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James “Jim” Gowen is senior vice president of Global Supply Chain Operations and chief sustainability officer at Verizon. Jim is deeply involved in advancing innovative and sustainable technologies and spearheaded the issuance of Verizon’s first $1 billion green bond. Through Jim’s leadership, Verizon has issued $2 billion in green bonds as of 2020 to provide capital for Verizon’s renewable energy, energy efficiency, water conservation, and reforestation projects. Jim has implemented a carbon intensity metric and paper suppression, waste reduction, recycling, and management of end-of-life material recovery programs.
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Pagitsas, C. (2022). James Gowen. In: Chief Sustainability Officers At Work. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7866-6_12
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