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Fighting Climate Change: How One Big Retailer Stacks Up

Sustainability Consulting

As we enjoy our new gifts, it’s sobering to think of packaging waste such as plastic mailers and bubble wrap adding to landfill or ending up in oceans. Our concerns about plastic and packaging usually point to online retailers, especially one of the world’s biggest: Amazon. and Canada are sending 11.5 and Canada are sending 11.5

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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 of total GHG emissions, about as much as the entire aviation sector.

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MPs table fresh legislation to 'close gaps' in UK Climate Change Act

Business Green

Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C

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NetZeroPlus: Government funding boost for plans to deliver tree-planting to an area the size of Devon

Business Green

As part of a £166m industrial decarbonisation funding package announced this morning , the government earmarked over £30m for a series of five projects designed to deliver 'negative emissions' by enhancing the UK's natural carbon sinks.

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How limited is the planet's capacity for supplying 'sustainable' biomass and biofuel?

Business Green

Left unchecked, he warned, current trends are driving unsustainable management of the planet's bioresoures that threaten to damage both the climate and the natural world, largely by driving deforestation that in turn leads to biodiversity loss and soil depletion, and reduces the natural world's ability to mitigate climate change.

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'Opportunity to reboot': Moderate Conservative MPs serve up green recovery policy menu

Business Green

It includes calls for an improved focus on green jobs training, tighter home energy efficiency standards, support for natural climate solutions such as tree planting and better soil health, accelerated clean technology development, and schemes to incentivise cycling and low carbon transport.

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The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers

GreenBiz

In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging. Close Authorship. Close Authorship.