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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

Shell agreed to fund their relocation in 2002 — but Hawkins’ family was one of the few who decided to stay. Credit: Abbey Dufoe Many of Shell’s latest ads highlight a new five-year collaboration between Shell and Henkel of North America, a manufacturer of household cleaning products. Flaring along the Mississippi River.

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How to Select a Sustainability Certification for Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Through its framework of Living Building Challenges, Petal Certification Programs and Declare Products, it has become a leader in creating a new standard of performance for buildings and materials that are required by local governments across North America.

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New Shell Files Could Aid Climate Cases, Attorneys Say 

DeSmogBlog

Hüzeir believes the latest tranche of documents will strengthen cases brought by climate litigators in Europe and North America, in part by providing clues to the possible existence of additional Shell documents that could be obtained through discovery — a pre-trial procedure in the U.S.

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Above the canopy: The peatland rainforest towers aiming to transform climate science

Business Green

In 2002, Sumatra's peatlands stored at least 18.8 Sumatra alone has seen 90 per cent of its rainforest destroyed or degraded, and between 1990 and 2002, around 1.1 Compare that to the hundreds operating across North America, and similar numbers across Europe.

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