[In-It] Have you ever heard of the climate crisis Avengers?

I enjoyed watching Marvel's Avengers movie.

The splendid CG and action, and the great heroes' activities are also fun, and there are also quite touching parts.

In the most recent series, the setting that Thanos, who terrified the universe, collected Infinity Stones to prevent environmental disasters caused by population growth and explosive resource consumption became a topic.

There are often people who respond that they think of Thanos in the movie as they suffer from overflowing trash and worsening weather.

The wildfire, which started with thousands of lightning strikes in the dry sky with the worst heatwave in California in the United States, is burning on a terrifying scale.

The largest fire has already burned over 1,500 km2 of forests and villages, and the second large fire is of similar size, both of which have not yet extinguished.

In Korea, the powerful 9 typhoon'Mysak' hit the Korean peninsula in the early morning of today (3rd) before all the damage of typhoon'Babi' was restored, but another typhoon is coming to Korea one after another.

The feeling is even more disturbing as the corona relapses overlap.

The climate crisis, which the UN Secretary-General described last year as a ``complete catastrophe,'' in an interview with Reuters, is a problem that cannot be solved properly by reducing the use of disposable items, turning off the air conditioner briefly, or eating a vegetarian diet once a week.

At the national level, the use of coal, oil, and natural gas must be drastically reduced. To do so, energy conversion at the corporate level such as Samsung and Hyundai is necessary, not individual units such as Kim and Lee.

But did you say that a hero appears in a turbulent world?

In the face of the climate crisis, companies have announced their meaningful goals and have made a transition.

a corporate energy conversion project that

to provide 100% renewable energy (mostly solar and wind power) for its

.

It is called'RE100', with 242 companies around the world participating, and Apple declared RE100 in the early days and achieved this goal early in 2016.

The early achievement of 100% renewable energy by renowned companies like Apple became a big topic for meaningful achievements.

However, on the one hand, since Apple is a company that does not manufacture products directly, it was easy to achieve, and there were criticisms that it was unfair to compare itself with manufacturing companies such as Samsung Electronics.

As if answering this criticism, Apple announced a new goal on July 22 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in all areas, including parts, as much as possible, and offset the unreduced parts with other efforts to achieve carbon emission neutrality. did.

Apple also unveiled 71 partners that will participate in zero carbon emissions on this day, and Korean companies included SK Hynix.

In addition, TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor production company, Foxconn (Honghai Precision), which operates an iPhone assembly plant, and Sony semiconductor solutions were included in the list.

Apple is an absolute leader in the market, selling numerous products, including expensive tablets and laptop computers, mainly iPhones.

Apple's setting of this carbon-neutral target is noteworthy, as it has recently become one of the most valuable companies in the world with a market capitalization of over $2 trillion.

If other mobile phone makers join the move, we will be able to reduce our worries about greenhouse gas emissions, at least in mobile phone production.

Semiconductor production is an industry that uses a lot of electricity.

So, the complaining that it is difficult for semiconductor production companies to convert to the use of renewable energy was persuasive.

In fact, none of the 242 companies that signed up for RE100 were semiconductor manufacturers.

However, on July 27, when TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor company, fully joined RE100, the large-scale manufacturing industry brought a major reversal of the existing perception that it was difficult to convert renewable energy.

Taiwanese semiconductor companies can be considered as small and medium-sized companies, but TSMC is a large semiconductor company that surpassed Samsung Electronics as of November 25, 2019, based on market cap.

As of August 31, 2020, TSMC's market capitalization is $392.1 billion (Samsung Electronics $273.1 billion).

From the point of view of Koreans, it is subtly disheartening that Samsung Electronics has been pushed by Taiwanese companies in terms of market capitalization, but the fact that the first semiconductor company to join RE100 has not become Korea's Samsung Semiconductor or SK Hynix.

TSMC's 100% renewable energy conversion target is 2050, and its intermediate target is to reach 25% by 2030.

To this end, TSMC has signed a contract to purchase all of the electricity from a super-large offshore wind power of 1.2 gigawatts scheduled for completion in 2025.

For reference, the total scale of wind turbines installed in Korea is 1.5 gigawatts.

As giant semiconductor companies such as TSMC start purchasing renewable energy, large-scale renewable energy businesses are expected to gain more momentum and have a positive impact on greenhouse gas reduction.

There are already speculations in foreign media that Samsung Electronics will not join RE100 following TSMC.

, founded in 2003 to help solve the climate change problem by opening the era of

electric vehicle, has achieved a surplus for the last four consecutive quarters.

Along with this, the stock price surged due to several factors.

In May, Tesla surprised people by chasing the market cap of Toyota in Japan to the bottom of the chin, but only three months later, at the end of August, it exceeded the market cap of $400 billion, more than double the market cap of Toyota.

In terms of the environment, Tesla's share price rise is not really significant.

This is because the increase in Tesla stock price does not mean that greenhouse gases will decrease.

What is meaningful in terms of solving the climate crisis is that Tesla is expanding and building large factories in China, the United States, and Germany.

Electric vehicles are not environmentally perfect, but they are much more energy efficient than conventional vehicles that use gasoline, diesel or LPG as fuel.

In addition to this, the environment can be continuously improved as it can be charged with zero greenhouse gas electricity made from solar and wind power.

Tesla is currently capable of producing about 500,000 electric vehicles per year, and is expected to increase its production capacity to about 1 million by the end of 2021.

What's encouraging about Tesla's move is that Tesla's success serves as a catalyst for other automakers to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles.

Volkswagen has already developed and started selling an electric car-only model called'ID3', saying that Volkswagen should also catch up with Tesla, and Hyundai Motors is also showing progress more than in the past by more aggressively launching electric cars.

Several companies, including the ones introduced above, are doing things that help solve the climate crisis, but they are not enough to reduce greenhouse gases as needed in the time we have given us.

There are a lot of companies that are aesthetic, and there are still a lot of companies that do things that do harm rather than help.

How can we get more companies to do things like Apple, TSMC and Tesla to help solve the climate crisis?

The answer is simple.

Systems need to be created so that even more mobile phone companies and automakers can set carbon neutral targets and commit to achieving targets such as expanding renewable energy.

At the same time, lines must be drawn to stop what companies are doing that are not helpful, such as building coal-fired power plants.

If you think that the expansion of renewable energy and the conversion of electric vehicles are adversely affecting corporate activities, I recommend looking at how Apple, TSMC and Tesla are performing as companies and how the stock price moves.

As of the end of August 2020, Apple, TSMC, and Tesla, which are active in responding to renewable energy and climate change, are all doing well.

It's also very good.

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