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Food and drink giants urge UK government to strengthen deforestation laws

Business Green

It would then be illegal to use products that fail to comply with laws to protect nature in those origin nations. million square kilometres of forest were lost between 1990 and 2016, an area bigger than South Africa. World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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Amazon Clicks Buy on 615 Megawatts of Large-Scale Solar

GreenTechMedia

but a state law passed last year that requires 100 percent clean energy by 2045 should further boost that trend by encouraging development there. since 2016, when it was the largest annual purchaser, according to the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance. In 2016, companies acquired 1.54 The largest additions will come in the U.S.,

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Chitty-chitty-pop-bang! Are noise cameras ready to tackle UK traffic?

Envirotec Magazine

While modern cars may be all too easily modified to produce ear-splitting bangs, pops and other eruptions, a growing hazard for the modern city dweller (at least if they value being able to sleep or concentrate on a task), the technology to pinpoint such vehicles, for law enforcement purposes, is not-so-trivial.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

Industries getting particular focus when it comes to VOC management in China include electronics, packaging and printing, pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, chemical, industrial coating, oil storage and transportation. This enshrined into law China’s first air emissions management plan and formalized an approach to regional collaboration.

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Michigan Utility DTE Ordered to Seek Out More Renewables

GreenTechMedia

The order caps a lengthy and contentious battle over DTE’s long-range IRP, which it and Consumers were required to develop for the first time under Michigan’s comprehensive 2016 energy law. A PSC administrative law judge ruled in December that this was a violation of the 2016 state law that set up the IRP process.

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'The world is moving on': Coca-Cola's Therese Noorlander on plastic, packaging, and youth activism

Business Green

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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Germany Set to Start Coal Phaseout Tenders Amid Legal Challenge

GreenTechMedia

There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws. State Aid approval of a previously completed round of German coal closures, which paid lignite plants to go on standby, was approved in 2016. These will be held sporadically through 2024.

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