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. .

Sustainability 539

Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 539

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

Sustainability 520

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion. There’s more.

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.

Biodiversity 41

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Government Agriculture 41

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?

Plastics 83

Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 83

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. Waste: With a 2% reduction in waste since 2015.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Organic Ethics Investment 148

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 466

Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Carbon-negative 466

Business Green

APRIL 25, 2024

This year, the theme is ‘ Planet vs Plastics'. All with the aim of meeting the three key tenets of a circular economy: eliminating waste; improving the lifecycle of devices; and supporting nature and the communities we operate in. For brands, this means designing out any negative impacts from the start.

Earth Day 41

Earth Day Plastics Carbon-negative Waste 41

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. But policies encouraging reuse, she says, will require “systemic change”.

Packaging 98

Packaging Law Europe Waste 98

Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Sustainable food management is a systematic approach that concentrates on reducing wasted food, supporting local communities and employees, and mitigating the environmental impact of operations over the complete life cycle of food items. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Waste Waste 148

Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? The bidders expressed their concern, saying it would put too much pressure on the land, and further that the waste generated by that number of people would harm the ecology of this already vulnerable ecosystem. What does this boy care about climate change?

Climate change 52

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 74

Fossil fuels Aviation Carbon-negative Plastics 74

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. raw materials, energy) and outputs (e.g.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Organic Energy Monitor 78

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?

Carbon-negative 45

Carbon-negative Plastics Recycling Recycling 45

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

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion.

Carbon-negative 36

Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fashion Upcycling 36

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The campus community diverted nearly 70 percent of all waste this past school year (up from 56 percent the previous year), thanks to student-driven recycling audits. 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

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 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

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.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

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