GreenTechMedia

JULY 3, 2020

Norway’s planned phase-out for internal combustion engines by 2025 is the most aggressive in Europe, but other countries are setting targets of their own. More expensive cars are eligible for a smaller package. “The carmakers now want to get people back into the showrooms and create strong demand.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

The shift to electric passenger cars could deliver a £24bn boost to the UK economy over the next five years, but the automotive industry and its supply chains must ramp up capacity 10-fold in order to meet growing demand, a joint government and industry backed report today estimates.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In other news, JPSCo has been awarded a US$100 million financing package from IDB Invest for its 2024-2025 investment programme for the ongoing modernisation of its grid, including the smart meter deployment and transmission and distribution upgrades, and the expansion of access to new customers. Have you read?

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 25, 2021

Earlier this month, McDonald’s became the latest major food company to announce a commitment to remove all added fluorinated chemicals from its food packaging that is served to customers. Consumers are hyper-aware of exposure to unsafe chemicals, especially when it comes to their food, and are demanding companies take action.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Businesses will have to comply with the same collection methods, but by an earlier date – 31 March 2025 (there being no requirement for them to collect garden waste or plastic film). We now need to quicken the pace of UK recycling rates by ensuring that packaging is designed to be reused, repaired or recycled.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Offering brand owners and converters top quality recycled material, suitable for use in highly demanding applications is Borealis’ latest contribution to a more circular economy of plastics. Life demands progress, and through collaboration we re-invent for more sustainable living.”. Early tests of the material look very promising!”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Kraft Heinz also updated its commitments with new targets pegged to 2025. Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025.

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Charged

MAY 16, 2022

FreeWire will use the new capital to support ambitious growth plans as it accelerates commercial deployments of its battery-integrated EV charging technology and increases manufacturing capacity to meet growing demand in markets such as the UK, Canada, Japan, and Australia/New Zealand. FreeWire is also evolving its software platform.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Meg Wilcox. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 01:15. We’re booming." .

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package Fossil-based plastic production is still growing exponentially. In recent years, we’ve seen over 450 companies pledge to dramatically slash their use or production of plastic by 2025 as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation circular economy commitments.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 29, 2021

This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm Deonna Anderson Fri, 01/29/2021 – 00:30 In Manteca, California, a small company is pioneering the creation and production of paper bottles for brands such as L’Oreal and Seventh Generation. Across the U.S. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

In a consultation published late last week, the Scottish government unveiled a package of proposals to ensure all new buildings are be fitted with climate-friendly alternatives to fossil fuel heating systems.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Package delivery giant and airline operator FedEx has announced it plans to achieve 'carbon neutrality' across its operations within the next 20 years through investments in electrification, sustainable fuels, energy efficiency, and carbon capture systems. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of the Environment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new report from McKinsey predicts global fossil fuel demand 'will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve', but warns the world is still on track to badly miss its climate goals. The influential consultancy giant today published a new report detailing how it expects global oil demand to peak in 2029, with gas demand peaking in 2037.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

This will in turn increase the supply of recycled plastic enabling industry to become more ‘circular’ and meet the forthcoming UK plastic packaging tax obligations. Flexible plastic represented 22% of all UK consumer plastic packaging in 2019 but only 6% was recycled3. Several other major retailers are set to follow suit.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

This supports a circular economic model whereby fewer resources are demanded reducing water demand. Tip #5: Switch to sustainable shipping and packaging. To ensure all aspects of your brand is sustainable, switch to biodegradable packagings like paper, cellulose, hemp, and other plant materials.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Like at today’s gas stations, ancillary services will also be offered—from EV-charging to sustainably packaged food and coffee. The Dickinson location will have 14 rapid EV-charging stations and aims to be selling water by Q2 2025, according to von Welczeck. The 20-person startup is currently raising a $20M Series A.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Jeremy Hunt also unveiled a £6 billion extra package of support for initiatives like retrofitting to insulate homes and upgrade heating systems, from 2025 – although it wasn’t clear if this was new money or not. We can’t wait until 2025,” said the local authority network. This is supposedly on top of £6.6

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. Then the pandemic hit, and the market changed — characterized by higher demand for single-use packages and bags, and lower availability of recycled materials. Used packages need to be recycled.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

The targets are currently set at a 15% reduction for 2025 and 37.5% Demand for aluminium in Europe is anticipated to grow to around 18 million tonnes by 2050 – an increase of more than 40% compared to 2018, and this will include significant growth in demand in the automotive, construction and packaging sectors.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In the context of the current crisis, with ambitious 2030 and 2050 climate targets set in the European Green Deal and the REPowerEU Package to become more independent of imports, the time to accelerate and complete the large-scale rollout of smart meters across Europe is now. to turn off appliances, or setting energy saving modes.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The bar will be packaged in 100 per cent plant-based ISCC certified bio-sourced plastic wrapping and will be sold at a retail price of £2.50 z, evolving consumer demands have long informed our ambition to provide a wide range of products that work for everyone and the new Cadbury Plant Bar range is the latest stop on this journey.".

