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Smart Energy Voices features conversations with leaders of the energy transition. In each episode, Smart Energy Decisions' Debra Chanil digs deep with industry movers and shakers to reveal insights you can learn from in their stories, personalities and visions for the future.
Smart and Connected: AT&T’s Carbon-Neutral Future, Ep. 116
Smart Energy Voices
32 minutes
8 months ago
Smart and Connected: AT&T’s Carbon-Neutral Future, Ep. 116
In this episode of Smart Energy Voices, host Debra Chanil speaks with Shannon Carroll, AVP of Global Environmental Sustainability at AT&T, about the company’s innovative approach to sustainability and its commitment to achieving a carbon-neutral future. Shannon highlights AT&T’s ambitious goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2035 and reduce their business customers' emissions by one gigaton by 2035 through Smart Climate Solutions. He discusses the challenges businesses face, such as capital allocation and energy optimization, and how AT&T addresses these with solutions that reduce emissions and improve operational efficiency. Shannon also shares insights into efforts to enhance climate resilience through advanced climate data tools and its contributions to the circular economy.
You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in…
AT&T's environmental sustainability portfolio (05:05)
Initiatives to achieve AT&T’s goals (07:28)
Approaches to renewable energy (10:46)
Smart Climate Solutions and AT&T’s gigaton goal (15:20)
Challenges in driving sustainability (17:51)
The importance of climate data and how it works (19:28)
Circular economy initiatives (24:41)
Next steps in sustainability and climate resilience (27:16)
For detailed show notes, click here.
Resources:
ClimRR Portal
AT&T’s Goals and Progress
AT&T Environmental Sustainability Website
AT&T Carbon Neutrality Work Webpag
AT&T Climate Resilience Webpage
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Shannon Thomas Carroll is AVP of Global Environmental Sustainability at AT&T. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s environmental leadership strategy, including its 2035 goals to be carbon neutral across its global operations and to save its business customers a gigaton of greenhouse gas emissions through AT&T connectivity solutions. The company is also using cutting-edge climate projections to build a more climate-resilient network and sharing that data publicly to help communities better prepare for extreme weather events. Shannon brings over 20 years of broad AT&T experience to his current role, including expertise in sustainability program management and supply chain sustainability.
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Smart Energy Voices
Smart Energy Voices features conversations with leaders of the energy transition. In each episode, Smart Energy Decisions' Debra Chanil digs deep with industry movers and shakers to reveal insights you can learn from in their stories, personalities and visions for the future.
