Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

The unprecedented spending programme that will be necessary to reboot economies as countries emerge from coronavirus lockdown, has put the conditions attached to bailout funds and economic stimulus under the microscope and made lawmakers in Europe and the UK the target of vocal calls for them to rethink prevailing approaches to public finance.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

Backed by high and low carbon businesses alike, the Energy Transitions Commission has outlined seven key priorities for delivering credible, net zero-focused recovery packages. The support for green recovery packages has been vocal, wide-ranging, and not a little surprising.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic. It's worth looking back to the last global crisis in 2008, after which fossil fuel generation took a substantial hit.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

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. As a rule of thumb, Western Europe is better prepared for decarbonisation than Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, however, that is not the case.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

As a result, studies suggest CO2 in Europe has dropped 58 per cent since lockdowns began several weeks ago, while the International Energy Agency (IEA) is projecting 7.5 per cent annual reduction in the USA's energy-related carbon emissions during 2020.

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GreenBiz

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. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

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. Reductions are also being observed in Italy , and are likely to spread across Europe as lockdowns become more widespread. The emission-intensive airline industry, covering 2.6

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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. billion.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

But, rather than continuing to inflict damage to the planet, what if the millions of tonnes of plastics used to make bottles, food packaging, carrier bags, clothes, carpets, and much more every year, were actually made from a sustainable, plant-based, fossil fuel-free polymer that was both fully recyclable and degradable?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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. Eating sustainably needn't cost a fortune and lots of people making small changes to their diet can make a big difference for our planet.".

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

The Marshall Plan channeled billions of US dollars into essential infrastructure projects right across Europe, laying the foundations for decades of economic progress, not to mention peace and prosperity where they had previously been violence and atrocity. He then announced new funding worth 0.2

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

Rescue packages for the aviation industry offered without green conditions attached have become a major battleground between environmentalists and governments over the past few weeks, and the report notes that such bailouts threaten to undermine France and the UK's potential postions as green stimulus role models that others could emulate.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Scores of leading global corporates across Europe and America are calling for it , as well as investors managing trillions of dollars of assets. Encouragingly, word from the EU Commission suggests it remains steadfast in its 2050 net zero ambitions and that combatting climate change should feature strongly in economic recovery packages.

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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 10, 2021

Boris Johnson has enjoyed further electoral success with an economic strategy predicated on 'levelling up' and the net zero transition, but huge questions remain about his ability to deliver on those promises in light of the paucity of the government's green recovery package to date.

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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.

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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.

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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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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Europe is forecast to see a reduction of around 390m tonnes. Even assuming a bounceback once the lockdown is lifted, the planet is expected to see its first fall in global emissions since the 2008-9 financial crisis.” There are worries that clean energy investments appear less desirable.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

But Europe's largest economy may be on the cusp of a renewed period of change, thanks to the increasing maturity of renewables and the emergence of the Green Party as a major political force. These days, Germany's government is not only lagging its peers in Western Europe, it's also falling behind its industrial stalwarts.

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If they were coming from Europe and had a superior system that would actually free us from the pollution and the toxicity that would be welcome,” said Jill Hunkler, executive director of Ohio Valley Allies, a grassroots advocacy group fighting for environmental justice in northern Appalachia. Geological Survey report noted.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

In modern Europe, coins were introduced about 1000 years before banking, but in ancient Babylon, banking was introduced about 1000 years before coins. These bills were carried around Europe on horseback, and were accepted by sellers everywhere. In medieval Europe, goldsmiths built strongrooms to keep their gold safe.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

At the same time ministers and CEOs are stepping up calls to deliver explicitly green economic recovery packages, which can ensure the world learns the lessons from this health crisis and puts itself on track to meet its sustainable development goals. The SDGs in general, and SDG17 in particular, are suddenly back in vogue.

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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. Imagine if, by late 2021, much of Europe and the US has been vaccinated against the disease," he wrote. Or, most likely, a mix of both. Those people who haven't lost their jobs have amassed savings.

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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. Let's not repeat the mistake Europe made with solar cells and panels, Starace warned.

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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. Trump said falling crude prices benefited US consumers filling up their cars, but noted that it also "hurts a great industry, and a very powerful industry".

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