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CEF Annual Executive Leaders Retreat: June 11-14, 2023
The 2023 CEF 15th Annual Leadership Retreat will be held June 11-14 at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, CA. The Retreat is by-invitation for executives from CEF Member organizations. Members are invited to contact CEF Chair P.J. Simmons or Executive Director Amy O’Meara for more information.
CEF Member News
Amazon, Hyatt, Marriott & PepsiCo
Committed to hiring refugees in full-time positions in the U.S. as part of a Tent Partnership for Refugees campaign. MORE»
Amazon
Announced an additional 2.7 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy capacity across 71 new renewable energy projects. It also signed an agreement with renewable fuels technology Infinium to provide “ultra-low carbon electrofuels,” made from CO2 and renewable power, beginning in 2023 to replace diesel fuel for approx 5 million miles of travel per year. MORE » MORE 2 »
Comcast
Announced a plan to double its network energy efficiency by 2030, cutting the electricity per consumed terabyte of data in half. MORE»
GM
Announced an agreement in which Hertz will plan to order up to 175,000 Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac and BrightDrop electric vehicles (EVs) over the next five years. MORE »
McKinsey & Microsoft
Are collaborating to create an integrated solution that combines sustainability data intelligence from Microsoft Sustainability Manager with decarbonization planning and an execution engine from McKinsey Sustainability’s Catalyst Zero. This joint product will integrate data from emissions producing activities with initiatives to abate them, utilizing data from across more than 70 industry sectors. MORE »