Context: page_content='A HISTORIC MOMENT FOR B CORP CLIMATE ACTIVISM\nOver the last year, the B Corp community has increasingly focused on climate action. Certified B Corporations like 3Degrees must consider the impact of business decisions on their employees, customers,\nsuppliers, community, and the environment. B Corps around the world are working on all of these areas of impact, but the clock is ticking on the environment. As we look ahead at the dire implications of global\nwarming, B Corp leaders have agreed: we must prioritize climate leadership in the way we do business. \nThe B Corp community recognizes it has a unique role to play in setting a new standard for how businesses operate. Consider that in December, more than 500 B Corps across 33 countries announced a\ncommitment to Net Zero by 2030, which is 20 years ahead of the 2050 targets set in the Paris Agreement. As noted by B Lab colleagues, it was a historic moment for climate activism and for the B Corp\nmovement. And the work is just beginning.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Urgency and Inclusion, Justice and Humanity in B Corps’ Fight Against Climate Change - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Urgency and Inclusion, Justice and Humanity in B Corps’ Fight Against Climate Change - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205020+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205020+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Urgency and Inclusion, Justice and Humanity in B Corps’ Fight Against Climate Change - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nJourney to zero: four key action areas to achieve net zero emissions\n– part 2\nJuly 27, 2021 3Degrees Staff\nIn the first blog in our Journey to Zero series, we discussed how a growing number of organizations are setting climate goals, such as net zero, carbon neutrality, or goals approved by the Science Based Targets\ninitiative (SBTi). We also reviewed the first two of four key action areas to help companies get started on their journey to net zero emissions: Business Strategy Integration and Operational Reductions. There was\nsome important groundwork laid in that article, so I encourage you to go back and give it a quick read if you missed it.\nIn this second and final blog of the series, we’ll be diving into the next two action areas, Value Chain Reductions and Remaining Emissions, and wrapping up with some thoughts on prioritizing your company’s\nnet zero efforts.\nVALUE CHAIN REDUCTIONS' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Journey to zero_ four key action areas to achieve net zero emissions - part 2 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Journey to zero_ four key action areas to achieve net zero emissions - part 2 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202929+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202929+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Journey to zero_ four key action areas to achieve net zero emissions - part 2 - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='net zero efforts.\nVALUE CHAIN REDUCTIONS\nMost companies will find that their value chain — or Scope 3 — emissions constitute the majority of their GHG emissions. Value chain emissions are derived from sources upstream or downstream of your\norganization’s operational boundary but are still within your scope of influence. More specifically, supply chain emissions within the value chain commonly represent the biggest share of a company’s emissions\nfootprint.\nFor example, a consumer packaged goods company might discover that a significant amount of its emissions are generated by fertilizer used during the manufacturing of its food products, since the fertilizer\nemits the powerful warming gas nitrous oxide.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Journey to zero_ four key action areas to achieve net zero emissions - part 2 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Journey to zero_ four key action areas to achieve net zero emissions - part 2 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202929+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202929+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Journey to zero_ four key action areas to achieve net zero emissions - part 2 - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nRenewable energy power purchase agreements\nFebruary 5, 2018 3Degrees Staff\nThis article was updated in February 2018.\nVIABLE PROCUREMENT OPTIONS FOR CORPORATE AND INDUSTRIAL BUYERS\nAs we discussed in the first article of this series, today’s renewable energy landscape has dramatically changed in recent years in large part because of the increasing pool of potential buyers –commercial and\nindustrial (C&I) organizations. This new buyer pool has wider, easier access to a broad array of large-scale direct renewable energy procurement options and is implementing on-site solar and off-site PPAs at a\nrecord-breaking pace. But deciding which option is right for your organization can be complex.  This series helps lay the foundation to answer that conundrum. In the first article, we covered the benefits and' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 5, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210222+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210222+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='challenges to C&I customers looking to use on-site renewable generation. This article will explore the potential of procuring renewable energy through power purchase agreements (PPAs), both physical and\nfinancial (defined below). Both types of PPAs can be powerful tools to help C&I customers develop robust clean energy portfolios and achieve sustainability goals. However, they do differ in a number of\nsignificant ways, and this article identifies these differences and other factors to consider when evaluating PPA opportunities.  \nWHAT IS A PPA?\nA power purchase agreement, at its core, is a contract between two parties where one party sells both electricity and renewable energy certificates (RECs) to another party. In corporate renewable energy PPAs,\nthe “seller” is often the developer or project owner, the “buyer” (often called the “offtaker”) is the C&I entity. C&I renewable energy PPAs can take two primary forms – physical or financial (the latter often' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 5, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210222+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210222+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='referred to as “virtual”). The best structure depends on the markets where the offtaker and projects are located, as well as the goals, priorities, and risk tolerance of the offtaker. Too often, these deals are framed\nas money-makers, but the real story is much more complicated. This related article dives deeper into the risks embedded in renewable energy PPAs and how to mitigate them.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 5, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210222+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210222+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='PROJECT TYPE\nWind Power\nPROJECT LOCATION\nGlasscock County,TX\nCOMPLETION DATE\nJanuary 2018\nGENERATION CAPACITY\n196.7 MW\nREC CERTIFICATION\nGreen-e® Energy eligible\nEGRID REGION\nBEARKAT 1: TEXAS WIND FARM' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Bearkat 1_ Texas Wind Energy Facility Profile.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Bearkat 1_ Texas Wind Energy Facility Profile.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210113+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210113+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Bearkat 1_ Texas Wind Energy Facility Profile.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\n(Part 1) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation\nJune 19, 2019 Erin Craig\nConvening the participants\nBy now, the concept of renewable energy aggregation is well-known due, in part, to recent high-profile projects being featured in the headlines. The topic has also become a favorite at industry conferences,\npopping up in numerous conversations such as the panel I recently participated in at GreenBiz titled, Renewable Project Aggregation: How Does it Work?