Bringing Together Sport and Science for a Sustainable Future
Through strategic collaborations, we provide expertise, advance best in class technologies and deliver tangible, verifiable sustainability gains to society through sports.
Dow’s carbon partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is an example of one such transformative collaboration, where the platform of sport and the power of science unite to catalyze the adoption of state-of-the-art technologies for a positive climate legacy.
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The Olympic Games represent the apex of athletic prowess—challenging athletes to achieve the seemingly impossible. With a rich history in the world of sports and as a WorldWide Olympic Partner and the Official Chemistry Company of the Olympic Movement, Dow has also been inspired to challenge the status quo.
Through Dow’s carbon partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the excitement, energy and challenge of sport is combined with groundbreaking science to generate real third-party verified climate benefits. To really push beyond business as usual, Dow is helping enable greenhouse gases (GHGs) reductions beyond the Olympic Games and host cities to some of the world’s highest output industries.
Alongside customers and key partners, Dow is bringing innovation and carbon expertise to tailored mitigation projects in building energy efficiency, packaging and recycling, and industrial applications.
To date, the cumulative GHG reductions from Dow’s three carbon programs, which include Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and the IOC programs, have reached more than 5 million tonnes of CO2e.
Buildings and construction account for 39% of related carbon dioxide emissions, according to the World Green Building Council. Moving the built environment sector to a lower-carbon path requires creative value chain teamwork.
By collaborating with leading façade and construction companies, engineers and property developers to introduce new & existing energy-saving solutions, we’re aiming to break barriers to a stronger, more sustainable built environment.
As of 2019, the global packaging industry generated an estimated $900 billion annually, with a steadily high growth rate projected through 2022. Factors at play range from the boon of e-commerce, to increasing global populations and a growing emphasis on branding and design. As a result, the risk of environmental waste is high. The way we produce, package, store, consume and dispose of materials matters now more than ever.
That’s why Dow is prioritizing working with convertors, brand owners, and retailers along the value chain to change the packaging narrative through:
Industry and energy are critical drivers of global economic growth. As such, the industry is in a unique position to help build an environmentally and economically sustainable future.
By making a few practical operational changes, companies can realize significant environmental and economical gains. In fact, a single energy efficient improvement in industrial operations can have the same impact as the actions of thousands—or even millions—of individuals. That’s game-changing.
Our collaborations within this market are designed to:
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AEON, the first collaborator in Japan, reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and food loss by utilizing Dow technologies in food packaging solutions and practices.
Dow and the USGBC’s Carbon Challenge inspired property owners to reduce 38,000 metric tonnes CO2e across 63 building projects in Northern.
Initiatives with the organizing committees of Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 and the IOC enabled carbon reductions in areas such as infrastructure, reforestation, manufacturing and packaging projects.
In collaboration with PPG, Dow is helping provide low-carbon anti-corrosion solutions to the industrial coatings market that can help lessen high maintenance costs of steel infrastructure.
On November 7, 2019 Dow hosted a tree planting event in Louisiana to officially kick off its reforestation commitment with Restore the Earth Foundation, in which 400 acres of bald cypress trees will be planted to help restore the critical ecosystem known as North America’s Amazon.
In a joint initiative, the International Olympic Committee and its Official Carbon Partner, Dow, is incentivizing and supporting International Sports Federations and National Olympic Committees as they integrate sustainability into their operations and events.
In the first collaboration of Dow’s carbon partnership in North America, Dow and Firestone Building Products (Firestone) came together to support the creation of an energy modeling tool that will accurately describe reductions in cost, energy and greenhouse gas emissions of commercial structures that use Firestone’s innovative polyurethane roofing insulation compared with traditional alternatives.
Together, Dow and PETRONAS Chemicals Glycols are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the operations of PETRONAS Chemicals Glycols global Ethylene Oxide (EO) plant by leveraging a higher performance proprietary EO catalyst from Dow.
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