The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And consider – after the US and China, wasted food is the third-largest carbon dioxide generator in the world. Between 8% and 10% of the world’s carbon emissions result from all these unconsumed products. billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHGs) equivalent to carbon dioxide are emitted annually due to food waste.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Kimberly-Clark said its new targets would see it cut its carbon, forest, and water footprint, as well as its use of virgin fossil fuel based plastics by 50 per cent within 10 years. The carbon emissions targets have been approved as being in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement by the independent Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Building on the foundations of past conferences, especially Paris, to create a zero-carbon economy which will benefit our children and grandchildren. ??. In Glasgow, the world must ramp up momentum towards a zero-carbon economy. Agreeing a package that delivers the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process forward.??

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

The move makes it the only UK juice or smoothie brand using 100 per cent recycled plastic packaging, manufacturer PepsiCo claims. Similar pacts are also underway in countries across Latin America, Europe, and Africa.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

UK, Germany, South Korea among nations offering up green stimulus measures but these are still dwarfed by carbon-intensive bailouts, according to Vivid Economics. Across 17 major economies, announced stimulus packages will pump trillions of dollars directly into sectors that have a large and lasting negative impact on nature.".

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails Heather Clancy Fri, 09/04/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (4:08). Today’s carbon-negative fuel. Read more here: Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The group has set a target of unlocking $100bn in public and private capital to improve access to clean power across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It said the investment would help reach one billion people with reliable, renewable energy, avoid four billion tons of carbon emissions, and create, enable, or improve 150 million jobs.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

The good news is that new technologies and methods have come about making it possible for the manufacturing industry to reduce its environmental footprint through energy conservation , alternative packaging, and smarter storage and organization (amongst other solutions). Tip #3: Use alternative and sustainable packaging solutions.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 16, 2022

The budget will be used to promote clean energy, environmental justice and to cut carbon emissions. US Senate passes Inflation Reduction Act to energy industry applause SEF Weekly: $369bn US clean energy package and energy interconnection. On the other hand, the American one will expand to other countries (mainly sub-Saharan Africa).

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

into climate solutions and will spearhead the development of 15 transformative technologies crucial for heating and cooling our homes, reimagining critical resource extraction, advancing carbon removal and transforming our food system. The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I was testing what financing owners of small and medium businesses need in Africa; I talked to so many and did a lot of market research interviews, and it kept coming down to energy,” she says. gigatons of carbon by 2050 (through supporting the use of renewables) and can sequester 2.2 megatons of carbon in the same period.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Sappi is a leading global provider of dissolving pulp and of everyday biobased materials created from renewable resources, from packaging paper to biomaterials such as nanocellulose. In South Africa, she explains, Sappi owns and leases 964,000 acres of land, of which about a third is managed for biodiversity conservation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We look at one successful partnership in South Africa, between the global packaging and paper group Mondi and WWF. Plantation forestry is the only crop in South Africa that is regulated by the government due to its declaration as a significant ‘stream flow reduction activity' and because of the water risk they present.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

And yet, opportunities exist through climate-friendly recovery packages to not only stimulate economies, but also reduce emissions while promoting social and environmental co-benefits. Habitat restoration and regenerative agriculture, especially in carbon-rich habitats. Hepburn et al.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Achieving this would allow green hydrogen to start to reach fossil parity, representing one of the most significant achievement for zero-emission solutions and a carbon neutral planet.". kg from low cost renewable power, already within 2025. Canadian firms sign up to new Plastics Pact.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The boom was supported by post-Covid stimulus investment packages, especially in Europe, and loose financing conditions for international project finance worldwide," the report said. Latin American and the Caribbean and Africa had 150 and 100 projects, respectively. Total project values in 2021 were twice the pre-pandemic level.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Over recent years, Dow has explored the ways in which we can support the plastic waste challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa; increasing recycling rates while also supporting jobs and livelihoods of waste collectors, and using key partnerships as a showcase for this intersection of business and social justice.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The tech giant is increasingly confident it can, and this week unveiled a sweeping package of new investments and initiatives designed to slash emissions across its sprawling global supply chain. We're looking forward to continued partnership with our suppliers to make Apple's supply chain carbon neutral by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 26, 2021

As a result of the signed financing package, ACWA Power will receive $114 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Arab Bank.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Sourdough starters, Zoom drinks, online theatre, Joe Wicks' PE sessions, Netflix… whatever it is, and whatever combination, in whatever time you happen to have available to you, it seems as though we've all been putting together our own package of coping mechanisms. The magnificent Llandudno mountain goats were my favourite.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

And, in addition to exploring the potential of a free trade agreement between the two nations, the agreement includes a number of commitments specifically focused on low carbon development, such as enhancing cooperation on carbon markets and CO2 pricing. The South Africa Just Energy Transition partnership is a great example of this.

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

According to reports from Euractiv this week , the Commission is considering strengthening the EU's renewable energy target for 2030 as it looks to finalise the package. solution to multiple industry sectors with a high carbon footprint.". Study: Climate change made South African floods 'twice as likely'. paves the way towards an?effective?European

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And this all happened despite our very low carbon footprints. Ghana's President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, meanwhile, called for a "radical restructuring of global financial architecture" and warned that "no one will win if Africa loses". We need to act with courage, urgency and solidarity to solve climate issues."

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK government will today announce a new £290m funding package to bolster climate resilience and adaptation measures in developing countries, as it hosts a meeting of ministers from around the world to discuss how to further boost flows of climate adaptation funding. That is deeply unjust.".

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

All that unconsumed food also accounts for vast amounts of carbon emissions from wasted production resources, adding up to around 6% of total global emissions. And in particularly poverty-stricken regions like parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, there is an even greater difference. trillion pounds each year. of the population affected).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . Otherwise, you may address the program from the wrong angle.".

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Globally, more than a quarter of the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change come from the growing and processing of food. you cannot dictate a specific package of practices on all farms globally. A potato farm in Lichtenburg, South Africa is very different from one in Idaho in the US or the British town of Scarborough.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Through the deployment of smart electric grids, we can reduce carbon emissions from the utility industry by 25%.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Small and medium businesses generate 63 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions from business in Europe, according to the European Commission. Others have invested in green shipping: The co-founder of Glasgow-based gourmet honey brand BeeHype, Stela Aleksieva, uses paper packaging over cheaper bubble wrap. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

We're currently developing a 5GW pipeline across Europe, Africa and Latin America, and are on site constructing more than 600MW of solar capacity in Spain and the Netherlands. We call for all post-Covid stimulus packages to come with stringent carbon strings attached.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new funding package for the 2020 to 2025 period does mark an increase on previous levels of climate finance, but the failure to meet the 2020 deadline was still widely interpreted as a major blow to the long-running international climate negotiations that are set to resume at next week's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The previous timetable for updating NDCs would have meant they would only have been improved once or maybe twice before the available carbon budget for 1.5C A precedent is being set with a new loss and damage framework taking shape and the first, albeit modest, funding packages being announced. of warming was completely burned through.

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