Charged

JUNE 24, 2020

The original technology was introduced in 2014 on the first-generation Kia Soul EV. EV battery cells can be packaged more tightly, as water-cooling channels take up less space than air-cooling channels, increasing battery density by up to 35 percent. In severe cold weather, the Kona Electric delivered 91 percent of its nominal range.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

Following the introduction of the charge, the average person in England now buys around three single-use carrier bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with using around 140 mainly free bags in 2014. billion bags used in 2014 before the charge was introduced. Defra said the results represented a huge drop on the 7.6

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Packaging company confirmed today that it will set science-based emissions reduction targets for activities across its value chain as it works to reach net zero operations by 2030. Collarboration with stakeholders across the value chain will also be central to achieving its sustainability vision, it added.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Last year, the company announced two major initiatives: Carbon renewal technology , or CRT, which breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Most of the others — SPI Nos.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It's like an Amazon pick-up package service," explains Carbfix's head of research and innovation Kari Helgason. Under the mooted plans, the operation would start with one ship capable of transporting 11,000 tonnes of compressed CO2 on each trip, rising up to six ships with greater CO2 storage space by 2030.

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Building Energy Monitoring Packaging Pollution Energy Monitor 39

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Shell plans to build, own and operate this Wallerawang 9 battery, which will sit within the Wallerawang power station site, where two 500MW coal-fired generating units were decommissioned in 2014. The greater Lithgow region has contributed to powering NSW for nearly 70 years,” said Greenspot CEO Brett Hawkins.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In the period between 2014 and 2016 China canceled many coal plants and installed scrubbers on 80 percent of existing plants to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other hazardous emissions. A BloombergNEF report found that of the 385,000 electric buses in the world in 2017, almost all of them were in China.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Climate change 94

Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Working with BASF, Aramark, Hampton Farms and Missouri Organic Recycling to be the first professional sports venue to sell pre-packaged peanuts in compostable bags beginning in 2017. In partnership with Evergy, the installation in 2014 of 308 solar panels to generate about 29,000 kilowatts of electricity a year at Truman Sports Complex.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets.

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Nuclear Power Climate change Technology Government 246

GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

The organization is working directly with manufacturers, including scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher, to set benchmarks on products and packaging design. The ratings represent data from the GreenScreen safer chemicals benchmark as well as details on packaging and product handling at the end of life.

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Plastics Sustainability Waste Waste 419

Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

As the government mulls potential support packages for embattled UK airlines in the face of the escalating coronavirus crisis, growing calls have come for any bailout or public ownership stakes to be contingent on clearer climate targets for the aviation sector. It also alleges that UK airlines pay relatively low rates of tax.

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Aviation Packaging Climate change Government 101

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2020

” Amcor is an Australian-based company that makes packaging materials for foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals, personal care and other products; it has several facilities in PG&E’s Northern California service territory. The 15-year agreement calls for Nexus Renewables U.S.,

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

investment in the project to help safeguard the marine environment through a new environmental monitoring and mitigation package (EMMP). The Crown Estate, which manages the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, has announced a £1.2m

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Packaging Biodiversity 36

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

If we go back in time to 2014, the No. 1 answer by far was, “I read the ingredients/detail on the package.” Fast forward to 2020 and while “I read the package” is still the No. Don’t just put the third-party certification logo on your package, tell the story of why it’s on your package.

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Packaging Climate change Sustainability Organic 28

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The attorney general’s office filed its coordination petition, backed by the municipal entities, in November, noting that coordinating the lawsuits into one package would avoid any conflicting rulings in the various cases. Credit: Cpl. Sarah Wolff/U.S.

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Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Climate change Law 101

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Rex Murphy speaking at the 2014 UBCM conference. Canadian conservative newspaper columnist Rex Murphy, who has referred to global warming as an “anti-Western ideology,” is also on board, with a course “on poetry and Paradise Lost.” Credit: Province of BC / Flickr CC Peterson Academy did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. By empowering women and girls globally, Project Drawdown calculated that we could avoid 120 billion tons of emissions by 2050.

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Startups Carbon-negative Plastics Biodegradable 541

Business Green

JULY 10, 2022

Panasonic's first town, Fujisawa, is some 50 kilometres south of Tokyo and has been fully operational since 2014. We are packaging them together, based on the needs of each of the areas," he explained. "We It is home to 600 households, with each residential home boasting solar panels on the roof and a plethora of smart technologies.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 68

Greentown Labs

MARCH 18, 2021

Saint-Gobain became a partner in 2014, and has been integral to Greentown and our members ever since. Unilever becomes Greentown’s first major consumer packaged goods (CPG) partner. Shell also helps Greentown build the first version of its safety program. DSM leads Greentown member Voxel8 ’s Series B funding round.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

One of Hobson’s convictions is that American’s must be "color brave," a phrase she coined in her 2014 TED Talk. Like many consumer products companies, the HP sustainability team is also focused on reducing the impact of its packaging — its goal is to eliminate 75 percent of single-use plastics by 2025. .