\nThe benefits of participating in a joint procurement are many.  Aggregating companies’ renewable supply requirements enables companies with small needs to participate in high-impact, direct relationships with\nrenewable projects; it enables companies with large loads to cost-effectively pursue a wide variety of renewable supply strategies – for example, to maximize local impact whenever possible.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 1) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 1) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205446+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205446+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 1) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='Perhaps most importantly — and here is where aggregation differs from contracting independently for a small slice of a project — joint procurements can enhance business relationships, achieve broader\ncorporate goals, enable mutual learning, and speed the stakeholder engagement and acceptance processes inside all participating organizations. It can even be fun!\nAggregation: when multiple companies come together into a single renewable energy procurement to reduce transaction\ncosts and create economies of scale.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 1) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 1) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205446+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205446+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 1) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\n(Part 3) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation\nAugust 19, 2019 Erin Craig\nIncorporating Diversity into Renewable Energy Procurement\nIn our first two posts in our Pathways to a Successful Aggregation blog series, we’ve discussed various ways to convene a renewable energy aggregation buying group and how to build an effective aggregation\nteam. In this third and final post of the series, we’ll explore the role that diversity can play in a renewable energy procurement once you have your team of buyers in place.\nCompanies engaging in long-term purchasing arrangements for renewable energy supply are committing themselves to a long-term relationship with a new supplier. These renewable energy purchases represent\na significant financial commitment to that supplier — the project developer. With this in mind, contracting for renewable energy represents an ideal platform for buyers to assert a preference for suppliers who' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 3) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 3) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205350+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205350+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 3) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='are aligned with their own environmental, social, and governance goals. Indeed in some cases, the team executing the energy purchase is also responsible for Scope 3 or sustainable purchasing goals; these\nprocurements allow the sustainability team to “walk the walk”.\nWhen soliciting offers for a renewable energy project, it’s both common and encouraging to see buyers infuse the RFP with specific criteria concerning the project’s environmental profile. It’s far less common,\nand certainly more revealing as a differentiator, to apply environmental and social criteria to the supplier. We tackled this in a recent aggregated procurement, which included several buyers with goals and\nprograms around sustainable procurement and doing business with diverse suppliers.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 3) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 3) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205350+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205350+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/(Part 3) Pathways to a Successful Renewable Energy Aggregation - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nUnderstanding climate risk reporting – TCFD event takeaways\nApril 7, 2023 Elena Cernov\nUnderstanding how climate risk reporting is evolving has escalated in priority for many businesses and investors as they remain increasingly alert to the impact of climate change on their operations and\ndecision-making. \nAware of this need, 3Degrees participated in the TCFD and Climate Risk Reporting event in London in March where I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel about providing a harmonised sustainability\nmessage across reporting. Over the two-day conference, we also had the chance to hear unique perspectives into implementing the latest developments in climate risk disclosures and mitigation plans.\nI’ve outlined some highlights of the event that will hopefully shine a light on the understanding that climate reporting must commence now.\nFACTORS BEHIND CLIMATE-RELATED FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Understanding climate risk reporting - TCFD event takeaways - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Understanding climate risk reporting - TCFD event takeaways - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 7, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727200940+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727200940+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Understanding climate risk reporting - TCFD event takeaways - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='FACTORS BEHIND CLIMATE-RELATED FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE\nTraditionally, companies have been required to disclose how their operations impact the environment. The Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was created in 2017 to provide a more\neffective financial disclosure framework, as it considers the impact of climate change on businesses. \nAt the conference, it was discussed that sustainability reporting and specifically, TCFD, have been evolving due to various drivers:' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Understanding climate risk reporting - TCFD event takeaways - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Understanding climate risk reporting - TCFD event takeaways - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 7, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727200940+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727200940+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Understanding climate risk reporting - TCFD event takeaways - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nStrategies for Fairly Pricing Community Solar Programs\nMay 19, 2015 Adam Capage\nADAM CAPAGE OF 3DEGREES EXPLORES THE COMPLEX TOPIC OF PRICING POWER FROM COMMUNITY SOLAR PROGRAMS IN AN EQUITABLE MANNER.\nWhen a utility offers a community solar (or shared renewable) option to its customers, there are a range of program design questions to address. In previous articles, we’ve talked about project ownership and\nsiting considerations and options for mitigating risks. This article addresses the options for defining the final price to customers of solar energy from a community solar program.\nIn some states, there is a legislative or regulatory mandate that provides the answer. For example, in 2013 Minnesota passed a law mandating a solar standard for Xcel Energy, as well as a requirement to create a\nSolar Gardens program to help meet the standard; as a result, Xcel Energy has since defined specific bill credits for solar energy and RECs delivered to the utility.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202536+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202536+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='But for utilities that have voluntarily decided to launch a community solar program, defining the final cost of the solar can be a contentious process. This isn’t surprising when you consider how these utilities are\noperated and regulated. The cost of utilities’ portfolio of generation is spread across the entire rate base, so all costs and benefits are packaged and priced together. Aside from tiered pricing or time-of-use pricing\nmodels, every residential customer pays the same amount for the same bundle of energy, no matter when they use it.