The Environmental Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Inefficient properties are not only facing high penalties but are being neglected as tenants prefer building that is efficient. More stringent limits will be applicable in 2030, and reducing emissions below 2030 limits will be a major technical challenge for inefficient buildings. The building energy grades are updated every year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

And while many already buy and sell pre-loved clothes, more are open to alternatives schemes to ‘buy new’ shopping like subscriptions, preloved and rental. Today, non-padded coats and jackets have the longest lifespans at more than six years apiece, while underwear and bras have the briefest at just 2.7 years respectively.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Let’s not neglect the fact that these enterprises are frequently on the move, at various locations and service different volumes of customers each day. However, governments worldwide are leaning towards green technologies, making the adoption of hydrogen-powered food trucks more likely. But is it practical? Absolutely.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

Former Chancellor Philip Hammond accuses politicians of being "systematically dishonest " about the estimated £1tr cost of achieving net zero, as he fails to inform readers that his estimate neglects to include the huge savings that would come from slashing the UK's reliance on fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

“But the damage is just as or more significant, because the main chemicals that leach into our watercourses from farming, nitrogen and phosphorus, starve the water of oxygen and kill a lot of the wildlife.”. A seemingly far more tractable threat to water quality is the sewage-polluted water that is discharged from CSOs by water companies.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Many small businesses might think that choosing the more responsible route isn’t always an option, since it entails huge costs that can otherwise be allocated for operational expenses. Guide your employees to make more sustainable choices. However, that’s really not the case. Use sustainable packaging. But take it easy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

More and more water resources are being polluted, overexploited, and dried up by humans, sometimes with irreversible consequences. The report raises the issue of the lack of groundwater data and emphasizes that groundwater monitoring is often a ‘neglected area’. Unlocking groundwater’s full potential – what needs to be done?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Almost a third of young people want sustainability and climate change to be covered in more detail at school, a UK survey of 7-17 year olds has found. UK survey of 7-17 year-olds also highlights concern their views are not listened to by policymakers on climate change and environmental issues.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

Scientists said the deluge and its aftermath — not the county’s first “100-year flood” in recent years — are a harbinger of the intense and dangerous rainstorms that a warming climate is making more likely. A belief commonly held is that global warming will produce more extreme weather,” the published paper read.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

However, these plans often neglect the role of the distribution grid and miss an opportunity to leverage a tool that has been part of the system almost since its inception: the meter. However, today’s next-generation smart meters have the potential to do much more.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

“Sustainable agriculture plays a consequential role in slowing climate change by sequestering carbon and increasing biodiversity, yet practices today often counter these benefits by neglecting soil health and relying too heavily on fertilizers and pesticides,” said Planet CEO and co-founder Will Marshall. Zurich Insurance Group.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In the rapidly evolving energy sector, smart grid IoT applications are driving a profound transformation towards a greener and more sustainable future. On the other hand, neglecting IoT-based predictive maintenance can have serious repercussions.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2023

The article neglects to mention that Lawson also set up the influential Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) think tank, a major source of climate science denial and unwavering supporter of fossil fuels. Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay told DeSmog: “Nigel Lawson is the climate denier-in-chief.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

’ It’s one of a long series of microgrid enablement plans being proposed by the Northern California utility, which is under tight scrutiny for its neglect of grid maintenance that led to the state’s deadliest wildfire to date and its subsequent bankruptcy. But the utility has four to eight projects it could invest up to $6.5

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Chief Kelsey Jacko told an Edmonton crowd that the Pathways Alliance, a lobbying and marketing effort by Canada’s top oil sands producers, has neglected to consult his community on a massive carbon capture storage network project Pathways claims will be able to store 1,100 megatonnes of carbon dioxide.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Outlaw Ocean Project documented the forcible transfer of more than a thousand Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities 2,000 miles from their homes in landlocked Xinjiang to 10 fish processing plants in the coastal province of Shandong since 2018. The Outlaw Ocean Project/Photographer: Ed Ou, July 9, 2022.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The BBSRC, which happens to be the UK’s biggest public funder of non-medical bioscience, made the commitment in its 2022-2025 strategic delivery plan to invest in “capacity building, research, innovation and business-led commercialisation to help develop alternative, more sustainable protein sources.” Win for seafood lovers.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

Changing the way food is produced and consumed could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by more than 10 gigatonnes a year, a figure higher than pre-pandemic emissions from global transport and residential energy use combined, according to fresh research today. Moreover, a third of all food produced in the world - approximately 1.3

