Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Packaging giant hopes that its new principles will cut waste, boost the amount of reyclable packaging materials on the market and address a widespread confusion among consumers over what types of packaging are recyclable. The firm is aiming to get at least 500 of the world's Fortune 2000 companies to use the tool by 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws. power in Q1 2020 compared to 39 percent in Q1 2000. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. In the U.K.,

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

Companies that rely on water for food production, packaging, and other manufacturing processes are also at risk as well as the companies they supply. Companies outspent environmental interest groups 10:1 on lobbying between 2000-2016. With the megadrought affecting the U.S. businesses and the communities they operate in, right now.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

The GFC prompted big, swift stimulus packages from governments around the world, leading to a 5.1 Global fossil CO2 emissions (in Gigatons or billions of tonnes of CO2) and carbon intensity of world Gross Domestic Product (grams of CO2 per $US, 2000), with the most important financial crises. The emissions rebound.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. And I am seeing really good regulation in China over the quality of packaging based on our biological and technical nutrient conversations with them. McDonough: I was in Hannover, working there with Michael. We wrote them from New York.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Suppliers tend to be large, vertically integrated operations, often complete with facilities for manufacturing chicken feed and processing and packaging chicken meat. From 2000 to 2016, the global obesity rate increased by 4.4 percent, according to an FAO estimate. In West and Southern Africa, the rate was substantially higher. “As

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 29, 2018

Demand growth in beef has dropped from 10% in 2000 to under 2% in 2017. Taking insect protein as an example, despite China’s culinary history with bugs, silkworm is the only insect legally permitted in packaged foods sold in China today. The demand for pork has peaked, well ahead of most official forecasts.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 29, 2018

Demand growth in beef has dropped from 10% in 2000 to under 2% in 2017. Taking insect protein as an example, despite China’s culinary history with bugs, silkworm is the only insect legally permitted in packaged foods sold in China today. The demand for pork has peaked, well ahead of most official forecasts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to an analysis published by Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, the transport, processing, retail, and packaging of food, account for only a small share of emissions, while most GHG emissions caused by animal agriculture result from the production of the meat itself. kg CO2e per day. .

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

MJ l –1 —as much as 2000 times the energy cost of producing tap water.” No health benefits whatsoever have been shown, with the rare exception of avoiding an outbreak of E. coli, from preferring bottled water to tap water, and yet the cost difference is truly astounding. In fact, Gleick and Cooley (2009, para.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Founded in 2000, Ecocem has four manufacturing facilities across Western Europe, selling into several major international markets including France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, the UK, etc. Decarbonizing packaging Since the 1950s, the world has produced over 9 billion tons (bt) of plastics.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She draws upon years of data gathered from climate protests as early as COP6 in 2000 and lessons from the world’s response to COVID-19 to understand how civil society has responded to 30 years of ineffectual international climate negotiations.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Sometime before year 2000, the Mexican government, to grow more corn in the desert, pumped the water down 70 meters, drying up streams. That’s so much cheaper and easier than sending fish — it’s a smaller package, without worrying about water. They returned to collect more in the wild, but the fish were eradicated.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

A recent study linked PFAS in drinking water and household products such as food packaging to startling decreases in fertility in women. 3M started winding down production of AFFF in 2000 as the EPA ramped up pressure on the chemical giant to disclose information about its products. But other companies stepped in to fill the void.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Danone has been threatened with court action in France over its plastic packaging footprint by an NGO coalition led by ClientEarth, which claims the global food products giant "has never adopted adequate measures to address the harm related to its use of plastics".

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A study by McKinsey & Company uncovered that in 2014 the average person owned 60% more clothes than the average consumer in 2000, but only wore them for half as long. In the constant search for ‘newness’, wardrobes are constantly updated and changed, with clothing becoming as disposable as the packaging it arrives in.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Globally, the annual production of plastics has doubled over the past two decades, soaring from 234 million tonnes in 2000 to 460 million tonnes in 2019, the report states. And today, packaging giant Tetra Pak announced it has co-invested over €11.5m What has happened to all that plastic waste?

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

Wind energy planning participation has been characterized by a “decide-announce-defend” model, in which communities are expected to either support or oppose a project (Wolsink 2000). Community benefits are often “packages,” with agreements and payments to meet specific community needs, such as a power purchase agreement or internet access.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. . Use eco-friendly packaging. The average U.S. consumer now purchases one item of clothing every 5.5 days and wears the item 36% less over its lifecycle, generating 82 pounds of textile waste each year.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Hannover had just won the World’s Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. And I am seeing really good regulation in China over the quality of packaging based on our biological and technical nutrient conversations with them. McDonough: I was in Hannover, working there with Michael. We just did it.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 23, 2023

The systems and services you will assist in supporting are crucial for the daily operations of over 2000 employees based in 10 locations statewide. We combine one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation with a strong commitment to life/work balance.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Meanwhile, product innovation in everything from packaging to proteins is helping to curb land use impacts. Unless we reverse nature loss, trillions of dollars will be wiped off the world's economies - WWF's Global Futures report. Beyond Meat is one of a growing number of firms selling vegan-friendly proteins | Credit: Beyond Meat.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 18, 2022

Through tailored policy packages, African countries can harness their strengths and resources to overcome long-established structural dependencies.”. “The transition offers a unique opportunity for Africa to meet its development imperatives.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum. Waste comes in all types of packaged and unpackaged methods and it can even come in a dump truck so long as the transporter follows the DOT [Department of Transportation] and RRC rules.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

trillion federal spending and tax extension package negotiated by congressional leaders over the weekend alongside a $900 billion coronavirus relief package. Schumer’s office also shared details of the Energy Act of 2000, a massive energy RD&D funding package brought into the broader spending package last week.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

Some economists at the time warned that unconditional airline bailouts would have the lowest economic benefit and highest negative climate impact among a range of suggested support packages for different sectors. Up to 68 percent of UK farmland would be needed to produce enough crop-based biofuels, which still generate emissions when burned.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

The first non-Chinese ‘pre-coins’ (ingots) appeared in Asia Minor before 2000 BCE. Mortgages are sold to investment banks, who package thousands of them together as securities (types of bonds). For this reason, banknotes appeared hundreds of years earlier in China, for high-value payments. 700 BCE – c. 600 CE: The Axial Age.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2000, the recreational abalone diving industry contributed an estimated $17 million toward local economies; commercial red urchins raked in a state average of $2.6 With no small hint of pride, he showed off the long counters where the prized red urchin gonads would be scooped out, arranged, and packaged on ice to ship to sushi restaurants.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2000, the recreational abalone diving industry contributed an estimated $17 million toward local economies; commercial red urchins raked in a state average of $2.6 With no small hint of pride, he showed off the long counters where the prized red urchin gonads would be scooped out, arranged, and packaged on ice to ship to sushi restaurants.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2022

The historic climate, health and tax package cleared by Congress last week could drive catalytic change in the US carbon dioxide removal industry, writes BeZero Carbon's Victoria Harvey. DAC, for example, requires 2000 kWh to remove one tonne of CO2. We are at a watershed moment for global climate policy.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

Later in the year, he appointed new leadership to oversee oil and gas regulation in the state, and he signed a package of bills that placed constraints on fossil fuel production. In July 2019, he fired the state’s top oil and gas regulator for issuing too many permits to hydraulically fracture, or frack, wells.

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