Samsung vows to produce net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Samsung has made a commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions for the whole company by 2050 and will spend KRW 7 trillion (US$5 billion) over the next seven-and-a-half years to make that happen. While its plans are likely not as aggressive as Microsoft’s, which previously promised to be carbon negative by the end of the decade, it intends to implement changes soon so that its Device eXperience (DX) Division is producing net zero carbon by 2030.

 

Samsung’s DX division encompasses its consumer electronics businesses, including its mobile and display manufacturing operations, and was only responsible for 10 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. Meanwhile, the company’s chip and components business, which is often is biggest moneymaker, was responsible for 90 percent of the 17.4 million tons of greenhouses gases it emitted last year.

 

Samsung’s Committment

 

Clearly, there’s a lot of work to be done for its chipmaking business to be net zero. One of the things the company plans to do is develop technologies that can significantly reduce the gas byproducts of semiconductor manufacturing. Samsung also plans to install treatment facilities at its chip-making plants. In addition, the company will develop carbon capture and utilization technologies that can harness carbon emissions from its semiconductor facilities, store them and then turn them into a usable source.

 

The tech giant has joined RE100, the global initiative for businesses that want to use renewable energy to power their operation, as well. It will start by running the DX division and all operations outside its home country on renewable energy within the next five years before matching 100 percent of all its power needs around the world with renewable energy by 2050. Samsung has also detailed other environmental plans in its announcement, including its commitment to promote water reuse and to expand its electronic waste collection initiative to 180 countries from 50.

 

A spokesperson for one of its shareholders told Reuters that Samsung had delayed making a clear commitment towards reducing carbon emissions so much, it became a growing concern among long-term investors. Kim Soo-jin, Samsung’s head of ESG strategy group, explained: “We are a company that manufactures directly… so there are various, layered challenges. In the end, we are a technology company… So we will contribute positively to climate change through technology development. Since we are a large company and our products are widely used, we will make an impact through scale.”

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Earth is spinning faster and the days are being faster

According to scientists Something is making the Earth spin faster. As a result it makes the days shorter.

 

The Shorter Days

 

According to Engadget, “Over the last couple of years, time has felt more nebulous than ever. You’d be forgiven for thinking that days are passing by at an increasingly faster clip. According to scientists, that perspective is not wrong. On June 29th, midnight arrived 1.59 milliseconds sooner than expected. It was the shortest day in over half a century, at least since scientists started tracking the pace of the Earth’s rotation with atomic clocks in the 1960s.”

 

The scientific explanation

 

Leonid Zotov a scientist says in the abstract one of his articles, “This study is devoted to the determination of the admittance parameters describing the Earth rotational response to the components of the zonal tide potential. First, in order to better grasp the physical content of those admittance coefficients, we revisit the theoretical description of the length of day (LOD) changes at sub‐decadal time scale, where forcing is dominated by zonal tides and hydro‐atmospheric mass transports. This theoretical reminder specifies the rheological coefficients permitting to apply the hydro‐atmospheric corrections to isolate the tidal part of the LOD. Then, the admittances are determined from the LOD series corrected from hydro‐atmospheric contributions at the frequencies of the dominant zonal tidal terms between 7 and 365 days. In contrast of the former kindred studies, we both address the discrepancy of the results brought by various EOP series and the hydro‐atmospheric corrections on the LOD. Our study forwards the complementary corrections brought by the ocean, the land water and sea level changes. Below 32 days, removing the atmospheric‐oceanic excitation from LOD allows to much better constraint the admittance complex coefficients κ than applying the atmospheric correction only: the discrepancy with respect to modeled values is reduced up to 70%, and the frequency dependence of the imaginary part brought by the ocean dynamical response is confirmed. A systematic effect with respect to the values modeled by Ray and Erofeeva (2014),”