GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

More battery and inverter packages from the same brand. In turn, inverter companies packaging third-party batteries will eventually make way for savvy battery companies who can package the whole system. The only question will be whether the ESS is packaged with solar panels or kept separate. Here are 10 predictions.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The John Lewis Partnership has committed to ensuring the soy, palm oil, cocoa, beef, leather, timber, and man-made cellulosic materials in its own-brand products do not cause deforestation, as part of a new package of measures announced this morning designed to help nature and reduce carbon emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Murphy's campaign platform, and the law, included something quite radical at the time: the goal of 600 megawatts of energy storage by 2021 and 2,000 megawatts by 2030. gigawatts of storage installation by 2025.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

It is no wonder that this file is the first one in the entire Fit for 55 package where Member States and the European Parliament have come to a final deal.”. And according to the European Commission, the legislative tools are set to deliver on the targets agreed in the European Climate Law. The agreement.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2022

From ice cream to shampoo, much of what we sell comes packaged in plastic. More than 80 per cent of people worldwide favour products with less plastic packaging, according to an IPSOS poll published last week. At Unilever we've pledged to halve our use of virgin plastic by 2025.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Defra unveils sweeping package of biodiversity and habitat policies, designed to halt species decline and trigger £500m tree planting programme.

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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. They are the pre-cursor to a much stricter set of regulations, the Future Homes Standard, to be implemented in 2025 that will cut permitted emissions by 80 percent.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The regulation, which will come into force in 20 days' time, strengthens the interim 2030 emissions reduction target automakers in the EU have to meet, as well as enshrines the 2035 phase-out date into law. Keep up to date with all the latest green business news by signing up to the free Daily and Weekly BusinessGreen Newsletters.

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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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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Products & Packaging : Do our products use sustainably sourced and eco-friendly materials? Risk Management.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 The new policy, unveiled in late July as part of the EU's pandemic recovery package, will see a levy of €800/tonne per kilogram of plastic waste introduced on all new products.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2021

RIS2 , described by ministers as the nation’s “largest ever” road building programme, sets out plans for upgrading England’s strategic road network up until 2025. Together, these make a balanced package that is entirely consistent with net zero.”.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Microsoft also positions itself as a climate champion, publicly vowing to reach 100 percent renewable energy for its operations by 2025 and to become a “carbon negative” company by 2030. Walmart store front. Credit: Mike Mozart. (CC CC BY 2.0). But the tech company also works with the same lobbyists that push a fossil fuel agenda.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

The move towards easier-to-recycle packaging formats seems well underway, but the issue of funding for waste and recycling is still up in the air, without the investment the EPR policy was intended to provide. Charges under the existing PRN regulations will carry on into 2024. The good news?

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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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Energy and Cleantech Council

JANUARY 5, 2021

The 2050 goal itself had already been adopted by the secretary of energy and environmental affairs under preexisting law. Without attempting to comprehensively summarize the act (or even just its energy law components), here are some of the provisions that are likely to push energy policy in Massachusetts towards a carbon-free future.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Additionally, Anglo American, a key copper producer, plans to reduce its output in 2024 and 2025 to decrease costs. 📦 Voidless , a Milan, Italy-based on-demand packaging solutions platform, raised $2m in Seed funding from 360 Capital and CDP Venture Capital. Decreasing ore quality and depleting reserves.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, a collaboration between industry and government on reducing food and packaging waste through the Courtauld 2025 Agreement had prevented 2.7 The new policy, unveiled in late July as part of the EU's pandemic recovery package, will see a levy of €800/tonne per kilogram of plastic waste introduced on all new products.

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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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Business Green

MAY 1, 2020

It comes as the IMF readies a total lending package in the region of $1tr to governments severely impacted by the pandemic, which Kristalina indicated should be used to help tackle climate change and slash emissions. "We Marjan Minnesma, director of Urgenda, hailed the package of measures as "an enormous win," according to The Guardian.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Moreover, Estée Lauder Companies also has declared its intention to make 75 percent to 100 percent of its packaging recyclable, refillable, reusable, recycled or recoverable by 2025 — the strategy will depend on the needs of individual brands. Clancy: Can you share your vision for sustainable packaging? What does business bring?

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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

JULY 27, 2020

Moreover, Estée Lauder Companies also has declared its intention to make 75 percent to 100 percent of its packaging recyclable, refillable, reusable or recoverable by 2025 — the strategy will depend on the needs of individual brands. Clancy: Can you share your vision for sustainable packaging? OK, there's tax incentives.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Its 60 signatories across public and private sectors agree to advance circularity goals for plastic by 2025. Chief legal officers . Chief marketing officers.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The document, unveiled this morning , sets out the supermarket chain's pledge to be a "net zero carbon business" by 2040 and to remove three billion pieces of plastic from products and halve the greenhouse gas emissions produced by its operations by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

” She added: “As last week’s £90m fine for Southern Water showed, environmental laws must not be undermined.” ” Environment Minister Rebecca Pow said: “This report which spans the last 12 months makes for extremely disappointing reading.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The EAC also reiterates calls for an overhaul and extension for the troubled Green Homes Grant programme , following weeks of negative headlines arising from administrative problems with the scheme and confirmation from the government last week that it is withdrawing over £1bn from the initial budget of the stimulus package.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. The vision for fully reusable, recyclable or compostable plastic consumer packaging includes participants ranging from Ahold Delhaize and Apple to Zespri Group and ZigZag Global. It seems an impossible situation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to an emergency package to offer immediate support to consumers, the best way to do this is to rapidly lower the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuels. It's saying no to lifting the ban on fracking, no to new coal and no to exploiting more North Sea oil and gas.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

A new report released this morning by Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals the UK's 10 leading supermarkets collectively produced almost 897,000 tonnes of plastic packaging in 2019, a figure that marks a 1.6 per cent reduction compared to levels recorded a year ago but a 1.2

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Packaging and plastic bags from seven of the UK's top 10 supermarkets, including Tesco, Sainsbury's, M&S, and the Co-op, was found burning or dumped illegally by roadsides, in fields and in waterways across 10 sites in the region of Adana, the campaigners said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Government plans to cement the UK's position as a global centre for green finance received a significant boost today, with the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiling proposals to issue the country's first sovereign green bond next year and make climate risk disclosure mandatory for major companies from 2025. 3 points: (1/4).

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AGreenLiving

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. and globally by 2040. .”

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. Its 60 signatories across public and private sectors agree to advance circularity goals for plastic by 2025. Chief legal officers. Chief marketing officers.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2021

French parliament approves landmark climate law. The final draft included a package of measures to accelerate the shift to zero emission vehicles, increase investment in building retrofits, and ban domestic flights under two and a half hours on routes that can be traveled by train.

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