Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The winners of the 2022 VIBES – Scottish Environment Business Awards are: Adapting Scotland Award – Highlands Rewilding Ltd, based in Drumnodrochit, aims to help rewild, re-people and upskill the Scottish Highlands. in Cupar, Fife, has used innovative greenkeeping practices to create a high-quality golf course, rich in biodiversity.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

More than 20 projects across England aimed at restoring nature, reducing flood risk, cutting carbon, and boosting biodiversity win support through Landscape Recovery Scheme fund. This is such good news A major boost for biodiversity, carbon storage, drought mitigation, reduced flooding, improved water quality… & jobs.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 7, 2021

The Copernicus Masters ”See Change, Change the World” challenge is now open for submissions and everyone can apply with their ideas for a chance to win a free data package worth €125,000, technical and business support, and an exciting trip to San Francisco for Planet’s Explore 2022 Conference.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The new package of guidance and reliefs is designed to help embed and improve corporate processes for measuring and disclosing those Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions which can be notoriously difficult to track. Biodiversity underpins all human activities, including business, and as such has substantial implications for market participants.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025. Responsible sourcing is a big focus , with the company aiming for 100 percent sustainably sourced tomatoes by 2025, 100 percent sustainable and traceable palm oil by 2022, and 100 percent cage-free eggs globally by 2025 (among other ingredients).

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Government should work quickly to publish its package of targets, using this extra time to ensure they are as strong as possible. Green groups have demanded that the Government use the targets delay to bring forward a stronger package of targets, capable of restoring the natural environment. Nature cannot wait.”.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Download the full report and data (clients) Highlights 💰 2023 investment: Funding in 2023 totaled $32bn, down 30% from 2022, although CAGR remains high since 2020 at 23%. CAGR since 2020 is 23%, but has slowed since the end of 2022 which was 32%. At the end of 2022 we counted 1,910 active climate tech startups since 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

Government intervention: identifying the problem In March 2022, the Government launched a policy paper to investigate the intricacies of the spiraling problem and identify actions needed to tackle the issue. The paper announced a series of initiatives to tackle the issue and safeguard the environment.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025. Planetary boundaries are nine environmental 'red lines' that researchers have warned will compromise life on Earth if crossed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The government has today unveiled its hotly-anticipated suite of legally-binding environmental targets for England, confirming a sweeping package of goals to reverse species loss, increase tree cover, reduce waste, and tackle air and water pollution over the next two decades. Weakening these targets is an embarrassment and a betrayal.

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Business Green

JUNE 28, 2021

A new environmental scoring system for food and drinks packaging is set to launch across select retailers and products this autumn, as part of a government-backed drive to help consumers make more environmentally friendly choices.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Latest figures from UN add to growing library of evidence that global financial system needs a major revamp if biodiversity and climate goals are to be met. The COP15 Biodiversity Summit, kicking off next Wednesday in Montreal, is set to be no different. UN environment summits are increasingly about money.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The EPP is vociferously opposing two major pieces of legislation from the EU’s Green Deal, a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets. It includes key reforms that are currently making their passage through Europe’s lawmaking bodies.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Eco-bonus' Italian recovery package promises solar panel rebate. French auto rescue package promises EV surge. PSA, owner of the Peugeot and Citroën brands, said it would aim to increase its output of clean cars from zero last year to 450,000 a year, while Renault has similarly pledged to triple production by 2022.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It plans further reductions by 2022, according to the press release Mars issues to trumpet this achievement. . The group has pledged support of collective, systemic efforts to "remove deforestation, forest degradation and conversion from the key commodity supply chains of palm oil, soy and paper, and paper, pulp and fiber-based packaging." .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With biodiversity in sharp decline across the world, and numbers of birds and pollinators plummeting in Europe, green groups are deeply concerned at the prospect of any further delays. “We need to look at the interests behind that. Brussels has come under intense pressure from agribusiness ever since. Privileged Access. Their agenda?

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Ahead of COP26 in November, where mobilising green finance will rightly be one of the four key themes, the UK government has announced a number of exciting initiatives to mobilise capital towards tackling climate change and biodiversity loss whilst delivering a green economic recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

A new £1bn Transforming Cities Fund - aimed at delivering a range of schemes across the country by 2022-23, including new cycling and walking routes, rail infrastructure, and bus funding in a boost for active travel and public transport.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The open letter, published this morning, warns the government failed to meet the statutory deadline of 31 October to confirm new long-term targets for air quality, water, biodiversity, and species abundance, as well as resource efficiency and waste reduction. Prompt, clear and decisive action is now of the utmost importance.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It notes the "extraordinary challenges" the UK currently faces from Russia's war in Ukraine, soaring energy and food prices, and rising threats to the economy and global security "including the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss". — APPG on Environment (@EnvironmentAPPG) September 7, 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They fear the revocation of EU-era law could harm the UK's air, water, biodiversity and climate and create further bureaucratic burdens for already-stretched civil servants. — Shaun Spiers (@ShaunSpiers1) September 22, 2022. The Bill has environmental campaigners extremely worried, however.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Suppliers tend to be large, vertically integrated operations, often complete with facilities for manufacturing chicken feed and processing and packaging chicken meat. The EBRD exited the company, along with all companies in Russia and Belarus in December 2022. Yum has since withdrawn from Russia and severed ties with the country.)

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Business Green

JUNE 27, 2022

After more than two years of Covid-induced delays, the crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit is now pencilled in for December in Montreal, Canada, leaving just six months for negotiators to lay the groundwork for 195 countries to sign off on what should prove to be an historic global treaty to protect and enhance nature.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

per pound in 2022. And as coffee growers venture into new regions, they’ll tear down more trees, threatening biodiversity and transforming even more forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire. 100 words on the dot.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Budget test.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

The plastic ban calls for several components, including a ban on China’s production and sale of plastic bags that are less than 0.025 mm thick; a ban on plastic bags in major cities before 20201, then all cities and towns by 2022 and all produce vendors by 2025; a ban on single-use straws in restaurants before 2021, and a reduction of single-use plastic (..)

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Eco friendly retail packaging guide. In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. Retail packaging defined: The impact of packaging waste and the rise of the ethical consumer.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As you plan for events of the new year, Blue Sky’s got you covered with a 2022 planner that’s not only comprehensive in its format, but environmentally-friendly too. It means that the area is monitored to maintain biodiversity and replanting schedules. My first impression came with the packaging. This planner is much more.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025. Responsible sourcing is a big focus , with the company aiming for 100 percent sustainably sourced tomatoes by 2025, 100 percent sustainable and traceable palm oil by 2022, and 100 percent cage-free eggs globally by 2025 (among other ingredients).

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. The country was on track to add 150 gigawatts of solar this year (versus adding 87 gigawatts in 2022), more than the total capacity in the U.S.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2021

It said it would aim to reduce carbon emissions across its operations and value chain by at least 55 per cent by 2025 and at least 65 per cent by 2030, against a 2019 baseline, backed by targets to secure 100 per cent renewable power by 2022, and shift to a 100 per cent battery-car fleet by 2024.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2021

Higher tree planting targets, a ban on peat-based garden compost, and corridors for biodiversity protection next to rivers are among a flurry of conservation measures expected to be unveiled by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) tomorrow, reports suggest. qgcanopy pic.twitter.com/okkwwhBrIi.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn. — Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) September 5, 2022.

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