AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified. The toymaker seeks to cut normalized carbon emissions in half by 2028.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Speaking shortly after that call to BusinessGreen from his makeshift home office - aka his bedroom - Stark is, like many working in the green economy, continuing to wrestle with what coronavirus could mean for the climate fight, alongside the wider fears about public health and economic uncertainty that everyone shares.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

The report argues that its a trend that poses significant risks to health and the natural world, in particular in countries with weak environmental regulation, because it will reinforce a dangerous status quo that already sees investment "tilted towards brown" infrastructure. "As

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

The University of Oxford study, published today, assesses a host of potential Covid-19 recovery packages and concludes there is significant potential for a strong alignment between economic growth and accelerating the push towards net zero emissions if governments utilise the many green stimulus tools at their disposal.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Letter to the Prime Minister by government climate advisers adds further weight to cross-sector calls for coronavirus stimulus packages to eschew carbon-intensive practices in favour of low-carbon, climate-resilient industries and projects. Recovery means investing in new jobs, cleaner air and improved health.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Green businesses and investors with long memories will be painfully aware of how the fallout from the 2008 financial crash disrupted low carbon infrastructure projects and clean tech programmes for years to come. We still believe that over the next decade carbon prices will increase, first in Europe, and then across other regions.".

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

The move will be seen as something of a blow to hopes that governments would prioritise green stimulus measures in their coronavirus recovery packages. Milan has historically had some of the worst air pollution in Europe and studies have suggested that poor air quality may exacerbate the health impacts from covid-19. "We

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. Geological Survey report noted. To put it simply,” the report states.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Discarded face masks now threatening wildlife habitats Should climate change run unabated, future zoonotic disease outbreaks may become the norm, asserts Conservation International and Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Europe is forecast to see a reduction of around 390m tonnes.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

The Fundamentals of Circular Packaging (Workshop): An increase in consumer awareness, corporate engagement and regulatory action has led more companies to set ambitious goals to reduce and reimagine their use of plastics and packaging.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

But none of that has stopped President Trump and some of his allies doubling down on their short-termist, science-rejecting, overtly populist tactics, presumably in the hope they can scapegoat their way out of the escalating economic, health, and social crisis. Meanwhile, a fightback is gathering momentum.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The year the world's largest market announced plans for the largest green stimulus package in history. Throughout the rolling health and economic crises the green economy and its fellow travellers have been engaged in an admirable hunt for silver linings. The next pandemic could be worse still. They even managed to find a few.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

Indeed, the market for coal in Europe looks increasingly challenging, with coal generation falling 24 per cent last year, and only one new coal plant currently under construction across the entire bloc.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. He is certainly not the only pessimist (or realist?)

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Meanwhile, a group of Senate Democrats this week set out proposals for any airline bailout package to include measures to curb emissions from the industry. Tesla yesterday issued a statement confirming it has decided to temporarily suspend production at its factory in Fremont, California, from March 23. Impossible Foods raises $500m.

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