Invisible but vital, oxygen flows through water like a lifeline, sustaining aquatic life from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish and maintaining the delicate balance of ecosystems. However, this critical resource is not guaranteed. Oxygen levels in water can decline because of such factors as warming temperatures, increased salinity, stagnation, excess minerals like iron, and agricultural or industrial exploitation.

This year’s annual United Nations climate summit, COP 29, is the first COP meeting to focus on finance in 15 years, and among the major agenda items delegates have been discussing are financial commitments by wealthier countries to help developing nations transition their energy infrastructure away from coal and other high-emissions sources and toward more renewable forms of energy.

Earlier this week, GE Vernova released its 2023 Sustainability Report, our inaugural Sustainability Report as an independent, publicly traded company. We encourage you to review the materials on GE Vernova’s dedicated Sustainability website.

In the report, you will find:

GE Vernova now has nearly six months under its belt as a standalone purpose-built energy technology company. Nimbler and with a new stock listing and management team, the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based company is only getting started, unfurling its sails and setting a course all its own.

In 2009, the United States Department of Energy was seeking a dose of radical thinking. Early that year, its newly created Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) issued an open call for “the most revolutionary energy technologies.” If ARPA-E officials were expecting a steady trickle of ideas from business, academia, and research laboratories, they were wrong. They’d just opened the floodgates.

On Nov. 2, GE Vernova christened its new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a grand opening attended by community leaders from the Greater Boston area, including special guests Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and U.S. Ambassador David Thorne.