\nNow along comes community solar, which is premised on the idea that customers will be purchasing solar energy from a specific facility, possibly at a fixed price. This is an entirely different value proposition for\nthe customer. And it raises a number of complex questions for utilities and their regulators: Should customers be able to direct their dollars to a specific resource and then accrue specific benefits, such as a fixed' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202536+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202536+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='price? How should the public benefits and costs of solar power be addressed? Should these values be calculated and credited to the individual who enrolls, or should ratepayers that haven’t enrolled still share\nsome of the collective costs and benefits?' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202536+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202536+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Strategies for fairly pricing community solar programs _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nThe rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference\nDecember 6, 2022 Elizabeth Geller\nAt nearly every conference that we have attended this year, our teams have heard about the complexities surrounding quantifying and addressing supply chain emissions. As we know supply chain emissions\naccount for the lion’s share of a company’s total emissions (upwards of 90% in some cases), it was satisfying to attend an entire conference devoted to this topic. At the Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA\nconference, we dug into this very complicated challenge, shared learnings, and identified opportunities to better quantify and reduce emissions throughout the supply chain.\nThe first-ever Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA was held in Chicago and brought together over 250 supply chain and sustainability experts to explore cutting-edge methods for decarbonizing entire value' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201325+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201325+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='chains across all sectors. Alongside two of my fellow colleagues, I journeyed to the Windy City to join in on the discussion. In two days time, we emerged with new potential partnerships, industry connections,\nand strategies to influence our teams’ efforts. Read along for a deep dive on the major themes we picked up on at the event.\nCOMBATTING SCOPE 3\nAt the conference, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel titled “Decarbonizing the Supply Chain: Combatting the Challenge of Scope 3 Emissions” next to Chief Sustainability Officer of Conagra Brands,\nKatya Hantel. Our discussion centered around two main challenges of scope 3 emissions: how they are quantified and how they are reduced. \nI stressed that scope 3 emissions quantification and hot spot analysis is an iterative process – companies can start measuring emissions in a variety of ways, including the use of economic input-output tools,' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201325+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201325+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='industry-wide emission factors, and supplier engagement. The key is to get started. We also discussed some of the drivers of action around addressing scope 3 emissions. Regulatory and investor pressure are\nmotivators necessitating the collection of quantifiable, comprehensive data from all scopes of the supply chain. It’s becoming increasingly critical to leverage tools and frameworks to help organizations feel more' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201325+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201325+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The rundown on Reuters Transform Supply Chains USA Conference - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nThe Many Dimensions of Climate Action: Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018\nDecember 17, 2018 Scott Martin\nLast month, my colleague, Dan Kosiak, and I attended Companies vs. Climate Change (CvCC) in Miami, FL. Now in its second year, the conference strives to bring companies together to create business-driven\nsolutions to the climate crisis. 3Degrees had the distinct pleasure of serving as a premiere sponsor of the event.\nThis year, organizations of all sizes convened to discuss how to work collaboratively to address climate change. The audience was an energizing mix of people from the worlds of corporate and institutional\nsustainability, policy, consulting, and more, with an interesting blend of perspectives from global, local, governmental and the private sector. One of the most interesting aspects of the conference was the real-' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205721+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205721+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='world stories and deep-dive examples that attendees from each of these unique groups brought to the table.  Many of the sessions focused on how organizations are tackling climate change from different angles\n– each sector with its own unique challenges, focuses and potential solutions. Despite the wide range of approaches, the common thread among the organizations was their shared passion to figure out the most\nimpactful way they could address climate change.\nOn the second day of the conference, Dan and I had the opportunity to lead a session focused primarily on the concept of ‘VPPA Readiness’. The session served as a workshop for renewable energy buyers to\ndetermine if a VPPA made sense for their organization, and was centered around a few key areas:\nUNDERSTANDING THE RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET LANDSCAPE AND HOW A VPPA FITS IN:' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205721+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205721+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='UNDERSTANDING THE RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET LANDSCAPE AND HOW A VPPA FITS IN:\nCurrent trends in the renewable energy market show that the demand for voluntary VPPAs has more than doubled in recent years.  In fact, corporate power purchase agreements now account for about ¼ of\ntotal global renewable electricity sourced. In spite of this aggressive growth, it is still important to note that PPAs and VPPAs are not the only tools in the GHG reduction toolkit and are not advisable for all\n+' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205721+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205721+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/The Many Dimensions of Climate Action_ Takeaways from Companies vs. Climate Change 2018 - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nDelivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement\nJuly 27, 2022 Meagan Banuelos\nEnvironmental\nUsing non-emitting resources results in emission reductions\nAs corporate purchases of renewable energy have steadily increased, the criteria that buyers are looking for have also evolved. In the recent past, it was not a common practice to look at factors beyond\nenvironmental attributes, such as community co-benefits or other impactful procurement options, in order to differentiate one renewable energy certificate (REC) from another. Over the last year, there has been\na noticeable uptick in buyers who have an expanded focus on these factors, and are embedding social and/or climate justice initiatives into their corporate renewable energy goals and purchasing strategies.