US and Chinese companies team up to drive zero carbon, zero waste strategies

Madeleine Cuff
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New Race to Zero campaign recruits business superstars such as Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alibaba founder Jack Ma to push climate action amongst US and Chinese companies

Alibaba, IBM, Trina Solar, and KraftHeinz are among the US and Chinese business giants to back a new campaign today to encourage companies in both countries to go further and faster in cutting their environmental...

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