Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

There will then be a vote in the Scottish Parliament, after which the scheme will become law. While sense has prevailed and the commencement date has been pushed back to July 2022, there are still a number of concerning points. Waiting three years for a review could prove hugely (and unnecessarily) damaging to the packaging industry.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 29, 2022

According to the EU Commission , “The objective of these dialogues is to offer invited stakeholders the possibility to exchange with DG ENER officials on the European Green Deal package”. The 2022 dialogues’ theme will take into account political and legislative agendas, as well as the national context of each hosting country.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Having been crowned the most polluting brand in the world for two years running by the Break Free from Plastic campaign in its global audit of plastic waste, the firm also last year revealed it produces three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, or the equivalent of 200,000 bottles a minute.

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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. The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. Credit: Ian Nixon and Brigitte Wear.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Elon Musk's electric vehicle giant first confirmed its plans to build the factory in October 2022, stating that it would be used to package and ship battery-grade lithium hydroxide for its 4680 Tesla battery cells.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Plans to lift ban on fracking and curtain legacy EU environmental laws and regulations announced today risk backlash from some of the government's own MPs. But Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg argued revoking EU law was a necessity now the UK has left the trading bloc.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The change will be introduced as an amendment to the EU's climate law. billion ($807 billion) coronavirus recovery package that contains the EU Green Deal, including the condition that 37 percent of the funds will be used to meet green objectives. That means any new support mechanisms are unlikely to be in place before 2022.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

There are also compensation packages for workers in mines and power plants who lose their job as a result of the coal exit laws. have both brought forward their own coal phaseouts by a year to 2022 and 2024, respectively. Utilities might, for example, try to negotiate higher payouts if consideration of the law is reopened.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The European Commission is facing calls to introduce more ambitious measures to drive up recycling rates for drinks packaging, including glass, metal, and plastic bottles, or risk seeing decarbonisation and resource security efforts derailed. New report warns EU faces higher emissions if it fais to deliver on recycling targets.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

It said it would do this by stepping up its use of recycled materials, refurbishing and reselling used appliances, offering a free packaging recycling service to customers, and reducing the volume of waste going from its global manufacturing sites to landfill to zero by 2022.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Six more European countries are expected to complete promised coal phase outs by 2025 or earlier, with France aiming to close its last plant in 2022, Slovakia and Portugal scheduled to follow by 2023, the UK aiming for a 2024 target date, and Ireland and Italy planning to shutter their last plants by 2025.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Prime Minister Liz Truss announced the exercise earlier today, as she outlined a sweeping package of measures designed to help businesses and households cope with soaring energy bills. I've been asked to report back by the end of 2022, so no there's time to lose.". — Chris Skidmore (@CSkidmoreUK) September 8, 2022.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

The new rules are expected to pass into law in the spring of 2021, and likely to begin to be applied to new building plans starting in the spring of 2022. Elmes now believes that it's more likely that consumers will look for the whole package, along with the lower carbon, lower-cost heating and power that results.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

As its 2022 report noted: "Outside the formal climate policy processes, climate litigation is an important arena for various actors to confront and interact over how climate change should be governed.". Plastics, packaging and other forms of waste are also on the docket, as are companies' ESG marketing claims. Law and disorder.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

— three climate policy packages since 2021. 🦴 BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the "backbone," providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. A total of 18 states are said to back a call for a reassessment of pesticide laws. Brussels has come under intense pressure from agribusiness ever since.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Activists fighting deforestation in Indonesia have spoken out against calls from the packaging and fast food industry for paper-based packaging to be recognised as sustainable in EU law. The European Commission launched its Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations in November 2022. They cause huge fires.”

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Agnès Pannier-Runacher, French Minister for the energy transition - who led the negotiations - hailed the agreement on the Fit for 55 package as "a crucial step in attaining our climate objectives".

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For example, a few key specs from the datasheet for a modern Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFET in a standard TO-247 package will illustrate the point: Maximum junction temperature: T J[max] – 175° C Maximum continuous drain current (with case @ 25° C): I d – 115 A Drain-source on-resistance: R DS[on] – 16 m?

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Eco-bonus' Italian recovery package promises solar panel rebate. The decree has come into immediate effect, although the Italian parliament will have 60 days after the initial publication of the measures to introduce amendments to the law. French auto rescue package promises EV surge.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Annual publication of this data is a requirement of the Environment Act – which passed into law in November 2021. The Act also requires the Government to develop a Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, to be presented to parliament in September 2022, setting out how they’re going to stop sewage pollution.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Whilst that is a demonstrably untrue statement, it is absolutely true that the established energy rating scheme, recognised in law, offers a distinctly cold shoulder to the installation of heat pumps. Before you buy or rent any building (residential or commercial), you must by law be given an Energy Performance Certificate.

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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. Defra should commit to consult and fill these gaps without delay.".

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. I’ve tried here to touch on big themes and stories from 2021 that seem more lasting, and offer some thoughts on what to look out for in 2022. A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting.

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Front And Centered

MAY 25, 2022

Legislative and Government Relations Advocate It’s been one year since the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act was signed into law! By Guillermo Rogel, Jr. The definition that DoE ends up using will determine the communities that get targeted funding from the carbon allowances that are sold and traded.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 6, 2023

three climate policy packages since 2021. BIL “the backbone” : The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), aka Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law in November 2021, and is the “backbone,” providing much of the infrastructure these technologies need to scale at speed. Total funding: $1.2T

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

asked Hugh Blaza, a senior consultant at Sandstone Law. Hugh Blaza of Sandstone Law said: “During his summer jousts with Truss, Sunak adopted the ‘triple repeat’ approach, believing (presumably) that if he said the same word more than twice, it would be remembered as if it had been carved into tablets of stone. How could we know?”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

British savers have around £1.33trn invested in pension schemes, and the DWP said by the end of 2022, the climate risk to all these savings will be assessed, and in time, published "for the benefit of the saver". Taken as a package of measures, these proposals will go a long way towards driving up standards across the pensions sector.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, the mini-budget that triggered Truss' downfall provided only £1bn of additional funding for energy efficiency schemes, despite repeated warnings that energy saving measures represented the most effective means of enhancing energy security and minimising the multi-billion pound cost of the government's energy bill support package.

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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 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. These definitions, coupled with new anti-greenwashing laws , are meant to help suss out bad actors. Environment Program's Emissions Gap Report 2022. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

The first plant to use the technology has begun construction in Teesside, UK, to be operational in 2022 and able to process 80,000 tonnes of plastic waste per year. tonnes of plastic packaging – the second highest per capita in the world.[iv] i] Sites are planned in Germany, the US and Asia. iii] The UK alone produces 2.4m

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The move - which would form part of the EU's proposed new climate law to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 across the continent - marks a significant jump from the existing 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gases by 40 per cent, and would need approval by a majority of the 27 EU Member States as well as the European Parliament to come into force.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

They were recently found in samples of plastic food packaging from around the world, and a study published last month linked them to 20 percent the United States’ preterm births. According to one 2022 study , more than 1,000 chemicals — including many EDCs — commonly used in packaging like takeout containers can migrate into food.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified. The toymaker seeks to cut normalized carbon emissions in half by 2028.

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