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201820+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201820+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='The industry has been shining more light on the importance of prioritizing a deeper impact when taking steps towards decarbonization. Despite popular belief, all RECs are not equal in value–like standard\nRECs, impact RECs still deliver a megawatt hour (MWh) of renewable energy, but they also contain social or environmental benefits. Thus, impact RECs are sourced from renewable energy projects that have\nadditional co-benefits associated with them, like allowing low-to-moderate income (LMI) families to reap the benefits of renewable energy or funding renewable energy development in climate-vulnerable areas. \nCO-BENEFITS: THE NEW NORMAL\nIn addition to reducing the effects of their energy use and meeting sustainability goals, organizations are also seeking\nhigher impact products for a variety of reasons. How an organization arrives at the decision to incorporate co-benefits into' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201820+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201820+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='their REC purchase varies greatly based on what impact characteristics are most important internally. Some want to\nsupport projects that are local to their state or region, and others want to take steps toward attaining certain Sustainable\nDevelopment Goals (SDGs) or meet specific climate target standards. For many corporations, the motivation comes from' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201820+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201820+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Delivering benefits through impactful renewable energy procurement - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nBest Practices for Voluntary RNG Programs\nSeptember 19, 2019 Amanda Mortlock\nWhat Gas Utilities Can Learn From Electric Utility Green Power Programs\nAs pressure to decarbonize our energy supply mounts, many gas utilities are considering how to integrate and scale renewable natural gas, and are considering a voluntary renewable natural gas (RNG) program\nfor their residential and commercial customers.\nWhile voluntary RNG programs are a relatively new development for gas utilities, these programs have many similarities to the voluntary green power programs that have been offered by electric utilities for\ndecades. As such, there is much that gas utilities can learn from their electric utility counterparts in terms of best practices and risk mitigation as they consider whether and how to design and launch successful\nRNG programs.\nTOP TEN KEY FACTORS IN CREATING A SUCCESSFUL VOLUNTARY PROGRAM' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Best Practices for Voluntary RNG Programs - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Best Practices for Voluntary RNG Programs - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205322+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205322+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Best Practices for Voluntary RNG Programs - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='RNG programs.\nTOP TEN KEY FACTORS IN CREATING A SUCCESSFUL VOLUNTARY PROGRAM\nThanks to the annual NREL Top Ten List, it’s easy to get a sense for which electric utility programs have been the most successful. But looking at those lists doesn’t tell you why those programs have achieved\nsuch success.\nHere are ten specific lessons that will help gas utilities build a successful voluntary program:' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Best Practices for Voluntary RNG Programs - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Best Practices for Voluntary RNG Programs - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205322+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205322+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Best Practices for Voluntary RNG Programs - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nEurope bets on homegrown carbon removals\nFebruary 13, 2023 Mateja Penava\nThe EU has set its sights on carbon removal projects. Developing local carbon sequestration capacity and market trust through harmonisation and transparency is the central aim of the Proposal for Establishing\na Union Certification Framework for Carbon Removals recently adopted by the European Commission (EC). \nThis shouldn’t come as a surprise considering EC’s rollout of the European Green Deal in 2019, which outlines a vision to reach carbon neutrality as a continent by 2050. This feat will require not only\ndramatically reducing most of its greenhouse gas emissions year after year but significantly scaling up atmospheric carbon removal, required to balance out hundreds of millions of tons of residual, hard-to-abate\nCO2 emissions.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Europe bets on homegrown carbon removals - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Europe bets on homegrown carbon removals - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 6, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201123+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201123+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Europe bets on homegrown carbon removals - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='CO2 emissions.\nTo date, relatively few carbon projects have been developed on the continent. As of December 2022, less than 1% of all carbon projects listed by four major voluntary offset project registries are located in the EU\n(see image 1). The Union’s latest move hopes to change that by spurring investment and trust in local carbon removal.\nIt is expected that more carbon removal credits from local projects will become available and procurement more streamlined once a robust network of third-party verifiers and standardised quality criteria is\nestablished.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Europe bets on homegrown carbon removals - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Europe bets on homegrown carbon removals - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 6, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201123+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201123+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Europe bets on homegrown carbon removals - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nHow the Renewable Energy Market is Evolving\nNovember 2, 2015 3Degrees Staff\nCorporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) are being talked about everywhere — from water coolers to boardrooms to industry conferences. Today, corporate and institutional (C&I) end users have\nunparalleled access to bilateral agreements directly with �utility-scale renewable energy facilities — greening their energy portfolio and creating financial benefits. How did we get here?\nWhile a number of interrelated factors have driven this change, we have identified two clear eras in the development of �renewable energy.\nTHE TWO ERAS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET DEVELOPMENT\nERA 1: The Early Days of Deregulation, RECs, and RPSs (1990s–2000s)\nThe first era, starting in the 1990s, was characterized by deregulation, the creation of renewable energy certificates (RECs) and the development of the renewable portfolio standard (RPS). During this time' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Evolving green energy market makes way for PPAs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Evolving green energy market makes way for PPAs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 4, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202508+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202508+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Evolving green energy market makes way for PPAs _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='period, renewable energy was purchased through compliance and voluntary programs, and renewable energy cost a premium to conventional power.\nIn the mid- to late 1990s, options were few for commercial and institutional �customers that wanted renewable energy. An end user could install an on-site �solar PV system, or if in a deregulated market,\ncould select a retail provider �that combined RECs with normal brown power. Over time, the number of �deregulated markets and options increased substantially.