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

We’ve just sort of neglected many other pieces of communicating that don’t have to do with providing information,” Kearns said. So it follows that the underlying reasons people dismiss climate science have more to do with political identity than logic. “And I’m still reckoning with it.”.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Our aversion to proper, long-term industrial strategy is costing us billions already but even worse - it's costing us the foundations of a more prosperous future," he warned. Because nothing reeks of decline more than the idea Britain no longer knows how to build things - I won't accept that. You can never say it enough," he said. "If

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Phil Oldbury of infrastructure asset management software firm Yotta , writes about the opportunities that exist to streamline and improve the functioning of a traditionally neglected service area. The level of data coming back to the council from these sorts of ‘binfrastructure’ innovations helps it look at trends and plan more effectively.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It means that the government has no strategic concern about reducing consumption, solely because we have energy traders who can always source more from somewhere in the world. One in four households are now currently estimated to be in fuel poverty - needing to spend 10 per cent or more of disposable income to try to keep warm.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Assessment of public companies across Europe adds to growing library of reports calling for more robust approach to corporate climate action Climate transition plans have abounded within the European business community, but the quality of these strategies remains patchy at best. pathway.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

A report published today by UK-based consultancy Vivid Economics warns many governments are neglecting to consider the broader sustainability and resilience impacts of company bailouts and stimulus packages offered to the agriculture, industry, transport, energy and manufacturing waste sectors.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Our 25 Year Environment Plan made clear that while the public sector will continue to be a central source of funding, it is critical that this is alongside more private sector investment to protect and enhance our natural environment," said Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 1, 2021

More often than not, history provides an example of how the ingenuity of mankind solves ostensibly impossible tasks. People find it easy to neglect the period as insignificant on many fronts, but today we focus on an interesting feature of something that was common in those ages, but is not in the present. Where to start?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

There are further recognised dangers arising from the neglectful extended storage or dumping of excess quantities of agrochemicals, especially into natural watercourses. In the past, eradicating chemicals from wastewater has been achieved by using even more chemicals. Turning tides.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 25, 2023

He called on international funding bodies to make more private sector financing available. It’s time to speak more about concrete things, no longer just political messages. It’s time to speak more about concrete things, no longer just political messages. 60-65% of the [energy] sector is privately owned.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 25, 2023

Community residents found the solutions offered by North Las Vegas inadequate, and the problems grew more complex. These sentiments re-opened wounds to a collective past plagued with racial discrimination, neglect and environmental injustice. On the day of the event, six volunteers helped me, and more than 50 people attended!

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While carbon emissions drive climate change, focusing solely on emissions reduction neglects the interdependence of Planetary Boundaries and broader sustainability issues. Looking beyond carbon Businesses must plan for rapid and comprehensive transformation.

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Rinexii

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Fires have been raging up and down the west coast, and with it quite a few assumptions about why more fires are happening. According to CNN, in Washington alone more acreage has burned than in the last 12 fire seasons combined. Yes, climate change is making wildfires more extreme. No, Antifa Did Not Set Oregon Fires.

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Terra Infirma

APRIL 3, 2023

Meanwhile public transport has deteriorated through neglect and cycling is seen as a niche. In wider society, it is a lot more difficult due to the huge numbers of people concerned. I replied that, in my opinion, this is probably one of the trickiest societal changes to make.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

It argues decades of deindustrialisation and neglect have reduced morale of the UK's steel sector which has led to a widespread perception it is a sunset industry, but adds that the net zero transition provides a major opportunity to transform the sector's fortunes. "If

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

It concluded that investments of £8.88bn in the region could generate thousands of jobs while reducing Cumbria's carbon emissions by more than half and slashing £854m off Cumbria's annual energy bill compared to a business-as-usual scenario.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We now have more than a dozen loaned small generators up and running along with numerous propane heaters keeping all our animals on the property safe and warm.” Primarily Primates is home to animals formerly used and often neglected in labs, the entertainment industry and the exotic pet trade.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 28, 2020

In the years following, the neglected commercial site sat unoccupied, morphing from a back-land plot into garages and eventually a working scrapyard. This allowed optimal light to shine into the habitable rooms, no matter what time of day, while making the homes feel more expansive, regardless of the narrow width of the building plot.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

From Shell’s 1998 forecast: “Following the storms, a coalition of environmental NGOs brings a class-action suit against the US government and fossil-fuel companies on the grounds of neglecting what scientists (including their own) have been saying for years: that something must be done.

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