GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"If we're going to make sure that we're using more recycled content, if we're going to ensure that we're going to reduce carbon emissions, then we need to be tracking that. CLP's private-equity Closed Loop Leadership Fund , launched in 2018, counts Nestlé, Microsoft and Nuveen among its investors.). "I

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

That is the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 800,000 years. 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.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

With governments around the world working feverishly on economic recovery packages in an attempt to cushion the impact of the worst recession in decades, the UN's annual report on the global renewable energy market could not have come at a more opportune. per cent in 2018 and 5.9 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. per cent in 2009.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The business sustainability movement is picking up pace, e.g., in 2018, 88% of consumers desired green businesses. In 2018, over half of the global asset owners were currently implementing or evaluating sustainability in their investment strategy. Is our packaging also safe for people and the planet? Keep your goals specific.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action - from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" - are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2018, Germany appointed a commission drawn from industry, government and civil society to find a broadly acceptable way to close the nation’s substantial coal mining and power plant infrastructure. There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The report also stressed that current COVID-19 recovery packages are not in line with the goals Paris Agreement and urges world leaders to commit to a green recovery that will reduce inequality by creating new green jobs, safeguarding health, and building healthier populations.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 12, 2020

But the metrics that fleet managers care about — total cost of ownership — are becoming more competitive for these lower-carbon vehicles, the GNA report found. Thus efficiency tools — such as aerodynamic packages, anti-idling and driver education — are still important. million students in the U.S.,

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2018, two years after announcing the financing deal, UKPF revealed it had become a supplier to KFC in Kazakhstan. Suppliers tend to be large, vertically integrated operations, often complete with facilities for manufacturing chicken feed and processing and packaging chicken meat. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 87

Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. per cent from 2018, UKERC said. million units installed in British homes, a rise of 1.8 Electrical systems could provide a significant share of future heat supply," it states.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The challenge that the world of consumer goods really faces is decoupling growth from resource consumption - in other words, disrupting traditional business models to create new products and ways of getting them to market that consume less energy, water and packaging. Take IKEA for example, famous for Swedish meatballs.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

At present, too many products - from electronic appliances, to packaging, and clothing - are thrown away far too quickly, and are not designed with reuse, remanufacturing, or recycling in mind. The UK's current approach is unsustainable," the report states.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The National Geographic Society found that 91% of the world’s plastic was not recycled in 2018. In 2018, the recycling rate for plastic bottles was just over 29%. In 2018 the recycling rate for aluminum cans was 49.8%. This stamina allows companies to package and transport more product using less material.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Advocates of this approach reckon it would help catalyse investments in clean technologies and ensure investors are more cognisant of the complex and escalating risks associated with high carbon assets. An alternative approach could include setting minimum mandatory climate standards for ESG products, requiring banks to adopt 1.5C

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Tip #3: Choose materials that do not include toxins : Even materials that are biodegradable and recyclable can negatively impact the environment. Tip #4: Purchase products and materials that are recyclable : In 2018 over 292 million tons of waste was produced in the US, and only 69 million tons of that was recycled.

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Sustainability Biodegradable Recycling Recycling 147

Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Pollution Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 45

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Here, BusinessGreen sums up some of its key findings and recommendations for how all actors can work together to deliver a greener, more equitable, lower carbon future. limit but could be bent back down by the end of the century through the use of negative emissions projects, the report contends. is now lower than it was in 2018.

Climate change 36

Climate change Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Policy 36

Business Green

APRIL 3, 2020

They have high yields and short cultivation times, plus the potential to sequester carbon dioxide in the process. While algae have received attention for their potential to displace fossil fuels as an energy source, their applications in packaging and other products are beginning to gain momentum.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. “This could happen to my son any day of the week,” she said.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Now such an opportunity presented itself when countries rolled out stimulus packages to help kick-start economies as we faced the COVID-19 pandemic. Locking us into new oil & gas for decades means we'll have to rely on expensive, unproven and as yet unscalable carbon dioxide removal technologies.?While

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there.

Sustainability 82

Sustainability Transportation Carbon-negative Policy 82

Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

Meanwhile, at the national level, the Biden administration has set a bold goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Further, the poor appearance and fit of the turbines with the landscape were cited as negative. For example, New York law requires a 60 percent reduction in emissions in just eight years.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 For example, the majority of natural gas-powered trucks operating in California today are running on renewable natural gas that can have a negative carbon intensity.

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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. Media Authorship. Mark Costa, Courtesy of Eastman. Close Authorship. jobs, as much as $2.2

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The approach focuses on topsoil regeneration to increase biodiversity, improve water recycling, and support carbon capture by biosequestration. In November 2018, the youth-led organization Sunrise Movement , with the support of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, demanded a new Green Deal. 8: Generation Green New Deal.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 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. This idea of circularity isn't new to us," he added. "In Most of the others - SPI Nos.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

A UK government agency has provided billions of pounds worth of financial support to the high-carbon aviation sector since the Paris climate agreement was adopted in 2015, DeSmog analysis shows. billion loan to the Qatari government for the purchase of jets from BAE in 2018-19. The largest military-aerospace project was a £2.3

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. A 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report showed warming beyond 1.5 O boy, was I triggered. The problem is absolutely immense.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Two months later, Barack Obama was elected president and began work on the stimulus package, passed in February 2009, that reinjected life into the faltering clean energy sector. As Scott said in 2018, when something “smells fishy, it probably is, and you should dig deeper.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

work toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in all areas of the nation’s economy by midcentury, reaching net negative emissions beyond that. An analysis of the plan’s impacts from think tank Energy Innovation quantified its health and climate benefits at nearly $8 trillion by 2050 in 2018 dollars.

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