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Evolving green energy market makes way for PPAs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Evolving green energy market makes way for PPAs _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 4, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202508+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202508+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Evolving green energy market makes way for PPAs _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nTransportation: a key pillar for just transition. Takeaways from Forth ’22\nJuly 12, 2022 David Funk\nAt the end of June, professionals, community leaders, and other stakeholders gathered in Portland, Oregon for the annual Forth Roadmap conference to discuss the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead as\nwe course our path toward deep transportation decarbonization. Session topics ranged from the practical to the political, with some conversations centering on the impacts of redlining and how highway\nconstruction continues to connect predominantly rich white suburbs to economic centers—driving an even wider wealth gap, and leaving communities of color isolated, divided, and burdened by pollution. Many\nfear this issue will remain unaddressed and exacerbated with the Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA. This recent decision which leaves environmental regulation in the hands of a divided congress' metadata={'source': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Transportation_ a key pillar for just transition. Takeaways from Forth '22 - 3Degrees.pdf", 'file_path': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Transportation_ a key pillar for just transition. Takeaways from Forth '22 - 3Degrees.pdf", 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201856+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201856+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Transportation_ a key pillar for just transition. Takeaways from Forth '22 - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='likely means that these same overlooked and underrepresented communities will continue to bear the brunt of vehicular pollution and the current and future impacts of the climate crisis. Progress is not\nguaranteed.\nAs we face these difficult truths, optimism can be scarce but in regards to transportation, we face a historic opportunity to right some of our past wrongs. Electrified transportation has the potential to make our\ncommunities cleaner and quieter while also lowering the cost of transportation. We are starting to see leadership from the Federal government in setting standards, allocating infrastructure funds, and improving\ncoordination between OEMs, utility companies, the Dept. of Energy and the Dept. of Transportation. We applaud the governmental leadership to align these efforts as it results in a more mature industry and\nconsistent experience.' metadata={'source': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Transportation_ a key pillar for just transition. Takeaways from Forth '22 - 3Degrees.pdf", 'file_path': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Transportation_ a key pillar for just transition. Takeaways from Forth '22 - 3Degrees.pdf", 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727201856+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727201856+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Transportation_ a key pillar for just transition. Takeaways from Forth '22 - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='CASE STUDY\nFirst-ever Peace REC\n(P-REC) transaction drives renewable energy development in Africa\n DOWNLOAD PDF\n\xa0\nOVERVIEW\nMicrosoft purchased P-RECs issued by Energy Peace Partners from Congolese solar developer Nuru’s newly commissioned 1.3MW commercial solar-plus-storage project in Goma, DRC.\n+\nThe P-REC purchase helped Nuru fund the recently completed construction of 35 mini-grid-connected streetlights in the Ndosho neighborhood of Goma.\n+\nThe streetlights: Improve quality of life with better nighttime visibility and road safety, and enhance neighborhood security; Support the local economy by allowing businesses to stay open at night;\nImprove air quality by reducing reliance on diesel generators, which are both expensive and highly polluting.\n+\n+ This transaction unlocks a new renewable energy attribute option that other organizations can now leverage to drive renewable projects in underserved communities around the globe.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/First-ever Peace REC (P-REC) transaction drives renewable energy development in Africa - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/First-ever Peace REC (P-REC) transaction drives renewable energy development in Africa - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 4, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727204354+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727204354+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/First-ever Peace REC (P-REC) transaction drives renewable energy development in Africa - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nUniting forces to foster environmental change\nJune 30, 2017 Mark Mondik\nTHE POWER OF MARKETS\nI believe in the power of markets. Markets create incentives, and incentives change the way we behave. As my colleague Scott Eidson recently wrote, that’s why we we are excited to combine the market power of\n3Degrees and Origin Climate into a single force for environmental change that creates economic prosperity and drives meaningful emissions reductions to tackle global climate change.\nHaving spent my early career in finance and in business school in New York City, I like to say I was “raised by capitalists.” But unlike many of those capitalists, my primary goal would become harnessing the\npower of markets for positive change rather than for self-gain.\nCritics of market mechanisms like to focus on the element of self-gain. Money, an intrinsic part of most markets, is the “root of all evil,” they say. But it is the love of money that is the root of evil, not money itself.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Uniting Forces to Foster Environmental Change _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Uniting Forces to Foster Environmental Change _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210414+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210414+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Uniting Forces to Foster Environmental Change _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='Money is just a mechanism used to store value, just like markets are simply mechanisms that help solve problems efficiently by allocating resources to where they are most effective.\nMAKING MARKETS WORK FOR THE ENVIRONMENT\nAnd this is the aim of our environmental markets work at 3Degrees. Our customers understand that pollution has a real cost and that markets offer a real solution. In 2016 alone, our combined customer base\nchanneled nearly $40 million into these markets, helping to fund the operating costs of over 400 renewable energy and other emission reduction projects—and hundreds of jobs—across the United States. And\nthis doesn’t even count the $1+ billion in financial commitments our consulting clients have made directly to projects over the last couple years.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Uniting Forces to Foster Environmental Change _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Uniting Forces to Foster Environmental Change _ 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210414+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210414+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Uniting Forces to Foster Environmental Change _ 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nVoluntary renewable energy can help utilities reach 100% clean targets faster\nNovember 3, 2020 Amanda Mortlock\nThere’s a groundswell of utilities across the U.S. pursuing decarbonization targets. Seventeen large investor-owned utilities have now pledged to reach 100% clean electricity or net-zero emissions, on timelines of\n30, 20, and even just 15 years from now. While this clean energy transformation is essential in the fight against climate change, it also represents an unprecedented challenge to the energy industry. Utilities are\nfundamentally shifting their business models, changing the nature of energy generation, storage, and delivery, and they’re on a deadline. Simply put, we’re embarking on what Deloitte recently called “an energy\ntransition like no other.”