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Growth in UK plastic packaging recycling being shipped abroad, including to non-OECD countries

Envirotec Magazine

This also means that just short of 1 million tonnes of plastic has been sent to Turkey for recycling since 2017. This amounts to 155,000 tonnes sent to non-OECD countries, 15,000 of which was to European Union (EU) Member States Bulgaria and Romania, and the remaining sent to a combination of countries in non-EU Europe, Asia and Egypt.

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Transparency Watchdog Calls on EU to Strengthen its Lobbying Rules After DeSmog Investigation

DeSmogBlog

Campaigners have called on the EU to urgently reform its rules around lobbying transparency after DeSmog revealed that a US oil-linked advocacy group has been lobbying against major green reforms in Europe, without declaring its activities. Corporate Europe Observatory is now calling on the EU to make its lobbying register legally binding.

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Ford revs up efforts to deliver two million electric vehicles a year by 2026

Business Green

In doing so, the company said it would create thousands of new jobs and build a sustainable and ethical supply chain from "some of the most advanced and efficient auto factories in the world". Last year, the company achieved a 35 per cent reduction in its absolute manufacturing greenhouse gas footprint from 2017 levels.

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Unlocking smart meter data for research

Smart Energy International

All researchers must have Accredited Researcher status via the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and all applications to use SERL data must be scrutinised by an independent Data Governance Board that checks that the project is ethical and that the research is in the public interest, in line with the principles of SERL and its funders.

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Why Google products are getting an eco-focused upgrade

Business Green

And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus. We hope it'll help brands choose more ethical and sustainable options throughout their supply chain - and in turn, support the fight against the climate crisis.

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Leader of Ecocide Movement Aims to Criminalize Long-lasting Harm to the Environment 

DeSmogBlog

Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocid e in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins , to support the recognition and establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court at the Hague. JOUBERT All of us have a natural, innate ethical sense that it’s wrong to take life.

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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

In 2017, Mora and colleagues found that 30 percent of the world’s population was already exposed to potentially deadly heat for 20 days or more each year. Take the record-breaking temperatures that swept over Europe last summer, sending the thermostat soaring above 100 degrees F across the continent, resulting in more than 61,000 deaths.