Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Innovation continues to be the lowest scoring area – at a time when there are widespread calls for water companies to find new ways of working to address key challenges. The average score for innovation was 6.4, Northumbrian Water led the pack with an average innovation score of 7.9, out of ten.

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Innovation Policy Sustainability 147

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond. The crisis also has multiplied the insecurity of some workers and left some precious material supply chains, such as cashmere and exotic skins, even more vulnerable. . Elisa Niemtzow. Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:00. Deepen luxury’s value proposition.

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Innovation Fashion Resilience Sustainability 451

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

All the glitters: Beautycounter and the mica supply chain (17:30) . All the glitters: Beautycounter and the mica supply chain (17:30) . Outakes from the reporting behind Joel Makower's two-part series about the mica supply chain and retailer Beautycounter's work to address the sector's big child labor problem.

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Retail Fashion Biodiversity Innovation 458

GreenBiz

MARCH 28, 2022

Learn how diverse industries are collaborating and innovating to advance a net-zero future for ammonia. Nutrien, the world’s largest provider of crop inputs, services and solutions, is actively pursuing sustainable and productive agriculture and emissions reduction targets. Emissions reduction is front and center around the world.

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Agriculture Carbon Transportation Innovation 327

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

A new survey from British Water points to an ongoing lack of innovation uptake by water companies and their delivery partners. Innovation was again the lowest scoring area in 2021 – at a time when regulator Ofwat is encouraging water companies to find new ways of working to address key issues, without increasing customer bills.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

A new briefing from think tank organisation the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) argues that the clean energy transition can be delivered on time and at an affordable cost if supply chain risks are minimised by policy and industry action. The energy transition is fundamentally achievable if supply chain risks are managed.

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Technology Energy Energy Lithium 189

The Environmental Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The EU Deforestation Regulation , a significant leap forward in sustainable commerce, focuses on mitigating the EU’s deforestation footprint. It’s not just about being on the right side of the law – it’s about protecting our forests, maintaining biodiversity, and fostering responsible supply chains.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Law 150

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The practice of farming finfish, shellfish and aquatic plants — by land and by sea — dates back 3,000 years as first the Chinese and then the Romans sought ways to supplement their food supplies with species such as carp and oysters. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here.

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Seafood Startups Health Organic 526

GreenBiz

JUNE 28, 2022

Lean: WEAR and no TEAR How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation What goes up must come down To arrest the growing effect on nature and curtail the rise in temperatures, countries across the globe are devising measures to rejuvenate Mother Earth. The aim is to reverse the temperature by 1.5-2.0

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Innovation Fashion Retail Pollution 312

Planet Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

Agricultural supply chains are facing growing climate and economic disruptions, but we can create a more secure and sustainable world by speeding R&D cycles and optimizing seed supply. Our satellites capture images of global farming across the Earth at a near-daily cadence. Bayer is going through a transformation.

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Resilience Carbon-neutral Agriculture Health 117

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As the first generation of the UK’s wind turbines come to the end of their serviceable life, a project called “Re-Rewind” aims to help develop a sustainable, circular economy to recover and secure the essential resources needed for the next.

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Recycling Recycling Sustainability Wind power 147

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Over the past year, agricultural commodities giant Cargill stepped up its global sustainability initiatives substantially, with a series of programs created to support its science-based target of reducing supply chain emissions by 30 percent by 2030. . Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Permutable AI , an award-winning UK start-up in the field of ESG data, has been awarded a grant by the UK’s innovation agency Innovate UK, to improve accuracy in predicting the world’s CO2 emissions trajectory. Most large company carbon emissions come from their supply chains and the SMEs in them.

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Carbon Innovation Technology Pollution 246

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil. They've innovated on raw materials, resulting in Aquafil's Econyl yarn that it recycles from ghost fishing nets, carpet fluff and other would-be waste. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 06/29/2020 - 02:00. It’s an enviable alliance that has outlasted most marriages.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The onshore wind industry and the Scottish Government have also committed to creating a sustainable solution for a circular economy supply chain for the recycling, refurbishing and repurposing of decommissioned wind turbine component parts.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This has put sustainability departments of large companies in the position of having to build the plane while flying it. . "We We feel like we need to start taking action today and start taking steps," Heather Tansey, sustainability director at Cargill, said during a GreenBiz 21 session this week on nature and regeneration. "We

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Agriculture Soil Climate change Biodiversity 410

GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. The coronavirus pandemic is a classic Black Swan.

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Incubators Incubators Resilience Innovation 466

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30.

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Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 534

GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

AB InBev VP: Our quest for 'agile' sustainable development continues. Barcenas, the executive responsible for managing that plan and part of the GreenBiz 2020 Badass Women in Sustainability list , joined the company seven years ago. Heather Clancy: How has the pandemic changed the immediate focus of the AB InBev sustainability team?

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Recycling Recycling 270

Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

National Grid has launched the ‘Great Grid Partnership’ to address supply chain and skills challenges in delivering major upgrades to Britain’s transmission grid. All our chosen partners have an established history of successful collaboration in delivering major projects and enabling innovation to thrive. Have you read?

