Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Emissions from farm to table to landfill Emissions are generated at every stage of the food system, from the production of food on farms to transport and refrigeration to processing and packaging to consumer dietary choices and, ultimately, to food waste. In a 2022 paper published in Nature Scientific Reports , Ciniro Costa, Jr.,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. The definition of fleet is evolving. Media Source.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 16, 2022

Summit Coffee has reached Platinum Status at the Green Business Bureau , is Climate Neutral certified and a partner of 1% for the Planet through its roasting business, and is working through the B Corporation certification process. Summit Coffee Co. Coffee driven and community focused, they value relationships from farm to cup.

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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.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

Energy Innovation used the California Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) to identify a “Deeper Decarbonization Scenario” and compare it to modeling for the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) 2022 Draft Scoping Plan. . CARB is currently evaluating climate policies for its 2022 update of the Climate Change Scoping Plan.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA has released its annual review of Hungary’s energy policy, stating that energy efficiency needs to be central in the coming years for the European country to reach its net zero targets, The Hungary 2022 Energy Policy Review states how Hungary has significantly increased its climate ambitions since the last review.

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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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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

New Pandora Brilliance line has been certified as 'carbon neutral' thanks to use of largely renewables-powered lab-created diamonds. The company said the new Pandora Brilliance range would launch in the UK this week, with a global launch in other key markets slated for 2022.

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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. Environment Program's Emissions Gap Report 2022. "We There's a reason why carbon is all around. Fuel] can never ever be carbon negative," Sick said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

By 2030 we're going to be net carbon zero and eventually, hopefully, we're going to be carbon positive," he will say. Construction of Sky Studios Elstree is expected to be complete in 2022. He will also stress that Sky is already realising benefits to the business as a result of its net zero target. "By

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a company, Google claims to be carbon neutral since 2007 and has set a goal to be carbon-free by 2030. Green Building Council. Google has made headlines multiple times for its efforts to lean into environmentally-friendly practices.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Forty-five per cent of Americans want to be viewed as eco-friendly consumers, according to the results in September of an unpublished 2022 Eco Pulse study from Shelton Group. "In Carbon offset. Does the carbon offset provider use sound science and accounting practices to back up the claims it makes about its carbon offsets?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

“We have received many letters from children about the environment asking us to remove single-use plastic packaging,” Niels B. LEGO also added solar panels to its factories as part of its goal of a carbon-neutral manufacturing process by 2022. Kids have spoken, and LEGO has listened. and Canada.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"No economy in the world, much less the soon-to-be fourth largest, has put forth such a comprehensive roadmap to reach carbon neutrality. And we are placing before all, the key elements of India's transition to a low-carbon development pathway.". It integrates effortlessly mitigation, adaptation and transformation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

We have a duty to the communities we serve to continue to reduce the impact our business has on the environment and we are committing to reduce our own carbon emissions and become Net Zero by 2040, 10 years ahead of the government's own targets, because 2050 isn't soon enough," he said. "We

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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. Officials have warned that the failure of biodiversity-focused lawmaking could leave Europe’s wider Green Deal plan to become carbon neutral by 2050 in jeopardy.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The winners were chosen for their innovative solutions to the world's most pressing environmental problems and awarded £1m each, alongside a package of professional support to help them scale up and roll out the winning innovations around the world.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By 2022, the EU had reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 34% compared to 1990 levels, with an increase in GDP of 54%. It produces over two million tons of low carbon cement annually and is responsible for around 10-15% of the cement supply in the markets in which it operates. Of these plastics, around 36% are used in packaging.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Cheshire site to become dedicated EV manufacturing plant from end of 2022 producing raft of electric van and car models. The company said its ambition was for the factory to be 'carbon neutral' by the middle of the current decade.

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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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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 23, 2024

The city’s early adoption of hydrogen taxis, demonstrated by a pilot project initiated by existing operators such as D’Ieteren’s Taxis Verts and Colruyt’s Virya Energy in September 2022, underscores the city’s commitment to cleaner mobility solutions.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

New report says raft of policy changes geared incentivising innovators to create new low carbon products and services for consumers could generate 'big bang' moment for the energy sector akin to finance in the 80s and telecoms in the 90s. Adopting this approach we can make the green revolution faster and cheaper than anyone imagined.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

"We remain fully committed to the historic Glasgow Climate Pact agreed at COP26 including a 68 per cent reduction in our emissions by 2030," he said, adding that "cheap, low carbon, reliable energy must sit at the heart of any modern economy".

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

📦 Voidless , a Milan, Italy-based on-demand packaging solutions platform, raised $2m in Seed funding from 360 Capital and CDP Venture Capital. According to the Rainforest Action Network , banks provided $669bn of finance to O&G projects in 2022, of which Barclays was responsible for $16.5bn, the most of any UK bank.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the report, the figure falls drastically short of the levels required to halt biodiversity loss, limit global warming to 1.5C, and achieve land degradation neutrality, with estimates suggesting $384bn is required annually by 2025 and $484bn is needed by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

One of the world's biggest steel-making firms, ArcelorMittal, has this week launched a sweeping new new package of initiatives aimed at driving down both its own carbon emissions and those of the industry more broadly.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

Food Processors Beverage Companies Grocery Stores Wholesale Clubs Agricultural Producers Restaurants Packaged Food Companies Meat Producers On average, two-thirds of food sector companies’ emissions are generated by farm-level production, making on-farm sustainability critical for abatement. Key Takeaways IRA adds $4.95

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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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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. This is the largest climate funding package Congress has ever passed. Funding the use of low-carbon materials in the built environment and in public infrastructure projects.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We all know that giving waste a second life is more carbon-efficient than incinerating it, but reaching a definition on what makes an item 'recyclable' is one of the most complex challenges policymakers currently face. The proposal states that packaging (all materials) entering the EU market must meet design for recyclability criteria.

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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. My first impression came with the packaging. The sample I received is the 2022 Weekly Planner 7×9 inches Ombre Blue in partnership with One Tree Planted.

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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. Meanwhile, incentives for senior leadership are now based in part on carbon elimination progress.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

In 2022, the game-changer is likely to be new rules to tip the market toward all-electric new construction. Much of the work on the 2022 update to what is officially known as California’s Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards has so far been done behind the scenes by staff at the California Energy Commission.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

” And although this was a painful lesson; we have now decreased our gas dependency on Russia, from 40% at the beginning of the year to 9% as we approach the end of 2022; it is nevertheless impressive. So, rapid deployment of renewables, but also all other low carbon clean sources in that context, like hydrogen” she said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In other packaging news, packaging provider Stora Enso and leading European takeaway salad bar company today announced the introduction of renewable formed fiber lids to replace single-use plastics in take-away packaging. Tetra Pak has also been independently verified as a better sustainable packaging option.

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