Noorie Rajvanshi on sustainability as part of everyday work

Noorie Rajvanshi is Director of Sustainability and Climate Strategy at Siemens USA, part of a multinational technology company. She is currently responsible for supporting the strategy and execution of the Siemens US region’s decarbonization plan to achieve net-zero operations by 2030.Noorie talked to us about her family’s sustainability roots, her mechanical engineering background, and how her fascination with quantifying environmental impact led, eventually, to her role at Siemens. She also shared a bit about Siemens, an engineering giant, is combining real and digital worlds to tackle issues of smart infrastructure, built space, and mobility. She is proud of her work on performance tools to support cities with ambitious GHG reduction goals and of her current work on carbon pricing.<br/><br/>Noorie calls herself a climate optimist and a climate realist. And she says that she feels part of a movement -- one that is changing for the better. “The movement is not as exclusive as it once was. Some folks might scoff about the notion that ‘everyone is a sustainability professional’ but I think that is the goal we are working towards. Sustainability is not an additional thing, it is part of our everyday work."<br/><br/>Noorie told us that the people who inspire her most right now are the people, such as electricians, who are changing their jobs to do more of what’s ahead because of the sustainability movement. “They are becoming experts on heat pumps and EV chargers and more -- and that’s inspiring to me.”<br/>