
Five Questions with The Climate Group’s Amy Davidsen on Corporate RE, Efficiency, and EV Commitments
Ron Pernick: Amy, 162 companies have joined your global RE100 campaign (with more than 30 companies joining in the past year alone) – committing to getting 100% of their electrons from renewable sources. What’s driving corporations to make such significant renewable energy (RE) commitments?
Amy Davidsen: When the campaign launched in September 2014 during Climate Week NYC, leading businesses including IKEA Group, Swiss Re, and Mars came together to make a public commitment to achieving 100% renewable power for their global operations.
At this time, most companies joined RE100 to…