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Sony Shifts US 100% Renewable Energy Goal Forward By A Decade

Clean Technica: Only a month after it announced that it was joining the RE100 initiative and committing to sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2040, entertainment and electronics giant Sony Corporation has announced this week it is bringing forward its US goal by a decade.

In the lead-up to the Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco in September, global corporate leadership initiative RE100 — which is led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) — announced what it described as “the global entertainment industry’s biggest move on renewable electricity yet,” with one of the world’s largest electronics and entertainment companies, Sony Corporation, joining the RE100 initiative alongside other big names such as management consulting leader McKinsey & Company, global coworking and community company WeWork, and one of the oldest banks in Europe, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

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