GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point. It's still early days for many of these markets, and sustainability goals remain one of the top drivers for fleets to buy these vehicles. Thus efficiency tools — such as aerodynamic packages, anti-idling and driver education — are still important. Katie Fehrenbacher.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But some companies are setting a trend for aiming to become net zero by the end of 2022. Crystal Doors were named Manufacturer Of The Year at the 2021 Business Green Leaders Award and Small Business of the Year at the Sustainability Leaders Awards 2021 due to their dedication to being net zero by 2022. Crystal Doors.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 6, 2022

Last year was a reckoning for companies racing the clock to meet their 2025 sustainable packaging goals. See the original post here: The 6 sustainable packaging trends we’ll be watching in 2022.

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Sustainability Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2022

As we kick off a new year, it’s a good time to take a look at what is trending in the world of sustainability. Sustainability is the “new normal” From food production, to packaging, to fashion to lifestyle products, there is a clear effort to replace traditional demands with sustainable alternatives.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 24, 2023

Over the past six months, the Greentown Go Make 2022 cohort of five climatetech startups has been working closely with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) (“MCA”) and the M-Lab Companies to accelerate partnerships to deploy and commercialize supply-chain-decarbonization solutions. The startup is based in Waterloo, ON, Canada.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Kraft Heinz sustainability chief reflects on 'interdependence'. Food company Kraft Heinz has been relatively quiet about its corporate sustainability strategy in the five years since it was formed through the merger of food giants Kraft and Heinz — stepping out in early 2018 to provide an update. Heather Clancy.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! Manufacturing.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together. That's one of the challenges we've identified that we feel like we can make a big impact on within our whole strategy," said Jenn Keesson, sustainability manager at IKEA U.S. . trillion in 2022 from $3.53 Deonna Anderson. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. Black Friday is upon us.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'. Even though the foundation is a separate entity, there is a close link between its mission and the company’s sustainability goals, according to senior executives. I've got history in sustainability, but I'm a business guy. Heather Clancy.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The top 25 most sustainable fleets. But the beverage maker has a big sustainability plan and is taking a first-mover approach to decarbonizing its dedicated fleet of around 1,600 vehicles. The city of Oakland in California has a long history of setting climate and sustainability goals, and in 2003 adopted a green fleet policy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2022

UK sustainable packaging firm also among second tranche of winners of Prince of Wales' high profile Earthshot Prize. The competition, launched by the Prince of Wales in 2020 , aims to discover and scale up innovative solutions that can help deliver a more sustainable, lower-carbon world by 2030.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

and Houston, Texas, May 24, 2022 — Decarbonizing supply chains is critical to reducing emissions from the manufacturing sector and beyond. From production to packaging and distribution, each stage of the supply chain needs robust climatetech innovation. Applications for Go Make 2022 are due by Aug. 9, 2022 at 11:59 p.m.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

UK-based cereals company is set to reach 100 per cent recyclable packaging well ahead of 2025 deadline. The parent company behind Weetabix has announced that 99 per cent of its packaging will be widely recyclable by next summer, while it works towards reaching a 100 per cent target ahead of the 2025 deadline proposed by the UK Plastics Pact.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

Greentown Go Move 2022 brought BASF and Magna together with five climatetech startups to advance solutions that decarbonize the automotive industry’s life-cycle impact. BASF, the Leading Partner on Go Move 2022, is a global leader in chemicals and the number one chemical supplier to the automotive industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The ban applies to the following single-use categories: Plates, bowls and trays unless you are supplying them to another business or the items are packaging (pre-filled or filled at the point of sale). If we want consumers to change their behaviours, we have to make the sustainable choice the easy choice.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Company announces goal to ensure Walkers, Doritos, and Lay's crisps use recycled or renewable plastic packaging by end of the decade. The company said it will trial new packaging from this year, piloting a renewable plastic for its Lay's range in France and recyclable Walkers crisps' packets in the UK.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 16, 2022

Creating certified sustainable coffee. Summit Coffee views sustainability broadly to consider the community and the environment, while also focusing on developing positive and collaborative relationships across their entire value chain. Taking an all-encompassing approach to sustainability. Summit Coffee Co. Summit Coffee Co.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

[link] While life continues to slowly emerge from the pandemic bubble, there are lingering issues continuing to challenge us in 2022. In a 2022 trends feature for Forbes , Shayna Harris explores some creative solutions to problems like zero food waste. Curious about what else 2022 may have in store?

