GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

How to make the best of a challenging year? While the lasting impacts of COVID on industry may take years to accurately assess, one thing we can see right now is how the pandemic has focused the textile industry’s attention on sustainability. The textile companies creating material change. Liesl Truscott.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 26, 2024

Let me start by telling you about an old friend of mine: Four years ago this month, my high school friend Mel Baggs ( sie/hir/hirs )—a member of the developmental disability self-advocacy movement and an influential autism and disability justice activist in the early days of the internet— passed away. Sie deserved so much better.

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Michael Grossman

APRIL 27, 2020

We had to cancel the shoot at the last minute as the CEO was called away on a family emergency. Concerned male or female voice letting the audience know that Brand X feels the same pain you do, and how they are here to help you get through these challenging times. They asked me what I thought they should do. Commercial #1 : Cue piano.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

In total, the maritime industry’s carbon emissions only make up 3% of the total emissions worldwide. While there have been efforts to make the industry more sustainable even before the IMO’s declaration, more sustainability efforts from all corners of the industry have sprung up since the goal was set. Further increase in automation.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has provided a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities posed by a more rapid transition to a 100 percent renewable energy future. While electricity demand has faltered during the global pandemic, the share of wind and solar generation has continued to increase.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

years ago after heading strategy and innovation at Royal Philips, took over as CSO after Simon Lowden retired last fall. "I PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'. Heather Clancy. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 02:00. These initiatives, for example, are thought of in terms of years rather than months. "We

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2021

More than 440,000 people have so far signed up to the 31-day challenge in the UK, making this year's the biggest yet, according to Veganuary. Veganuary offers people a way to take positive action to protect our health and our planet, as well as help prevent future pandemics. If we act now, the future can be better.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 20, 2020

As always, keep in touch and let us know how things look on the ground: editors@greentechmedia.com. Tesla Closes Its Factories in California and New York : As calls for people to stay home grew increasingly urgent, Tesla announced plans to close two plants making electric vehicles and products for the solar and energy storage markets.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The CCC's advice on what to do with the Third Carbon Budget's pandemic-boosted emissions savings is unequivocal - the government must resist the temptation to cynically weaken the UK's world-leading climate targets The government could soon make the most important domestic climate policy decision of the past decade. rise by 15%?

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

A coalition of European business leaders, politicians, NGOs, trade unions, and academics has today joined a growing chorus of voices across the continent calling on the EU to help tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic through an unprecedented green investment programme.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Director-general of Britain's largest business body Tony Danker calls for transformative 10-year economic plan to bounce back from pandemic and put UK on track for net zero emissions. Taken together, they make 2021 as pivotal a year as any we can remember.".

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

And now, as the group gears up for their last weekend of discussions, the 107 Assembly members are set to check over and finalise their preferred pathway towards UK's statutory 2050 net zero greenhouse gas emissions target, which is then set to be delivered to MPs and government ministers for consideration.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A green wave is currently surging through the business world in full force, and it’s not expected to let up anytime soon. This article outlines 20 sustainable business practices your company can implement to make your offices more sustainable (ordered from low cost, high impact to high cost, low impact). Switch All Lighting to LEDs.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 6, 2022

they will say, while showing me some link about Chevron’s profits (as if this revelation will finally make me see the light). , they will say, while showing me some link about Chevron’s profits (as if this revelation will finally make me see the light). I shared the following story on Facebook last month, and it resonated with people.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Despite the threat of a global pandemic having been a top 10 global risk outlined by the World Economic Forum for a decade, the coronavirus crisis gripping economies around the world demonstrates "just how unprepared we were for the inevitable", they write.

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Defend Our Future

APRIL 15, 2020

For so many whose lives have been upended by the Coronavirus pandemic, the last thing they might be thinking is how we can make a difference in the face of the climate crisis. They work because our leaders are accountable to their constituents, so if enough of us make noise on an issue, we can get our priorities addressed.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. The challenges facing us are wide-ranging.

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EDF + Business

JULY 10, 2020

In fact, Amazon’s carbon emissions climbed 15% in the last year alone — even before coronavirus — due to increased sales. During this pandemic, at-home shoppers are deluged with purchases arriving by cardboard box, each delivered by polluting trucks. More trucks are making more trips, hurting the planet, and our health.”.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The idea is that we need to do a lot of hard work over the next 10 years to make EV driving so compelling that all of these drivers are basically jumping out of their chair at the opportunity to drive an EV,” said Arons. Lyft is hailing a ride to an all-electric future. New California emissions rules just around the corner.