\nTo be successful in the shift to a clean energy future, utility leaders need to be resourceful, taking an all-hands-on-deck' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Voluntary renewable energy can help utilities reach 100% clean targets faster - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Voluntary renewable energy can help utilities reach 100% clean targets faster - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727204339+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727204339+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Voluntary renewable energy can help utilities reach 100% clean targets faster - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='approach and using every tool in their toolbox to its fullest extent in order to reach these ambitious targets.\nOne such tool is the voluntary renewable energy market, which has growing potential to help utilities decarbonize faster, and to do it in partnership with their customers.\nSUSTAINED GROWTH IN THE VOLUNTARY RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET\nThe voluntary market for renewable energy has grown steadily since it first emerged in the early 2000s. According to NREL’s annual reports, the overall voluntary renewable energy market has grown around 20\npercent annually the last few years, and shows no signs of slowing. The portion of that market served by vertically integrated utilities has grown steadily too, as utilities have seen the value of offering renewable\nenergy options to meet residential and commercial customer demand. And new utility program types continue to emerge and add capacity. Notably, there’s been significant growth recently spurring from the' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Voluntary renewable energy can help utilities reach 100% clean targets faster - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Voluntary renewable energy can help utilities reach 100% clean targets faster - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727204339+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727204339+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Voluntary renewable energy can help utilities reach 100% clean targets faster - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nHighlights from a week in London: Net zero, scope 3, and more\nJune 29, 2022 Maureen Bray\nEarlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending Reuters’ Responsible Business Europe 2022 in London and representing 3Degrees on a net zero panel discussion and workshop. As it was only my fourth week\nin my new role overseeing our climate consulting practice in Europe, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to engage with our team members from across North America and Europe, as well as dive into\nimportant climate target discussions with so many conference attendees and 3Degrees clients. There is certainly no shortage of questions on this topic!\nIt was an engaging, whirlwind of a week and, as I walked away from my first in-person event in well over two years, I kept thinking about the many recurring themes that presented themselves both in my' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Highlights from a week in London_ Net zero, scope 3, and more - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Highlights from a week in London_ Net zero, scope 3, and more - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202011+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202011+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Highlights from a week in London_ Net zero, scope 3, and more - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='conversations with sustainability leaders in organisations across a wide array of sectors, and in the conference sessions that I attended and helped facilitate. Here are a few highlights.\nTHE TIME IS NOW\n“Don’t let perfection get in the way of progress.”\nThis was a refrain I heard over and over again at the event – and is consistent with the counsel we provide our clients on a daily basis. Companies simply cannot afford to sit back and wait any longer to take\nrobust, meaningful climate action, even in the face of imperfect (and sometimes confusing) policies, slowly developing technologies, and gaps in knowledge. Organisations across sectors have woken up and feel\nthe urgency: climate action is no longer a choice, it’s a necessity. Companies are experiencing pressure coming from a variety of directions – from customers, investors, employees and other internal stakeholders,' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Highlights from a week in London_ Net zero, scope 3, and more - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Highlights from a week in London_ Net zero, scope 3, and more - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202011+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202011+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Highlights from a week in London_ Net zero, scope 3, and more - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nA Guide to Addressing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions\nOctober 28, 2021 Katherine Canoy\nAs organizations around the world take action to address climate change, many are committing to ambitious climate goals, including net zero carbon emissions, carbon neutrality and science-based targets.\nHowever, knowing the proper steps to take to achieve climate goals can sometimes be a challenge, particularly as it relates to scope 3 value chain emissions. Value chain emissions lie outside an organization’s\ndirect operations, and can therefore be more difficult to address — but they often represent the majority of a company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There are three key steps to addressing value chain\nemissions — measurement, materiality and engagement — that will help demystify the process of reducing scope 3 emissions. \nMEASUREMENT' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/A Guide to Addressing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/A Guide to Addressing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202806+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202806+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/A Guide to Addressing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='MEASUREMENT\nThough one of the hardest things to do, measurement is a necessary first step for a company to take in the early stages of crafting a value chain emissions reduction plan. There are a few different approaches to\nconsider:\nECONOMIC INPUT-OUTPUT MODEL\nAn economic input-output model uses readily available data (e.g. company purchases, economic data) and multiplies it by industry-standard emission factors. This is a simple, quick method to determine the\norder of magnitude for your value chain emissions. However, using a dollar per GHG ($/GHG) factor can limit your ability to quantify your successes if you continue to spend the same amount of money on\nproducts.