Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2021

Coca Cola European Partners (CCEP) has said it will electrify all 8,000 cars and vans in its fleet by 2030, touting the move as an important milestone in its drive to achive net zero emissions by 2040. Head of EV100 Sandra Roling predicted CCEP's transition to electric cars and vans would help drive acceptance of battery cars across Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

Germany on Wednesday passed a new 2040 target of 40 gigawatts and boosted its interim 2030 target from 15 gigawatts to 20 gigawatts. gigawatts, according to data from the Wind Europe trade body. The new offshore wind bill was passed on the same day that Germany pushed through its economic stimulus package.

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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 30, 2022

The move is the latest in a series of measures to optimise packaging for the products customers order most often, which Amazon said have resulted in it removing the equivalent of two billion shipping boxes in packaging material globally since 2015.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2019

government pledged £220 million ($283 million) toward getting a fusion power plant up and running by 2040, as part of moves to cut the country’s emissions to net zero by midcentury. The announcement follows a £22 million funding package to create a fusion energy research facility in Rotherham in north England.

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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 will also look to go further and faster in other European markets where the conditions allow," said PepsiCo Europe CEO Silviu Popovici.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 10, 2022

As part of the Fit for 55 package, European parliamentarians have supported revision of CO2 emission performance standards for new vehicles. In other words, by 2035 all new passenger vehicles and vans in Europe would be required to be zero emission, i.e. electric or hydrogen powered. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 2, 2022

The pilot project aims to establish the first self-consumption energy community in Europe with a citizen involvement approach. Have you read: Project OMEGA-X – A European energy data space Digitalising Europe’s energy sector – ‘enabling trustful and digitally enabled interactions’. PV build up 3, Adeje. Courtesy E.ON.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Plastic packaging will continue to be used in only a small number of scenarios, the company said, including in bad weather where products are left on the doorstep and to avoid spillages. Ending the use of plastic air pillows is just another step towards packaging that can easily be added to our customers' household recycling.".

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

The market for petrol and diesel cars may see a temporary post-crisis recovery, it said, especially as guidance to avoid public transport encourages more people to commute by car and governments mull auto-focused stimulus packages, but in the face of competition from electric vehicles (EVs) the sector is on course for long-term decline thereafter.

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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 will also look to go further and faster in other European markets where the conditions allow," said PepsiCo Europe CEO Silviu Popovici.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Mitsubishi is already a substantial investor in Europe's electricity market, including a 20 percent stake in U.K. Poland is also preparing to pursue an 8-gigawatt offshore wind target by 2040. The company operates about 2 gigawatts of wind capacity, roughly a quarter of it offshore, alongside nearly 300 megawatts of solar.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PepsiCo accelerates efforts to build a more resilient and sustainable food system, reducing absolute GHG emissions more than 4 percent by 2030 across entire value chain and pledging to net-zero emissions by 2040. Clancy: You mentioned a couple of interim goals to the 2040 one. That is front and center for everything we do in packaging.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By Helen Spence-Jackson and Thorfinn Stainforth The European Commission has just proposed a new 2040 climate target of -90% greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 1990 levels. At the same time a recent official scientific report shows that there is still a lot of hard work and policy setting to do to reach it. billion in 2023.

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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 will also look to go further and faster in other European markets where the conditions allow," said PepsiCo Europe CEO Silviu Popovici.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

All new road vehicles would also need to be zero emission by 2040, with the draft law including measures to implement low emission zones in urban areas and facilitate walking, cycling, and greater use of public transport.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

The new line of products - initially launching today for customers in the US, Canada, and Europe - is being given its own brand store on the online retail giant's website, the company said. It is also the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy, as part of its drive to become a net zero emission firm by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Google announced a package of renewables deals on Thursday totaling 1,600 megawatts, which the tech behemoth says is the largest corporate renewables purchase in history. Europe and in Chile. Made up of 18 deals, Google’s projects will be built across the U.S., Amazon, too.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Alliance of leading truckmakers pledge to switch to zero emission models by 2040. A group of Europe's largest truckmakers have this week pledged to stop selling vehicles that produce emissions by 2040, a decade earlier than originally planned. It also called for a higher tax on carbon across Europe to help drive the change. "If