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Terra Infirma

MAY 5, 2020

There’s an old saying ‘don’t let a crisis go to waste’ and there are plenty of voices calling for the current disruption to be used to build a new, better future. Alongside a myriad of activist voices, we’ve had a heavyweight study from Oxford University making the case for a green stimulus.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. The ROI Of Sustainability in Business. The Financial Risk of Not Being Sustainable. The Business Case for Sustainability Programs.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the shale boom even enabled the U.S. Let me just point out that more than 1.7 Last year, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced 15 criminal counts against Cabot, including nine felonies, upon the recommendation of a grand jury. million wells in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Sacrificing some revenue to sign up more customers may work for companies with the financial muscle to pull through the pandemic. The sort of cut-rate offerings being put forward by the likes of Sunrun and Sustainable Capital Finance are designed to replenish their pipelines at a time when deal-making is challenged.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2020

If we are to defeat Covid-19, achieve a global recovery, and avoid a future pandemic, then we must work together across borders," he said in a short video recorded for today's UN Financing for Development virtual meeting. "Our Our national efforts will count for little unless they are fortified by international cooperation.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Friends, let me begin by thanking our friends here in Egypt for such a warm welcome. Friends, let me begin by thanking our friends here in Egypt for such a warm welcome. Last November, the world gathered at COP26 against a fractured and fractious geopolitics, as a once-in-a-century pandemic dragged mercilessly on.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

We are not claiming that music companies, such as Spotify and CTS Eventim, are making people 'healthier' but leisure is playing an increasingly important part in the economy and has a beneficial impact on mental well-being. First let's look at Spotify. Investing in the music revolution.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

So let's make COP26 the moment we leave it in the past where it belongs, while supporting workers and communities to make the transition.". So let's make COP26 the moment we leave it in the past where it belongs, while supporting workers and communities to make the transition.". and ditch the use of coal.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

The current pandemic crisis offers a chance to reimagine our approaches to managing natural resources, argues Martin Noponen of the Rainforest Alliance. For instance, many of the world's biggest brands are set to fail to meet their 2020 deforestation commitments, despite making clear their ambition for sustainable supply chains.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

Schroders investment experts explain what impact the pandemic has had on sustainable investing and what it means for the future. The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on how companies treat their employees, protect their customers, and help guide their suppliers through a time of crisis. Will this focus on sustainability last?

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

Over the last year alone, this has included over 50 landowners and partnerships with almost 200,000 acres of land between them, and thousands of smaller-scale land managers, gardeners, individuals and local groups. The newly rewilded Lady Fen, Welney Wetland Centre, Welney, Norfolk.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The rental service is offering travel vouchers to first time hosts in a bid to encourage more people to let their rooms and homes out during the upcoming climate conference. COP26 is set to take place from 1-12 November at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, after being delayed by a year owing to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

Last September, the two teens started researching food deserts and brainstorming ideas for feeding others in their community. The teens asked the staff at each location to let them know when the eggs started to hatch so they could come help. They’ve presented their Fight the Food Desert! Raise Chickens in Urban K.C.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And when I talk about the durability of shocks, it’s because I use the example of how society responded to the COVID-19 pandemic as a lesson. Basically, what we learned from the pandemic – I quote Greta Thunberg here – society can change quickly, but it only changes quickly when people are really personally afraid.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Opposition accuses government of 'letting down flood-hit communities yet again' as new analysis suggests flood recovery grants have not been fully distributed. Labour also published a new dossier accusing the government of breaking promises to communities hit by flooding in November 2019 and February 2020.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic rightly occupying our minds, you may have missed the recent report that revealed the UK has just experienced the driest May on record and in June the temperature in the Arctic Circle hit a record 38 degrees Celsius. Similarly, the Covid-19 crisis has exposed and worsened the inequalities that exist in our city.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Last autumn, Johnson's dominance of British politics seemed unimpeachable. Boris Johnson's premiership has ended in failure, the opportunity to shape a new era of climate action squandered by a fundamental lack of seriousness. It was on the evening of November 2nd, that hubris met nemesis.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2022

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is calling on the government to invest £13.5bn over the next decade in making school buildings greener and more energy-efficient, in a move it estimates could create thousands of jobs and slash UK carbon emissions. million tonnes of annual CO2 emissions. million tonnes of annual CO2 emissions. "If

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