GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

There’s no doubt about it — we are in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. By nature, cosmetics packaging is small and intricate, made up of many parts that are difficult to clean after use, resulting in the majority of this packaging going directly into landfills. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2020

This week, just days after a group of leading civil society and environment groups called on the government to fold "stringent conditions" into any forthcoming rescue package for aviation, the government today unveiled a multi-million bailout for buses today that makes no mention of climate.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Setting out its draft recovery plan back in May, the EU Commission promised to place its Green Deal programme and 2050 net zero ambition at the heart of its €750bn investment package to get the economy moving again. Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

Though the European Commission is re-drafting the Multiannual Financial Framework - aka the EU budget - the building blocks of the Green Deal look set to remain, although they will likely be re-packaged and mixed with the forthcoming Recovery Fund. And, jsut as in 2008, conditionality should be attached to bailouts.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

The group has echoed many other green campaigners and businesses in demanding that stimulus investments funnelled to polluting industries are conditional on companies' alignment with environmental priorities and that all state aid, loans, and other support mechanisms come with strict conditions attached.

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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.

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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. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. Company profile.

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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. We have now lost a major opportunity to change one of the economy's more environmentally backward sectors.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

For context, I worked with Bank of America in 2008 on the first commitment of this kind — it was for $25 billion. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019. At DuPont, a shareholder resolution asking the company to track plastic pollution better got 81% support.

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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. Broad awareness of the issues at stake is not limited to a small minority, but neither has it yet reached an overwhelming majority.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

Analysis of the shipping impact of major US retailers finds 15 companies are responsible for as much sulphur oxide, nitrous oxide, and particulate matter pollution as tens of millions of vehicles. International shipping is big business. The report calculates that Walmart alone was responsible for 3.7

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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 everywhere, and the problems they pose are well documented.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2020

Another way of recycling the revenues from a carbon tax would be to give financial compensation directly to households, he added, highlighting how the Canadian state of British Columbia, which implemented a carbon tax in 2008, has provided a "text-book" example of how such carbon rebates or dividends could work in practice.

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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. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

Moreover, only a fifth of the bailouts handed to fossil fuel industries is conditional on green requirements, such as setting climate targets or implementing pollution reduction plans. Meanwhile, economies that had already begun a transition to clean energy are now using stimulus and recovery packages to make this happen even faster.".

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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 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 plots post-Covid air pollution crackdown. However, it does mark an improvement on original proposals to axe NEV subsidies altogether this year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Plastic is polluting oceans, killing wildlife, and harming entire ecosystems. we should think 'does this need to be packaged at all?'. We are running out of time to combat the mounting wave of plastic pollution, but there is hope. We are running out of time to combat the mounting wave of plastic pollution, but there is hope.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

The decrease in congestion is critical, as idling vehicles emit more pollution. Even NASA satellites from outer-space show the significant reductions in air pollutants, which supports EcoWatch ‘s observation that the novel coronavirus pandemic has delivered the silver lining of decreased air pollution. As for the U.S.,

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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. The entire global economy is made inherently unstable by its reliance on fuels where the price can be manipulated and the polluting externalities are not accounted for.

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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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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. But more chemicals generally means more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

California’s system for capping and trading greenhouse gases is aimed at a global crisis, climate change, but the argument over the scheme centers on a local issue: dirty air spreading within neighborhoods surrounding polluting factories and power plants. On one side are advocates for climate action. There was no evidence of cause and effect.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

The White House's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is offering remarkably generous subsidies to green industries that choose to locate in the US, and now Brussels looks set to respond with a similarly ambitious (and equally WTO rule-bending) package of its own. In 15 years I cannot a recall a time when business groups were more worried.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It was the year the world's largest polluter pledged to fully decarbonise its economy within 40 years. The year the world's largest market announced plans for the largest green stimulus package in history. A year of tragedy and chaos has also seen a dramatic leap forward for the global green economy. Or, most likely, a mix of both.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

One possible future is a repeat of what China did in response to the global financial crisis in 2008 - a stimulus package targeted at highly polluting smokestack industries, resulting in coal consumption and emissions surging far above pre-crisis levels," Myllyvirta told BusinessGreen. "On

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

Within hours the whims of the American Electoral College system empowered autocrats, nationalists and polluters everywhere. The implication contained in all green recovery programmes is that some clean industries deserve stimulus and other polluting sectors should only receive government support if they promise to change their ways.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. So when Craig Tribolet joined APRIL in 2013, he had a huge job on his hands.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 28, 2020

More battery peaker plants are discharging during times of extreme demand, without unleashing local pollutants into their surroundings, like the gas burning alternatives do. In practical terms, this means more battery capacity is storing solar production that might otherwise go to waste. Biden's pick of former Michigan Gov.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

UN Secretary General António Guterres has already declared that the world has "a responsibility to recover better" than it did after the financial crisis in 2008, arguing the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change should provide the framework for the stimulus packages that are already taking shape. "We

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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. Dutch coal power output plunged by more than a third last year, according to official statistics that show the country's reliance on the most polluting power source is falling fast.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In 2008 the DNC adopted a progressive policy platform that included climate action. After a green stimulus package was passed in 2009, Democrats backpedaled. The DNC policy platform in 2012 was less environmentally focused then the one they adopted in 2008.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

To add insult to injury, Trump is using the pandemic to help polluters. A recent executive order allows polluting projects like power plants and pipelines to forego proper environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act. At the same time the U.S.

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