Business Green
MAY 25, 2022
The report calculates that investments of $759bn through to 2050 could result in global demand for petrochemicals being met with almost no associated carbon emissions. But under a net zero emissions scenario, refineries start to be retired from 2030 as demand for transport fuels peaks as drivers switch to electric vehicles.
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 19, 2019
On top of that, California’s recurring drought problems, agricultural demand for irrigation, and the risks of fertilizer runoff make the state a target-rich environment to deploy our place-based approach to water innovation. California’s recycling rate is down from a high of 50% in 2014 to 44% in 2016. California goals.
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Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 18, 2023
In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, causing severe biodiversity loss and leading to changes in ecosystem services.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2020
Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Digital networks and online platforms scaled to meet spiking demand during social distancing. Yet advancing circularity also helps to meet climate targets.
Grist
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Her recent book Back To Earth pairs fun astronaut trivia (you can take a “shower” by “gently squeezing hot water out of the straw of a drink bag directly onto your body and watching it coat you like a second skin”) with facts about pressing environmental issues — climate change, microplastics, and the insect apocalypse. “I NASA / Joel Kowsky.
Business Green
APRIL 18, 2022
In 2016, for the first time, more bicycles than cars made journeys around the city over the course of that year. And even if there's nothing damaging released from an electric car's exhaust pipe, the wear of car brakes and tyres still creates toxic dust and microplastic pollution.
Business Green
AUGUST 28, 2020
Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Digital networks and online platforms scaled to meet spiking demand during social distancing. Yet advancing circularity also helps to meet climate targets.
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