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

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. million in Neighborhood Grants. LinkedIn | Personal website.

Sustainability 524

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 524

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

READ THE FULL STORY: How cosmetics retailer Lush is making purposeful profit through circular processes & Fashion's latest trend? 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. Media Source.

Sustainability 540

Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 540

Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Nick Mabey, chief executive of E3G, said: "Ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, this Budget was a missed opportunity by failing to set out an unequivocal direction of travel towards a green, zero carbon future. The Chancellor has dropped the green recovery ball before the try line.".

Building Energy Monitoring 65

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Home Energy Monitoring 65

Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

These various initiatives are set to be complemented by new incentives to encourage the sector to make use of surplus heat and CO2 from industrial processes, as well as on-going efforts to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies in order to cut on-farm energy costs and carbon emissions.

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Government Agriculture Carbon-negative Policy 36

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Greentown Labs is already working closely with the City of Houston to support the goals outlined in its first-ever Climate Action Plan , which includes a commitment of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Microsoft’s VP Energy Industry Darryl Willis will join Greentown Houston’s Founding Advisory Board. “As

Incubators 98

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say. It’s fossil fuel madness.”.

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Natural gas Fossil fuels Hydrogen Government 98

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In Jordan, the EBRD’s technical support and a 2015 loan worth up to $21 million helped poultry company Al Jazeera Agricultural Company upgrade its facilities and expand its retail presence. Al Jazeera claims to produce half the country’s restaurant-sold chicken. as clients. In West and Southern Africa, the rate was substantially higher. “As

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 96

Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

The global food system is complex, requiring inputs from a diverse set of industries, such as agriculture, transportation logistics, plus marketing, and retail. 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.

Sustainability 148

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More than 50 businesses and organisations from across the UK's farming, food, and retail sectors have today urged the government to accelerate and strengthen the delivery of its embattled, post-Brexit green farming subsidy programme so as to build a "productive, regenerative, and resilient food system into the future".

Demand 36

Demand Agriculture Government Resilience 36

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

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

READ THE FULL STORY: How cosmetics retailer Lush is making purposeful profit through circular processes & Fashion’s latest trend? 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.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Plastics Climate change Agriculture 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. million in Neighborhood Grants.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. The business was bought by external investors in 1991 at a time when the retail clothing sector was consolidating.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. All of these corporate efforts, on paper at least, promise to both conserve nature and capture millions of tonnes of CO2.

Biodiversity 89

Biodiversity Carbon-negative Politics Agriculture 89

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Peatlands have been storing carbon and reducing the amount released into our atmosphere for millions of years. They cover just three per cent of the world's surface, but capture 30 per cent of the world's carbon. That means every bag of peat-based compost has a negative environmental impact. 2020 has been a year of disruption.

Climate change 40

Climate change Carbon-negative Retail Biodiversity 40

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The biggest national-level news of the week came out of the United Nations General Assembly, where Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the country aims to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. This gesture commits them to reaching a net-zero carbon footprint by 2040, one decade before the deadline for the Paris Agreement. .

Retail 529

Retail Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Waste 529

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

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The biggest national-level news of the week came out of the United Nations General Assembly, where Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that the country aims to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. This gesture commits them to reaching a net zero carbon footprint by 2040, one decade before the deadline for the Paris Agreement.

Retail 56

Retail Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Waste 56