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/A Guide to Addressing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/A Guide to Addressing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202806+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202806+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/A Guide to Addressing Scope 3 Value Chain Emissions - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nWhat every company needs to know about climate risk assessment\nJune 12, 2023 Katherine Markova\nIt is valuable for every company to have familiarity with the framework set out by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and with climate-related risks and opportunities more\ngenerally. In this article, we’ll explain why. \nTHE CASCADING EFFECT OF CLIMATE REPORTING\nOver the past few years, we have been witnessing voluntary sustainability reporting frameworks becoming increasingly mandatory in markets where regulation did not previously exist. Governments and\nregulators all over the world have been responding to investor-led demands for climate risks to be disclosed and quantified, with TCFD rapidly becoming the disclosure framework of choice in the EU, US, and\nUK (to name just a few jurisdictions), along with global standard-setters such as the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/What every company needs to know about climate risk assessment - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/What every company needs to know about climate risk assessment - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 4, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727200746+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727200746+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/What every company needs to know about climate risk assessment - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='For a company monitoring these developments, the intuition is to start by asking a simple question – are we in the scope of these rules? And while that is a logical question to ask, we should begin with\ninvestigating the drivers. Regulators such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the EU Commission  are mainly responding to the wider demands of investors. \nAt 3Degrees, we’ve been calling this view of starting at the top, “the cascading effect of reporting,” which is currently underway and at this point, irreversible.\n1' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/What every company needs to know about climate risk assessment - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/What every company needs to know about climate risk assessment - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 4, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727200746+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727200746+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/What every company needs to know about climate risk assessment - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nMeaningful climate action must address anti-racism and equity\nJune 30, 2020 Steve McDougal\n2020 has been a year of disruption. The ongoing, systemic oppression of Black Americans, including police violence, highlights how much work needs to be done to bring true equity to our society. This has been\nan awakening for me. We all must do more, and we all have to do better. And, as 3Degrees’ CEO, I have an obligation to do everything I can. Here are some of my reflections:\nAs a U.S.-headquartered company in the clean energy industry – which is historically dominated by white men – 3Degrees is part of a messy, complicated, and unjust history of systemic racism. White\nsupremacy has been woven into the fabric of the United States and, whether we’ve even realized its existence or not, white people like me have benefited from it. We all have an urgent responsibility to recognize' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Meaningful climate action must address anti-racism and equity - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Meaningful climate action must address anti-racism and equity - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727204520+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727204520+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Meaningful climate action must address anti-racism and equity - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='the characteristics of white supremacy culture and help dismantle it. That will require a constant, unyielding devotion to racial justice, inside and outside of our business. We have a part to play in changing the\nfuture, and as CEO I am committed to making changes — both in our organization and in our industry.\nDiversity is one of 3Degrees’ company values. This June, the 3Degrees team has been discussing what it means to be an anti-racist organization, particularly in the context of our mission to make it possible for\nbusinesses and their customers to take urgent action on climate change. Last Friday, we paused business for a day to provide employees with a day of reflection and action in honor of Juneteenth. The fight\nagainst climate change is intertwined with dismantling the racist systems in America and indeed throughout the world. As we shared in a public statement earlier this month:' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Meaningful climate action must address anti-racism and equity - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Meaningful climate action must address anti-racism and equity - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727204520+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727204520+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Meaningful climate action must address anti-racism and equity - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='CASE STUDY\nLyft combats climate change with every ride\n DOWNLOAD PDF\nFunding emission reduction projects and catalyzing change in transportation\nLyft, the global ride-hailing service, cares deeply about their impact on the environment and the communities they serve. In 2017, Lyft announced\ntheir 2025 climate impact goals, which include moving to autonomous electric vehicles powered by renewable energy and reducing overall CO2\nemissions in the transportation sector.  As part of delivering on their Green Cities Initiative in support of these goals, Lyft partnered with 3Degrees\nto look for both near-term and longer-term opportunities to reduce their environmental impact.\nKEY CHALLENGES\nEmissions from the transportation sector are a stubborn problem. Petroleum-based fuels like gasoline are deeply embedded in our vehicle and fuel distribution' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Lyft combats climate change with every ride - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Lyft combats climate change with every ride - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210051+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210051+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Lyft combats climate change with every ride - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='infrastructure, resulting in large quantities of carbon dioxide and other tailpipe emissions. Lyft’s long-term vision for addressing this is an all-electric vehicle fleet\npowered by 100% renewable electricity – an ambitious goal that will take time to accomplish. In the short-term, Lyft sought to take immediate steps to address its\nenvironmental impact in a relevant and meaningful way.\nLyft set an aggressive goal – to offset emissions from all Lyft rides worldwide.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Lyft combats climate change with every ride - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Lyft combats climate change with every ride - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 3, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727210051+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727210051+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Lyft combats climate change with every ride - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='DOWNLOAD ARTICLE PROJECT PROFILE\nHigh-impact aggregated solar projects tackle energy affordability issues in low-income\ncommunities\n DOWNLOAD PDF' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/High-impact aggregated solar projects tackle energy affordability issues in low-income communities - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/High-impact aggregated solar projects tackle energy affordability issues in low-income communities - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 6, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727203350+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727203350+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/High-impact aggregated solar projects tackle energy affordability issues in low-income communities - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='CASE STUDY\nPowdr’s Clean Energy Initiative Meets Good Clean Fun\nWith a mission to share, inspire and celebrate lifestyle and mountain sports, Powdr owns and operates eight mountain resorts located across the country. Understanding that the future of these outdoor spaces\ndepends on a serious effort to stop climate change, Powdr supports a variety of carbon cutting and energy saving initiatives at their resorts.