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Construction Innovation Electricity Investment 52

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Stephen Kennedy is head of digital and innovation at MWH Treatment, a firm offering end-to-end treatment projects for water and wastewater. What does ‘sustainable water sector’ actually mean? One of the biggest challenges is defining what ‘sustainable’ actually means for the water sector.

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Sustainability Politics Resilience Biodiversity 261

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2024

Budget 2024 is equally focused on continuing this government’s efforts to grow a more sustainable economy. Indeed, clean energy is the only lasting way to cut energy bills for Canadians. To that end, the federal government’s popular EV rebate program received a $607.9 million top-up to ensure it does not run out. It also provides $73.5

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle to get companies to take sustainability seriously is essentially over. I’ve spent two decades arguing that sustainability is good for companies. I’d love to stop making the “business case” — ideally because sustainability, like previous business movements around safety and quality, no longer has to justify its existence.

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Climate change Law Sustainability Demand 148

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

As well as this, we need to find more sustainable production methods and ways to use naturally occurring materials as part of battery manufacturing. Graphite or carbon electrodes are a core component of standard lithium-ion batteries, but can only store a limited amount of charge and have a restricted overall life-span.

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Electric vehicle Batteries Electricity Biotechnology 323

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

It helps drafters to find climate clauses and sustainability solutions that can be applied throughout the entire building lifecycle, according to the collaborating partners behind it, UK law firm TLT and The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP).

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Real Estate Law Climate change Sustainability 243

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

John Collins, deputy director of evidence assessment and evaluation at the Environment Agency, said that despite having one of the most robust pollutants testing systems globally, rapid investment in innovation is needed to detect all sources of contamination from both established and newly emerging pollutants.

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Innovation Ozone Technology Pollution 147

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Victoria Judd, a lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, considers the sustainability credentials of biomass, and what this bodes for its future. In the aftermath of BREXIT and in view of COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, the UK has been focussing on decarbonisation in relation to its infrastructure and power offerings.

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Technology Energy Energy Fossil fuels 264

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

million grant by UK Research and Innovation. A project of this kind is being led by the University of Surrey, which has been awarded a £1.4 million grant by UK Research and Innovation. A project of this kind is being led by the University of Surrey, which has been awarded a £1.4

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Energy Monitor Waste Waste Home Energy Monitoring 264

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

We’re absolutely delighted to have achieved this goal and now, our next step is to become greener and to strengthen our commitment to the environment by having sustainable values embedded in our company. From L-R: Dr Johann Partridge (MiAlgae), Rebecca Kean (Falkirk Distillery), Douglas Martin (MiAlgae), Fiona Stewart (Falkirk Distillery).

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Biotechnology Waste Waste Sustainability 246

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

A new research project aims to deliver a sustainable source of rare earth magnets for electric and hybrid vehicles for one of the most sought after luxury car brands in the world. The collaborative effort was announced on 18 February by the University of Birmingham and Bentley Motors.

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Recycling Recycling Patents Innovation 238

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The UK water sector should give more focus to the themes of delivering resilient infrastructure systems and protecting and enhancing natural systems, according to a survey about the UK 2050 Water Innovation Strategy. Spring, the water innovation centre of excellence, launched the sector-wide survey in July 2023.

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Innovation Resilience Sustainability Technology 147

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. The project will start in January 2021 and will run for 3 years, by which time the partners expect the circular supply chain to be operating commercially.

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Batteries Electricity Electric vehicle Recycling 189

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

A new approach to growing algae in Scotland could offer a sustainable boost for the aquaculture and agriculture sectors, by providing locally sourced, alternative protein sources and ingredients for feeds. For this project, species were specifically selected for their commercial viability, to minimise potential waste and maximise value.

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Sustainability Biotechnology South America Waste 130

Energy Central

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Metal Recycling Conference and Expo is the must-attend event for recycling companies, critical raw material suppliers, and the entire metals recycling supply chain to come together to discover the latest innovations and solutions to create a circular economy for used metals and help create sustainable supply chains for the future.

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Recycling Recycling Innovation Sustainability 52

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Hydrogen can be used in innovative ways in industries like steel manufacturing (image credit: Zhang Sheng / Shutterstock.com) In a bid to elevate transparency and confidence in the UK’s low carbon hydrogen sector, the UK government has outlined plans for “a globally recognised low carbon hydrogen certification scheme.”

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Hydrogen Carbon Fossil fuels Government 233

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Air Quality expert Air Spectrum Environmental has launched the dust suppression industry’s first eco-friendly battery-operated range of misting equipment in a bid to improve the sustainability of the supply chain of many industries.

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Carbon-neutral Construction Batteries Carbon 130

Solar Industry

APRIL 16, 2024

Sol Systems and SOLARCYCLE have formed a partnership with the aim of ensuring Sol Systems’ energy projects are sustainable throughout a solar panel’s lifecycle by addressing the challenge of recycling and reusing retired panels. Extracted materials are then refined and reintroduced into the domestic supply chain.

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