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Post Office will deliver 15 billion pieces of mail and 900 million packages between Thanksgiving and the New Year. Plastic is also used in toys and home goods as well as packaging and only 9 percent of the billions of pounds of plastic that are produced every year get recycled.

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Fashion Plastics Waste Waste 52

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Søren Lassen, head of global offshore wind research at Wood Mackenzie, told GTM the package of measures unveiled by the U.K. Oil services giant Wood, formerly the Wood Group, derived 96 percent of its revenue from the oil sector in 2014. government showed that driving down cost was not the primary objective. In the U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2021

According to the SEC order, Fairmount made the “materially false and misleading statements in connection with securities offerings in 2014 and 2016, in periodic and current reports filed with the SEC, in presentations to investors and research analysts, and on the company’s website.”. The company agreed to pay a $17 million penalty.

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Natural gas Innovation Technology Packaging 97

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

million in 2014 from Shunfeng International Clean Energy, which also invested in solar company Suntech and other cleantech ventures. In time, the company worked with more established partners to wrap the storage system and installation into a bankable package. From humble roots. It raised $12.5

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Energy Energy Batteries Investment 130

The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Where Ecobee’s original product has matured into a fine vintage , Google (which bought Nest in 2014) has let the excellent Nest Learning Thermostat wither on the vine, ostensibly replacing it with a watered-down version with half the smarts and none of the visual appeal. Where Ecobee will land remains to be seen.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 117

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Following the 2008 financial crisis, countries around the world put together stimulus packages with varying emphasis on clean energy. The overnight capital cost of utility-scale photovoltaic systems halved between 2008 and 2014. Battery costs for electric vehicles decreased by over two-thirds in that same time period.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

Since the 5p bag charge was introduced five years ago - spearheaded by the Lib Dems in the coalition government - the average person in England now buys just four bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with 140 in 2014, government statistics show.

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Retail Plastics Government Waste 80

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

First, it's important to look at what the fiscal year 2021 spending package passed by Congress in December did for international climate funding. Obama pledged $3 billion to the GCF in 2014 but only delivered $1 billion before leaving office, meaning the United States still owes $2 billion from that original pledge.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Resilience Biodiversity 378

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

TAN meanwhile is trying to bring a separate judicial review against the DfT for refusing to review its 2014 National Policy Statement for National Networks, which sets the rules by which road schemes should be designed and evaluated. Together, these make a balanced package that is entirely consistent with net zero.”.

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Government Climate change Transportation Construction 80

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Fleets are often the workhorses that toil behind the scenes: the garbage trucks that pick up your trash before dawn; the long-haul semi-trucks that move goods from the port; the bucket trucks that utilities use to fix power lines and keep your lights on; the delivery vans that drop off your packages and help you stay safe inside your homes.

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Sustainability Scooters Electric vehicle Natural gas 545

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Green energy industry welcomes 'really good' package for Contracts for Difference Round 4 that promises to accelerate roll out of offshore wind, solar, and onshore wind projects. Clean energy delivered 43.1

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

But by collecting data on how they can align the incentives of homebuilders, home buyers and utilities, projects like these are important steps toward expanding these techniques across the country, said Ram Narayanamurthy, technical lead for EPRI’s Advanced Energy Communities program, which has done dozens of these projects since 2014.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The report highlights the landfill tax has been successful in driving a significant drop in landfill waste in the UK, with the introduction of the levy promting a 65 per cent decrease of total waste in landfill sites between 1998 to 2014.

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Government Waste Waste Plastics 70

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A study by McKinsey & Company uncovered that in 2014 the average person owned 60% more clothes than the average consumer in 2000, but only wore them for half as long. In the constant search for ‘newness’, wardrobes are constantly updated and changed, with clothing becoming as disposable as the packaging it arrives in.

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Fashion Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 304

Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

This creates serious risks for both packaging businesses and investors, as highlighted in a recent report from Planet Tracker , which detailed the rising probability of stranded assets in the sector. A recent study also estimated that by 2030 the plastic industry could be responsible for 1.34

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Plastics Pollution Government Waste 77

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

At Mondi, sustainability is at the heart of what we do, creating packaging and paper that is sustainable by design. In addition our science-based targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative in 2019; and in 2020 we reduced our total Greenhouse Gas emissions by 24 per cent against a 2014 baseline.

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