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'Horrific': Iceland details full scale of plastic packaging sold in its stores

Business Green

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Last year, Lidl's total plastic packaging footprint stood at just over 60,000 tonnes, the figures show. Our message is clear.

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Chitty-chitty-pop-bang! Are noise cameras ready to tackle UK traffic?

Envirotec Magazine

While modern cars may be all too easily modified to produce ear-splitting bangs, pops and other eruptions, a growing hazard for the modern city dweller (at least if they value being able to sleep or concentrate on a task), the technology to pinpoint such vehicles, for law enforcement purposes, is not-so-trivial. 3 Where has it been tried?

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EU recovery package: Net zero launch pad or missed opportunity?

Business Green

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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Climate Policy News You Can Use — January 2024

EDF + Business

Tune into upcoming webinars hosted by DEC and NYSERDA on the New York Cap-and-Invest pre-proposal and program analysis (Jan 23, 25, and 26) Go Deeper Read EDF’s recent blog: New York is developing a cap-and-invest program to cut climate pollution. Check out EDF’s blog for more on MERP. Check out EDF’s blog for more on 30C.

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Global Briefing: India preps $2.2bn green hydrogen incentive package

Business Green

Indian government officials speaking to the newswire said the incentive programme could be officially announced in the country's upcoming 2023/24 budget, due to be unveiled on 1 February. But, reporting their findings to the Tesmanian blog , the user has now re-visited the site and confirmed signs of activity. kg - to produce in India.

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Data deluge

Envirotec Magazine

The EA has since mandated water utilities to provide complete coverage of the network, which at this point leaves only 11% of them unmonitored, with the last portion scheduled to come online by 2023. Annual publication of this data is a requirement of the Environment Act – which passed into law in November 2021. Addressing the problem.

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Meet the Shadowy Network Vilifying Climate Protestors

DeSmogBlog

Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists. In recent years, they’ve packaged it in ways that could be turned into anti-protest legislation. The Centre for Independent Studies worried in a blog post that literacy was taking a backseat to activism in Australian schools.