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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards. Multiple hazards assessment standards are available in increasingly usable formats to help companies identify problematic chemicals. for an answer.".

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Front And Centered

APRIL 14, 2020

This bill would have required that all transportation packages be evaluated through community-centered criteria that embraces equity, environmental justice, accessibility, safety, health, economic vitality, and other key values. Make Transportation Investments Equitable (HB 2688/SB 6399).

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN, however, argues that ministers had a legal duty under the Climate Change Act 2008’s statutory targets and the Paris Agreement to consider the strategy’s full impact on the environment and could not leave that assessment to the planning stage of individual road projects. The strategy doesn’t mention RIS2.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Investing in green infrastructure projects should also help build a more resilient and nature-friendly European economy for the long-term following the havoc wrought by the pandemic, while delivering huge benefits for public health, air quality, enhanced energy independence, and food safety, the report contends.

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Michael Grossman

APRIL 27, 2020

The client knew COVID-19 was going to cause a dramatic downturn in sales (especially on higher-end products) based on their experience during the 2008 banking meltdown. Stock images or old B-roll of nurses in hospital gowns, grocery store clerks, and package delivery crews, and a soft fade to the brand name and logo as the music fades.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

The five previous biggest falls in emissions occurred during World War Two, the global recession in 1991-92, the early 1980s energy crisis, the Spanish flu pandemic shortly after the First World War, and the 2008 financial crash, according to the analysis.

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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. Company profile.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Kering is looking to solutions such as isotope tracking, genetic mapping and laser markings as a means of verifying that materials meet health and sourcing requirements, Regent says.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The rhetoric has been hugely welcome and has contrasted positively with the months and years following the financial crash of 2008, during which proposals for green stimulus packages struggled to secure meaningful traction and a wave of new fossil fuel investment locked in another decade of rising global emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

As such, he ruled the government had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act 2008 (CCA) and ordered Ministers to update the plan and present it to Parliament by April 2023. 14 of the CCA 2008.". In my judgment it ought to have done so in order to comply with the language and statutory purposes of s.14

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2020

SUVs, which are less fuel efficient than other cars due to heavy builds and large engines, accounted for 38 per cent of new cars sold in Europe in 2019, up from almost a third the year prior and from just seven per cent in 2008. That way carmakers will bring the zero-emissions cars they have developed to the forecourt quicker.".

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns. There is also much more processing and packaging involved. Policymaking about the region should take account of its ocean geography and identity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns. There is also much more processing and packaging involved. Policymaking about the region should take account of its ocean geography and identity.

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Business Green

JUNE 3, 2020

In 2008 the digital telecoms giant became one of the first companies in the world to adopt a science-based emissions reduction target in line with keeping temperature increases below 2C, which it achieved four years early in 2016. BT has long been a corporate leader on climate action.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

The upshot of the government's 2008 bailouts for the banking sector were that the banks stayed in good shape whilst the rest suffered years of austerity, impoverishing social care and our national health system," Evans said.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The inclusion of biodiversity is part of Textile Exchange’s Climate+ strategy, which focuses on urgent climate action and recognizes that soil health, water and biodiversity will play a key role in this transition. Global Compact member since 2008. They’ve been committed to sustainability for decades and a U.N.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards. Multiple hazards assessment standards are available in increasingly usable formats to help companies identify problematic chemicals. for an answer.”

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2020, the world produced an estimated 353 million tonnes of plastic waste , vast amounts of which have gone on to pollute landscapes, oceans, and even the air, causing detrimental impacts to our climate, ecosystems, and health. Plastics are now in our food, our drink, the air we breathe, and almost every product we buy.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Kering is looking to solutions such as isotope tracking, genetic mapping and laser markings as a means of verifying that materials meet health and sourcing requirements, Regent says.

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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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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A recent report by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) evaluates the worker-support costs of six different policy package combinations and the workers who receive them. The worker-support program requires $50 million after four years, replenished annually with “additional moneys from the fund if necessary” and no annual maximum.

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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 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

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

JUNE 19, 2020

Now the coronavirus crisis has ensured the decade will start with a sharp reduction in annual emissions, but the question as to whether emissions will now rebound or begin a sustained decline rests to a huge degree on the decisions governments make as they mobilise their imminent economic stimulus packages. Others need to follow their lead.

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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. This is for climate reasons, but also health, with NOx emissions linked to respiratory diseases.

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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. There are worries that clean energy investments appear less desirable.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Microplastics also accumulate over time in wildlife and humans and have been linked to a potential increase in human health risks, including cancer, diabetes and fertility problems. we should think 'does this need to be packaged at all?'. Coral is 20 times more likely to become diseased upon coming into contact with plastics.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The 'long 90s' of idealism, hedonism, and relative peace is on its death bed, where it will remain until the financial crash of 2008 administers the final rights. There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. Everyone is rightly worried about what comes next.

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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

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

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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