GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. Some of the biggest contributors to the plastic crisis are the cosmetics and fashion industries. . Courtesy of.

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Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 540

Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Better design and reuse of buildings are crucial to cutting their carbon impact, writes Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Tansy Robertson-Fall. The built environment currently operates under a take-make-waste linear model that - for more than a century - has, and continues, to put significant pressure on the climate and biodiversity.

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Construction Waste Waste Biodiversity 39

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

Sustainability 522

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 522

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. And that remains a problem.

Carbon-negative 545

Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 545

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The new Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework should drive a step change nature protection natural world - here's why the world's new biodiversity targets matter for businesses. The 10-year plan, with its four broad goals and 23 targets, has a hugely ambitious aim: to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Agriculture 39

Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Demand for biofuels has seen significant tracts of land, much of it the Global South, repurposed for energy crop production, a trend that campaigners have blamed for driving deforestation and biodiversity destruction while exacerbating food insecurity. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 68

Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the percentage reduction in carbon emissions committed and the deadline set? I am delighted by the 'race to zero' among large and small companies setting bolder carbon targets. It mitigates its most material negative impacts, enjoys and perhaps amplifies its most material positives. And how are you judging that?

Sustainability 48

Sustainability Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Investment 48

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Eras in the Earth’s history are defined by major climactic events and distinguished through the fossil record, carbon dating, and other methods. The Holocene. The Anthropocene. The next question when determining if we have entered the Anthropocene is determining when it began.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. So could such a treaty ever work in the same way for another, interconnected, cross-border environmental crisis facing the planet: plastic pollution?

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Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 79

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

If planned wisely, population decline could, in the words of British conservationist David Attenborough, provide an opportunity to "rewild" nature by relieving major stress points upon critical ecosystems and species that could enable a gradual regeneration of biodiversity. Innovation marches forward.

Politics 471

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 471

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany — For 150 years, heavy industry has been the lifeblood of the German port of Wilhelmshaven, a hub for shipbuilding, plastics, coal and steel. This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu. It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Hydrogen Government 98

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Sustainability has become a buzzword for climate change mitigation, social responsibility, and using less plastic. Economic Sustainability.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Organic Ethics Investment 148

Business Green

APRIL 25, 2024

This year, the theme is ‘ Planet vs Plastics'. For brands, this means designing out any negative impacts from the start. Given that SIM cards play a big role in our business, this is one area in which we are taking meaningful steps to remove unnecessary plastic waste from our own chain. Innovation, therefore, is key.

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Earth Day Plastics Carbon-negative Recycling 39

Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? Besides being a hub for biodiversity, it is also home to forest-dwelling tribal communities who would be evicted from their homes and their way of life. Yet he smiled at me, telling me that he wanted to buy food with the money I would give.

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Climate change Government Education Investment 52

Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

Near-term goals set out by the plan are focused on minimising Delta's impact from single-use plastic, transitioning to electric ground service equipment, and encouraging vendors in its supply chain to develop their own climate plans. Our foundation is strong. Now we accelerate."

Fossil fuels 72

Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon-negative Plastics 72

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

But climate change is not the only ecological threat - it is widely agreed that damage to the natural environment and loss of biodiversity pose a comparable risk. Whether it is raw materials, water, flood protection, biodiversity or pollination, nature provides most of the capital businesses need for the production of goods and services.

Biodiversity 49

Biodiversity Climate change Investment Soil 49

Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

However, this tipping point is a negative one, Polman at the GreenBiz 22 event in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Tuesday. Whatever it is, if it's poverty or if it's climate change or plastics in the oceans, optimising a current system that simply is not designed anymore to deliver will only bring you so far. What would close this gap?

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Carbon-negative Plastics Recycling Recycling 42

Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Our food supply chain uses an excessive amount of land leading to biodiversity loss. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Waste Waste 148

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Plastics Climate change Agriculture 28

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It also launched a Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark to help the fashion and textile industry take action on biodiversity. Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. And that remains a problem.

Carbon-negative 36

Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 36

DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

The new EU packaging law, which was published in November, aims to tackle growth in packaging waste and single-use plastic. By 2040, the latter is expected to double in Europe, and to account for almost a fifth of the global carbon budget worldwide. But policies encouraging reuse, she says, will require “systemic change”.

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Packaging Law Europe Waste 98

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 frameworks Environmental management system (EMS) An environmental management system aims to reduce the negative impacts a business has on the environment by integrating policy, procedures, and processes for measuring, analyzing, and reporting an organization’s impact on the natural world.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Organic Energy Monitor 78

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles. They are model schools that are leading the way not only for academia but for governments and businesses.

Cooling 52

Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 52

AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

If planned wisely, population decline could, in the words of British conservationist David Attenborough, provide an opportunity to “rewild” nature by relieving major stress points upon critical ecosystems and species that could enable a gradual regeneration of biodiversity.

Politics 36

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Climate change 36

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. The 2021 World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report identifies extreme weather, climate action failure, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases as top risks in terms of both likelihood and impact.

Technology 147

Technology Climate change Biodiversity Sustainability 147

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Absolutely.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overall, it was more positives than negatives. Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. But there's a long way to go.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Biodiversity 36

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. O boy, was I triggered. We can make exactly the same things and do the same stuff with biomass, it does not have to be made from a fossil source. (6)

Building Energy Monitoring 78

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 78

Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

According to Carbon Trackers , we are talking about a value of between 14-129 trillion dollars for fossil fuel assets alone and revenue streams of trillions of dollars annually. This scenario is referred to by some as the ‘carbon crunch’. Though this might seem ridiculous now, so was a negative oil price until only a month ago.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78