\nResorts have sacrificed revenue from selling plastic water bottles on location, commissioned a series of research on climate change and how it will impact the recreation community and created the initiative,\nProtect Your Playground, to fund ideas that further advance Powdr’s sustainability goals.\nIn 2015, Powdr partnered with 3Degrees to purchase enough wind RECs to match 100% of the electricity used at their eight resorts. With a mission to connect people to cleaner energy on a massive scale,\n3Degrees enlisted their in-house marketing and creative team to design a campaign to:' metadata={'source': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Powdr's Clean Energy Initiative Meets Good Clean Fun - 3Degrees.pdf", 'file_path': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Powdr's Clean Energy Initiative Meets Good Clean Fun - 3Degrees.pdf", 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 5, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202430+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202430+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Powdr's Clean Energy Initiative Meets Good Clean Fun - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='3Degrees enlisted their in-house marketing and creative team to design a campaign to:\n \nBuild the Powdr Green brand\n+\nInspire resort-based marketing teams to talk more about carbon neutrality\n+\nIncrease employee confidence on the subject\n+\n+ Give Powdr more value out of their REC and carbon offset purchase' metadata={'source': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Powdr's Clean Energy Initiative Meets Good Clean Fun - 3Degrees.pdf", 'file_path': "/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Powdr's Clean Energy Initiative Meets Good Clean Fun - 3Degrees.pdf", 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 5, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727202430+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727202430+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Powdr's Clean Energy Initiative Meets Good Clean Fun - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='CASE STUDY\nHow One Global Beverage Company Took Pure Water to the Next Level\n DOWNLOAD PDF\nIn 2007, leading beverage brand VOSS set out on a mission to take a hard look at the holistic environmental impact of its\nexceptionally pure bottled water products.  Although VOSS offered some of the cleanest water products in the world, the company\nrealized the process of sourcing, bottling and bringing its products to market in over 50 countries had a significant carbon footprint\nas the price for its success.  Inconsistent with their environmental values and detrimental to the very resources from which VOSS water flows, VOSS decided it was\ntime to make a change.\nVOSS approached 3Degrees to help it comprehensively address its carbon emissions, which were only going to grow significantly as the company achieved greater\nsuccess.\nCHALLENGES' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/How 3Degrees Helped VOSS Address Its Carbon Footprint_ Case Study.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/How 3Degrees Helped VOSS Address Its Carbon Footprint_ Case Study.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205905+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205905+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/How 3Degrees Helped VOSS Address Its Carbon Footprint_ Case Study.pdf


Context: page_content='success.\nCHALLENGES\nVOSS was looking for a thorough, meaningful solution to address its cradle-to-grave product life cycle carbon footprint from the moment it sources its water to the\nmoment the bottle is recycled. VOSS entrusted 3Degrees to dive deep and come up with a methodology and approach that would be impactful, holistic and scale\nwith the company’s global ambitions.' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/How 3Degrees Helped VOSS Address Its Carbon Footprint_ Case Study.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/How 3Degrees Helped VOSS Address Its Carbon Footprint_ Case Study.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205905+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205905+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/How 3Degrees Helped VOSS Address Its Carbon Footprint_ Case Study.pdf


Context: page_content='ARTICLE\nTranslating the NREL Voluntary Green Power Market Report\nNovember 19, 2018 Maya Kelty\nWith the release of NREL’s 2017 U.S. Voluntary Green Power Market report, and most of 2018 in the rear view mirror, we can now safely look back on a few of the prevailing trends in\nthe market with confidence and clarity as we gear up for 2019. The year of 2017 was a bumper year for the U.S. voluntary green power market: MWh sales grew almost 28% from 2016\nlevels – the largest YoY growth since before 2010  – and total sales eclipsed the 100 million MWh mark for the first time on record. Here are a few key takeaways to help explain this\nmarked growth and keep an eye on going forward.\nPRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION:\nThe proliferation of differentiated products within the voluntary green power market has helped fuel sales growth by creating a more robust market capable of supplying a wider range of' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Translating the NREL Voluntary Green Power Market Report - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Translating the NREL Voluntary Green Power Market Report - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205800+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205800+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Translating the NREL Voluntary Green Power Market Report - 3Degrees.pdf


Context: page_content='customer segments. Indeed, 2017 saw customers buying a more diversified mix of green power (all backed by RECs) than ever before.  PPAs and Utility Contracts (green tariffs and\nbilateral contracts) accounted for their highest combined share of sales on record (>20%), while Unbundled RECs, Competitive Suppliers and Utility Green Pricing programs continued\nto make up the majority of the market. Declining costs of renewables and enabling market conditions together helped catalyze this growth in product differentiation.\nCORPORATE TARGET SETTING:\nThe trend in corporate renewable energy and emissions reduction target setting is picking up pace and driving demand in the voluntary green power market. One out of five North American headquartered\ncompanies reporting to CDP now has a renewable energy target in place and that number is even higher for companies setting broader emissions reduction targets.  Moreover, the number of renewable energy' metadata={'source': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Translating the NREL Voluntary Green Power Market Report - 3Degrees.pdf', 'file_path': '/Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Translating the NREL Voluntary Green Power Market Report - 3Degrees.pdf', 'page': 0, 'total_pages': 2, 'format': 'PDF 1.4', 'title': '', 'author': '', 'subject': '', 'keywords': '', 'creator': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36', 'producer': 'Skia/PDF m115', 'creationDate': "D:20230727205800+00'00'", 'modDate': "D:20230727205800+00'00'", 'trapped': ''} Source: /Users/kladar/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-verse.inc/Data/data-lake/landing/document/context-corpus-20230728/3Degrees/Translating the NREL Voluntary Green Power Market Report - 3Degrees.pdf


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