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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]. Trends in corporate sustainability have been mostly consistent — an expanding climate crisis, lightning-speed growth in clean tech, rising pressure from many stakeholders, and more. Sustainable finance and ESG explode into the mainstream.

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Charged

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The company’s new range of Li-ion batteries features a modular design to optimize performance and packaging, and has been engineered with lifecycle sustainability in mind, including reuse and recycling at the end of life. Caterpillar will showcase prototypes of its battery technologies at the upcoming bauma 2022 trade show in Munich.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

20, 2022 — Greentown Labs and Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) (“MCA”), today announce five startup participants for Greentown Go Make 2022 , a Greentown Go program designed to accelerate startup-corporate partnerships to decarbonize points across traditional industrial supply chains. Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Oct.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

We can only build back better sustainably if we protect the climate and nature," he stressed. Renewable electricity generation from hydropower, wind and solar PV is expected to grow strongly around the world over the next two years with output increasing by around eight per cent in 2021 and six per cent in 2022. per cent in 2022.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What may come as a surprise is that the utilities industry is leading when it comes to adopting sustainable practices. In 2022, we expect more utilities will likely get onboard and firm up commitments and strategies. Energy Transition for Sustainability. As noted, the utilities industry is shifting to more sustainable practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances highlights Enel Group, which has announced a set of multi-tranche sustainability-linked bonds worth €4.1 Other major moves were also made by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with a sustainability bond in Croatia and green financing in Turkey. Enel S.p.A.,

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

In its new 2022 ESG Report, published yesterday, the retail giant also revealed it had reduced its electricity consumption by approximately 11 percent year-on-year in US stores, despite adding five new stores to its portfolio.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It returns for the 2022 model year with significant package changes. This Premium Plus package I tested continues to offer the available Black optic package. It’s an Audi just all electric folks. It’s really the brand’s first fully electric SUV. Yet now it adds a new 21-inch sport wheel design.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

European legislative bodies have mobilized themselves en masse since March 2022, which is when several proposals aimed at product sustainability saw the light of day, most notably a circular economy business model.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

From packaging to supply chains to recycling behaviours - staying environmentally ethical can, at times, feel like a full-time endeavour. Definition: Consumers want brands to take the guesswork out and make sustainable choices as easy as possible. Eco Acceleration. Definition: People want innovation to reflect the scale of the crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2024

Stefanie O’Gorman, Director of Sustainable Economics, Ramboll, and member of the Scottish Government’s Climate Emergency Response Group, seemed to feel it was a situation where anything but over-ambition was inappropriate. The overall jobs total in 2022 stands barely above the jobs total estimate in 2014 of 23,200.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

UK-based private jets emitted half a million tonnes of CO2 in 2022, the most in Europe, as new research slams the continent's most 'carbon intense' flights UK-based private jets clocked up their busiest year to date in 2022 with the total number of flights soaring by 75 per cent versus 2021, according to a new analysis commissioned by Greenpeace.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. As the world's largest drinks producer, the Coca-Cola Company's decarbonisation and sustainability efforts have to be supersized.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to slash the range's carbon footprint, TWE said it had made a number of major changes across its European supply chain, including introducing lightweight bottles, boosting the recyclability of packaging, improving the efficiency of refrigeration systems, and installing solar power at some of its sites.

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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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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

Shortlisted companies can now reserve their place at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022, which will take place in central London on the evening of 22 June. Simply Sustainable. Sustainable Development Capital LLP and Primary Energy - Primary Energy Project. JPA Workspaces - Sustainable Furniture. Anthesis Group.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Firm intends to roll out paper bottles for its Omo brand in early 2022 in bid to cut down on plastic. The consumer goods giant announced this morning it had built a prototype for the paper-based bottle for its laundry brand OMO, marketed as Persil in the UK, which it intended to sell in Brazil in early 2022 and Europe "soon after".

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