 percent renewable operations or ambitious net-zero targets, its employee 401(k) plan…

Cone Health plans to expand its care to consumers in Forsyth County. It filed a certificate of need (CON) with the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation. The 198,593 square-foot facility will be in southeast Forsyth County at 0 Cole Rd. That is west of I-74/Hwy 311 where it is connecting into the Northern…

Caravel Autism Health is hosting a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the grand opening of a new, state-of-the-art autism therapy clinic. The clinic, located at 501 8th Street Southwest in Altoona, is staffed by childhood autism experts who specialize in Applied Behavior Analysis therapy. Using positive reinforcement, ABA therapy helps children with autism build skills – from…

  Upgrade planning has to start with a systemwide, portfolio approach rather than a site-by-site mindset. Planning an LED lighting upgrade across a portfolio of healthcare facilities is not the same as planning one for a single facility. The technology is the same, but what changes is the complexity of scaling from one facility to…

Work on the $8-billion Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, which is planned to link Germany and Denmark as the world’s longest immersed tunnel, is progressing as crews achieved a milestone last month with the successful immersion of its first precast concrete element. But Danish state-owned project owner Femern A/S says the plan is now running at least two…

  The Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi’s) net-zero standard overhaul redefines how companies should approach electricity decarbonization, but it’s more flexible than the strict carbon accounting rules proposed by the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. The new approach to Scope 2 — which covers purchased electricity — marks a major departure from the current standard, under which…