GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

FedEx — which uses over 180,000 vehicles to deliver packages across continents and operates the world's largest cargo airline — has been implementing sustainability practices for years, but the announcement represents a major acceleration of the company's commitments. That fuel also accounts for 6 percent of its annual operating budget.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The University of Cambridge has committed to divest from all direct and indirect investments in fossil fuels by 2030, as the institution works towards its goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2038.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. A lot of plastic is produced from fossil fuels. The plastic choice. Reducing waste.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The UK could reach a 60 per cent renewable power system by 2025 were it to shift Covid-19 energy sector recovery funds from fossil fuels to green power, report concludes. The current road could lock-in unnecessary fossil fuels, create 60 per cent fewer jobs and miss the UK's net-zero target," he explained.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

In its latest forecast today, BNEF said fossil fuel car sales likely already peaked in 2017. It was inevitable that the pandemic would severely impact demand for cars of all stripes in 2020, but it looks like fossil fuel car sales are unlikely to enjoy the kind of fast tracked recovery that the EV sector could yet navigate.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

On Thursday, Amazon suggested it may be able to reach 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, which would outpace its goal to meet that target by 2030. Amazon’s plans to reach net-zero include the emissions the company and its supply chain directly produce, such as through the manufacturing of packaging and the delivery of packages.

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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.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Fleets are often the workhorses that toil behind the scenes: the garbage trucks that pick up your trash before dawn; the long-haul semi-trucks that move goods from the port; the bucket trucks that utilities use to fix power lines and keep your lights on; the delivery vans that drop off your packages and help you stay safe inside your homes.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2021

Fossil fuel firms are increasingly eyeing up plans for blue hydrogen production, but think tank E3G fears the nascent sector risks locking in a new generation of high carbon infrastructure and jobs.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Advocates of clean energy may get a last-minute present from Congress this year in the form of a bipartisan package of programs to boost funding for renewable energy, energy storage, electric vehicles, carbon capture and other low-carbon and electric technologies. Policies laid out in the Clean Industrial Technology Act, a bill from Sen.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. Mura says it will form the blueprint for a rapid global rollout that will see one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025 – equivalent to nearly half the plastic packaging waste produced in the UK each year.[i]

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Moreover, the technology results in more air pollution than EVs or fuel cell vehicles and environmental campaigners are fearful that allowing manufacturers to continue to produce ICE vehicles could leave the door open for the continued use of fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Fuelling stations have been installed at the distillery, and the biogas is now powering specially converted trucks that handle the transportation of the spirit at all stages of its production at the Dufftown distillery through to bottling and packaging, a journey that covers four William Grant & Sons’ sites in central and western Scotland.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

.” Having already built a prototype Biohydrogen Generator and successfully completed feasibility studies in real-world industrial settings, including at the Mannok Cement Plant in Ballyconnell (pictured), CATAGEN says this funding will allow it to deliver a full-scale demonstrator by 2025.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

Air cargo operator pledges to invest in sustainable fuels, carbon capture research, and fleet electrification in bid to meet new climate goals. The company said it was targeting a fully zero emission parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet by 2040, a push that will be accomplished by gradually phasing out its existing fossil fuel fleet.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2021

GWEC CEO Ben Backwell urged governments to invest in the sector as they designed stimulus packages designed to boost economies in the wake of the pandemic, warning that to date many governments had unveiled recovery plans that favoured fossil fuel energy over renewables. "As More than 3.3

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Reports suggested the new package of funding is expected to meet the $100bn target, but potentially by taking an average of the level of annual funding provided throughout the period from 2020 to 2025. The guidelines also reiterated a previous target to cut carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 18 per cent against 2005 levels by 2025.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

Beauty brand unveils new bio-plastic based packaging that promises to cut the carbon footprint of its moisturizer jars by 60 per cent. Nivea has this week unveiled new packaging that promises to slash its use of plastics and reduce the carbon footprint of its famous jars of moisturizer by around 60 per cent.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The Financial Times reported that the package is likely to feature dozens of new announcements and consultations running to almost 1,000 pages. Meanwhile, The Telegraph reported that long awaited rules to strengthen energy efficiency standards for rented properties are set to be delayed from 2025 to 2028.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The soft drink giant said it would package the entire range of PepsiCo brand beverages using plastics recycled from post-consumer packaging known as recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET). We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Plus synthetic fibers are fossil-fuel-derived. 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. Get inspired by their other green-packaging methods here.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The percentage of emissions covered for intra-EU journeys would ratchet up over time, starting at 40 per cent in 2025, before rising to 70 per cent in 2025, and 100 per cent in 2026. Smaller vessels would be exempt from the legislation, which is to apply on all ships above 5,000 gross tonnes.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging Cheryl Baldwin Mon, 06/15/2020 – 00:00 This article is sponsored by Pure Strategies. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. When we look ahead, are we on the path to a circular and sustainable system for packaging? Used packages need to be recycled.

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Charged

JUNE 27, 2023

Vlaskamp estimates that green hydrogen (which is produced by electrolysis, unlike grey hydrogen, which is produced from fossil fuels) currently costs between four and five times what customers are willing to pay. We see today that green hydrogen is far too expensive.”

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In 2009, developed countries made a collective commitment to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries between 2020 and 2025. First, it's important to look at what the fiscal year 2021 spending package passed by Congress in December did for international climate funding.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The research, conducted by the non-profit Global Energy Monitor and shared with DeSmog, found thousands of cases in which high-profile corporations engage in lobbying in state capitols, hiring the same lobbyists that do work for powerful fossil fuel companies. It has also sought to enlist other companies to take on the pledge.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

UN Secretary-General offers starkest criticism yet of the outlook for the coal sector, as he calls on India to end support for fossil fuels. As part of a Covid-19 economic recovery package announced in June, the Modi government revealed ambitions to open a further 41 coal mines. They see the writing on the wall.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Germany this year agreed to a €40 billion ($45 billion) compensation package for workers affected by the country's planned phaseout of coal generation by 2038. said Tim Judson, executive director at the Maryland-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service, which lobbies for an end to nuclear and fossil-fuel power.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. industry and jobs.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The soft drink giant said it would package the entire range of PepsiCo brand beverages using plastics recycled from post-consumer packaging known as recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET). We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Spanish government also published an auction schedule for all upcoming auction rounds until 2025. The government is to auction 1,500MW annually between 2021 and 2025 under a wind-only pot and given this week's auction was delayed from 2020 a second auction is expected later this year. Tesla reports first annual profit. "In

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Their investment in Rivian and subsequent order of 100,000 electric delivery vans will substantially shrink the carbon footprint of Amazon's package delivery network. Specifically, it said the firm is on track to source 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of its current 2030 target. billion shipping boxes.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The plan will be carried out by LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy subsidiary, which will aim to deliver no excess manufacturing materials and packaging to landfills and incineration without energy recovery. GE Renewable Energy announced a plan Tuesday to produce zero waste wind turbine blades by 2030.

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Charged

JUNE 9, 2020

Following the French government’s announcement of an auto industry bailout that included some pro-EV measures, the German government has unveiled a stimulus package that advances vehicle electrification. Germany’s automakers were hoping for measures that would incentivize the sale of fossil-fuel vehicles.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The soft drink giant said it would package the entire range of PepsiCo brand beverages using plastics recycled from post-consumer packaging known as recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET). We need to design packaging to be recyclable, reduce the amount of packaging we use, and make it easy for consumers to recycle.

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