Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

The unprecedented quantity of Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that has been greenlighted so far this year – across Europe – no doubt signals a new level of environmental awareness on a governmental, rather than merely social level. Green Deal legislation has proven most adaptable to the times.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00. In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion. Christine Rile….

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:00. However you look at it, 2020 is a turning point for fleets. . Progressive cities, many in Europe, are building zones in downtown centers that are banning fossil-fuel vehicles and incentivizing zero-emission models. The entire company (including transportation) will be net-zero carbon by 2040.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Both Evian and Volvic also set to become 'carbon neutral' in the UK in 2020, claims the French food and drinks giant. Hugh Jones, managing director for advisory at the Carbon Trust, said Danone's efforts demonstrated "real commitment to achieving significant carbon reductions".

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Clean energy generated a historic 40 per cent of the bloc's electricity in the first half of 2020, according to green think tank Ember. Across the six month period, wind and solar contributed to 22 per cent of Europe's electricity generation.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

While many are hearing the need to align immediate spending packages with longer-term goals, the idea of a green recovery is being met with political opposition from many quarters. Investing in clean industrial innovation can help to renew Europe's industrial base and secure its future competitiveness. per cent, with an expected 8.7

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2020

HelloFresh, the global provider of meal kits, has announced it will offset 100 per cent of its direct carbon emissions from its internal operations and offices, as well as all emissions from delivery to customers and corporate travel, as part of its long-term carbon reduction strategy.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

per cent in 2020, having remained virtually unchanged for the previous five years. In the food industry, there are increasingly close ties being built between food manufacturers, packaging companies, start-ups and academia. This includes research into enhanced package coatings with lower carbon footprint and improved recyclability.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Cambridge University Endowment Fund (CUEF) - which at £3.5bn is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe - plans to ramp up investments in renewable energy as it switches off the lights on fossil fuels, Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope announced in his annual address yesterday. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

On July 14, the European Union (EU) announced a sweeping package of climate proposals that will help the continent cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030, from a 1990 baseline. Our current fossil fuel economy has reached its limit,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference. “We CC BY-ND 2.0.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

Raft of energy efficiency, green transport, and hydrogen programmes put at heart of €130bn stimulus package, as Bank of England confirms financial support for airlines. The German government has unveiled plans for a massive €130bn stimulus package that features at least €40bn climate-related spending.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2020

BMW, Ford, other automakers rev up carbon commitments Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 07/29/2020 – 02:00 The world’s biggest automakers are ramping up their carbon commitments even as they struggle to build back in the wake of the pandemic. Are the automakers doing enough when it comes to carbon emissions?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Initially, greenwashing was relegated to a small number of corporate claims - that a product or packaging claimed by the company to be compostable or recyclable wasn't, for example. Now more definitions of greenwashing are cropping up, in Europe in particular. There's a reason why carbon is all around.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The tech giant is increasingly confident it can, and this week unveiled a sweeping package of new investments and initiatives designed to slash emissions across its sprawling global supply chain. We're looking forward to continued partnership with our suppliers to make Apple's supply chain carbon neutral by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

At Dow, as a leading materials company, we know we have a responsibility to take this challenge seriously and take urgent action - to become carbon neutral and stop plastic going to waste. To achieve our carbon reduction targets, incremental improvements are no longer enough. A radical redesign.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

million on lobbying in 2019 and 2020, according to the latest available data on their lobbying spending from official EU data. Others that have been active in pushing for the EU to continue to allow the use of certain controversial chemicals, include CropLife Europe and The Glyphosate Renewal Group.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Spain has delivered the lowest prices ever seen for onshore wind in Europe," said Giles Dickson, CEO at trade body WindEurope, highlighting bids from onshore wind developers that ranged from €20/MWh to €28.89/MWh. Overall, Tesla earned $721m in 2020 and chalked up its sixth straight quarterly net profit following years of losses.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