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

For example, Char.gy, which offers more than 1,350 lamppost and bollard charging points across the country, now offers rates of 29p per kWh between midnight and 7am as part of its new Night Saver package - which is 34p lower than its standard the daytime rate.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

But the report emphasises that in order to realise the full climate and technological potential of hydrogen-powered flight to help realise Europe's net zero ambitions, rapid action is needed to develop a supportive policy framework that can unlock investment in research and development.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

But on Tuesday the country's climate ministry gave an update on its energy strategy to 2040, including plans to invest $40bn in building its 69GW of nuclear power capacity, with its first plant earmarked to be up and running in 2033, alongside 8-10GW of offshore wind, according to Reuters. South Korea to shut down 30 coal more plants.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

And while it's not a central concern today for those companies (Enel, EDP, BayWa and others) or industry groups (SolarPower Europe and WindEurope), all see green hydrogen playing a vital role in achieving deep decarbonization of the energy system. Interest in green hydrogen is skyrocketing among major oil and gas firms.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 23, 2020

But the company also owns a lot of other brands that offer other consumer packaged goods such as deodorant (Speed Stick), body soap (Irish Spring) and other household cleaning products (Fabuloso). And what are those items packaged in? Corra, director of packaging innovation and sustainability at Colgate-Palmolive.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2020

Volvo Cars — owned by China’s Geely Holding and not to be mistaken with Volvo Group — is pledging to become carbon neutral by 2040. Three macrotrends: Regulators in Europe and China are tightening emissions rules and driving automakers that sell into those markets to launch zero- and low-emissions vehicles. What do you think?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That means using estimated carbon emissions factors per kwh of electricity that will be relevant to 2030 or 2040. Another example closer to my home is packaging recycling. Yet we know, for example, that in Europe by 2030 in all probability we will see 90 per cent collection of PET bottles and cans.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

Consensus is building in Europe and around the world that investment in decarbonisation initiatives will be central to a successful economic recovery from Covid-19. This is much needed, as hydrogen currently only makes up one per cent of Europe's energy supply and so we must make great strides and quickly.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Soft drinks giant unveils new goal to double share of drinks it sells through reusable packaging. The new commitment to boost packaging reuse across its products is also designed to help deliver on the company's overarching target to reduce virgin plastic per serving by 50 per cent by 2030 and deliver net zero emissions by 2040.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

The 1,240MW VPI Immingham facility, one of the largest CHP plants in Europe, is used by local refineries to produce gasoline and other products from crude oil. "It can establish the foundation for a gateway to decarbonise the wider Humber, bringing new industries, sectors and jobs to the region.".

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Changing desert into a renewable paradise As governments and industries seek less-polluting alternatives to hydrocarbons, the world’s biggest crude exporter doesn’t want to cede the upcoming hydrogen business to China, Europe or Australia and lose a potentially massive source of income. Yet the focus remains on exports.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The decisions included in the Glasgow Package will have a major impact on the global economic recovery, jobs and business growth opportunities. ºC campaign, over 200 companies have signed up to The Climate Pledge - targeting net-zero by 2040, and more than 2,000 small and medium-sized enterprises have joined the SME Climate Hub.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The analysis warns that China and Europe are "visibly pulling ahead", in both market share and absolute terms, compared to other markets when it comes to EV deployment. The Global Facility to Decarbonise Transport projects also includes a dedicated package for the broader Sub-Saharan Africa region.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

and globally by 2040. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. More broadly, the company is moving toward a "climate positive" value chain by 2040, embracing science-based targets.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2023

The good news is we've already removed 100 tonnes of plastic packaging from deliveries to our customers - just one example of how we're reducing waste and promoting a circular economy. We're striving to reach Net Zero carbon emissions for our UK operations by 2027, and to be fully Net Zero across the Group by 2040.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The three-year funding package is to be channelled into solutions and measures that help the firm, which bottles Coca-Cola products across Western Europe, to eventually transition to using 100 per cent recycled plastic, as well as into depolymerisation technology that can improve rates of plastic recycling, it said.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

Changing desert into a renewable paradise As governments and industries seek less-polluting alternatives to hydrocarbons, the world’s biggest crude exporter doesn’t want to cede the upcoming hydrogen business to China, Europe or Australia and lose a potentially massive source of income. Yet the focus remains on exports.

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