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

million new jobs could be provided by the wind power sector over the next five years as the industry expands to meet soaring demand for clean energy, according to a new analysis from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). More than 3.3 The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) calculates roughly 1.2

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One council in England could secure up to £50m to switch all their local buses to run on batteries by 2025 through a new government competition. The electric bus town funding competition forms part of a wider £220m package of support to improve local bus services, which was first announced by the Chancellor Sajid Javid last September.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Enel X is aggregating batteries, electric vehicle chargers and commercial and industrial demand response, Engie is pulling together solar, storage and demand response, and Centrica Business Solutions is integrating the load flexibility of acquisition REstore Power into distributed energy offerings. Venice Beach, Calif.-based

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2021

The EP1 is designed to streamline the process of delivering packages from a vehicle to a customer. Trials conducted with partner FedEx Express found that the EP1 enabled drivers to handle 25 percent more packages per day, to say nothing of reducing strain on human backs.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Once collected by Tesco, as much of the material as possible is recycled into new products and packaging. This innovative collaboration is one of the ways that soft plastic returned to stores by our customers will be recycled into new food-grade packaging," said Sarah Bradbury, Tesco's group quality director.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

A raft of corporate green packaging goals are looming - how can they be met? Despite that sobering statistic, momentum is building towards 2025 sustainable packaging goals. Here are some key takeaways from three breakout sessions about sustainable packaging goals at Circularity 2021. Most come from brands and retailers.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Thursday’s 3-2 vote by the Arizona Corporation Commission approved a plan that’s been the subject of a months-long debate among regulators over the best way to renovate the state’s renewable energy mandates, which have been set at 15 percent of generation by 2025 for more than a decade.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The analysis suggests the resulting improvements in building efficiency would reduce demand for energy and in turn slash the level of subsidy the Treasury would have to provide to gas suppliers to deliver the planned cap on wholesale gas prices. A similar price freeze package is also expected for business customers.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The package of new, targeted financing approved by the EIB’s board of directors is expected to mobilise up to €115 billion ($114.6 The extension will run until 2027, subject to a Climate Bank Roadmap review foreseen in 2025. billion) in loans and equity financing over the next five years. billion) of new investment by 2027.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Global sales of heat pumps are set to hit record levels again this year, as demand for the low carbon technology soars in key markets around the world. However, it warns that the higher upfront cost of heat pumps means policy support is currently needed to help drive demand for the technology and bring down costs over time.

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Charged

MAY 26, 2020

France has announced an auto industry bailout package worth some 8 billion euros ($8.8 Last week, Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire said, “We are ready to support the demand for vehicles, but it will be support for clean vehicles that emit less CO 2 , especially electric vehicles.”.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Here’s how: Firstly, having more renewable energy sources can increase the demand for green energy. As more eco-invested consumers choose green power, it increases the demand for renewable energy sources. As noted, the utilities industry is shifting to more sustainable practices. Cisco enables utility customers’ sustainability goals.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 19, 2022

The package will mobilise up to €300 billion ($315 billion) to ensure investments are directed into three main pillars: Demand-side: Increasing the EU efficiency target for 2030 from 9% to 13%. And proposing a solar rooftop obligation for commercial and public buildings as of 2025 and for new residential buildings as of 2029.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Last month, the firms announced plans to construct one of its first-of-its-kind facilities at Dow's Böhlen site in Germany, which is tentatively pencilled in to be operational by 2025, producing around 120,000 tonnes per year of recycled plastic that will be prepped for manufacturing into new products.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2020

Despite a 29 percent drop in the average global capex per megawatt — a measure of the investment per megawatt generated — we forecast more than $200 billion in capex will be deployed in offshore wind between 2020 and 2025, in a new report. Project sizes and clusters of projects will increase by 63 percent by 2025.

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