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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

It’s been an honor and a privilege to track Europe’s energy transition for the sector’s most discerning audience. Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ The firm had 370 megawatts' worth of wind farms in operation with a target to build this up to 1 GW by the end of 2008. It’s 2007.

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Investigation reveals almost 130,000 tonnes of carpet incinerated annually

Envirotec Magazine

Changing Markets, Zero Waste Europe and UKWIN call on the UK government to adopt legislation to increase carpet recycling rates. CRUK, which includes John Lewis as one of its members,[i] launched in 2008 with the aim of diverting carpet from landfill and recovering raw materials.[ii]. Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled.

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S&P Dow Jones debuts Paris-Aligned and Climate Transition indices

Business Green

There is a growing urgency in Europe and globally to identify solutions that address the negative consequences companies and institutions face due to climate change," said Reid Steadman, global head of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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How changes brought on by coronavirus could help tackle climate change

Business Green

Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that of the global financial crisis in 2008. There is a strong link between economic activity and global carbon dioxide emissions, due to the dominance of fossil fuel sources of energy. Andy Rain/EPA. Glen Peters/CICERO.

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Covid-19 will lead to further stranded assets in the EU

Business Green

With airlines looking at an annus horribilis in 2020, planes could follow coal plants as Europe's next stranded asset, writes Vlerick Business School's Professor David Veredas. That is the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 800,000 years. And, jsut as in 2008, conditionality should be attached to bailouts.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

Between 2008 and 2019, the average amount of meat eaten each day per person in the UK fell from just under 104g to a little more than 86g, according to the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. Broad awareness of the issues at stake is not limited to a small minority, but neither has it yet reached an overwhelming majority.