With millions of workers forced to stay at home and many non-essential shops closed during successive lockdowns across Europe over the past year, e-commerce has been a one of the big winners of the pandemic. Across Europe, it finds that e-commerce deliveries generate 0.5 per cent of total traffic in London.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel. Company profile.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

According to leaked documents seen by Euractiv , work on the climate policies that underpin the Commission's flagship Green Deal programme are to remain a top priority, further fuelling hopes the bloc can deliver on early pledges from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and key member states to deliver a green recovery package.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

With airlines looking at an annus horribilis in 2020, planes could follow coal plants as Europe's next stranded asset, writes Vlerick Business School's Professor David Veredas. That is the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 800,000 years. Unfortunately, however, that is not the case.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

From Australia to Canada, the United States to China, across Europe and the Amazon, wildfires are wreaking havoc on the environment, wildlife, human health and infrastructure," the foreword of the report said. Packaging giant Tetra Pak this week announced that it has co-invested over €11.5m

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With Our Responsible Journey, Samsonite strives to lead the lifestyle bag and travel luggage industry across key sustainability indicators, including the use of recycled materials in its products and packaging and achieving carbon neutrality across its owned and operated facilities.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Founded in 2000, Ecocem has four manufacturing facilities across Western Europe, selling into several major international markets including France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, the UK, etc. Decarbonizing packaging Since the 1950s, the world has produced over 9 billion tons (bt) of plastics.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

Business group representing some of Europe's biggest brands argues that policies and market incentives are urgently needed to drive demand for green steel, cement, and chemicals. The EU is one of the biggest single markets in the world and a world leader in clean and efficient technology," said Eliot Whittington, CLG Europe's director.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Two of Europe's top engineering giants have this week moved forward with plans to accelerate the roll out hydrogen fuelled trains, with projects advancing in both Germany and Italy. Only then can DB be climate-neutral by 2050. South Korea signals plan to strengthen 2030 carbon targets. within our administration's term?for

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The vice-president of sustainability at CCEP, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world, spills the details on how the firm intends to achieve net zero packaging, manufacturing, shipping, and ingredients within 20 years. Europe is kind of the epicentre of what's going on climate change," he says. "If

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The envisioned mandated share of jet biofuels would then ratchet up over time, in order to increase demand for low emission fuels and gradually reduce the carbon footprint of flights, ahead of the hoped-for emergence of zero emission technologies for short haul flights.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This might be the quickest and cheapest way for you to become carbon neutral, without retrofitting your vessels at all. Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Rotterdam refineries are among the biggest polluters in Europe Rotterdam has the dubious title of being the absolute leader in the throughput and storage of crude oil in northwest Europe. The alternative to fossil feedstock, is to replace it with hydrogen and carbon in other sustainable forms. > A source of carbon.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. “I felt like it happened under my watch.”

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

So far, air traffic here in Denmark has primarily only been able to offer carbon offset arrangements in relation to emissions. Sustainable Aviation Fuel is crucial to the Aviation Industry reaching net zero emissions, alongside new technologies and carbon offsetting. Fears grow over degradation of Amazon carbon sink.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

There are reasons to be optimistic about zero-carbon air travel, but governments must carefully consider the lasting impacts of today's decisions, argues Cavin Wilson of Frontier Economics. The skies above Europe are noticeably empty. But even the 2020 ambition now looks vulnerable.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The leadership and strengthened NDCs delivered at the Summit mean we are now on track to have more than 50 NDCs officially submitted by the end of 2020, boosting momentum and forging a pathway forward for others to follow in the months ahead," the UK government said. Net zero is increasingly the new normal and the trend feels irreversible.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

Available for customers in the United States, Canada and Europe, Aware has an initial focus in three categories of "everyday essentials": apparel; household goods; and beauty products. Yet another question is Aware's carbon-neutral claim, which relies on "high-quality carbon credits", which have proven to be a minefield for some companies.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. But not all offsets are created equal.

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