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. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Business leaders and environmental campaigners hail the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework as a major - if flawed - breakthrough for nature protection efforts. BusinessGreen rounds up the initial reaction to the historic new accord.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The John Lewis Partnership has committed to ensuring the soy, palm oil, cocoa, beef, leather, timber, and man-made cellulosic materials in its own-brand products do not cause deforestation, as part of a new package of measures announced this morning designed to help nature and reduce carbon emissions.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Defra unveils sweeping package of biodiversity and habitat policies, designed to halt species decline and trigger £500m tree planting programme.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

The European Commission's latest package of classifications for sustainable finance activity published today have been labelled a "crucial" step in the EU's ongoing efforts to tackle greenwashing and meet its 2050 net zero goals by leading investment figures. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Every industry needs to do their part if vital climate and biodiversity goals are to be achieved. More than three billion trees are razed annually - many from the world's most carbon and biodiversity-rich ecosystems - by the fashion industry to make everyday items, such as clothing and takeout containers.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Natural England Chair Tony Juniper said the new package was "broad and most welcome and important". He also warned that the government was continuing to pursue its Retained EU Law Bill, which could see thousands of environmental protection laws modified or removed at the end of the year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. A total of 18 states are said to back a call for a reassessment of pesticide laws. We need to look at the interests behind that. Their agenda?

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Eco-bonus' Italian recovery package promises solar panel rebate. The decree has come into immediate effect, although the Italian parliament will have 60 days after the initial publication of the measures to introduce amendments to the law. French auto rescue package promises EV surge.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The government has today unveiled its hotly-anticipated suite of legally-binding environmental targets for England, confirming a sweeping package of goals to reverse species loss, increase tree cover, reduce waste, and tackle air and water pollution over the next two decades. Weakening these targets is an embarrassment and a betrayal.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Just days after the Environment Agency released a damning assessment of the water industry's continuing failure to tackle sewage overflows and other serious pollution incidents, the government yesterday launched its latest package of measures to tackle water pollution across England.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

In a statement to mark World Environment Day, the Prime Minister said that while countries were rightly focused on combatting the pandemic, it was critical not to lose sight of the need to protect the planet "from the devastating threat of climate change and biodiversity loss".

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Calls for the government to match its ambitious goals with stronger regulations to crack down on pollution and greater investment in nature recovery are only set to mount as the Chancellor preps his first Budget and the government proceeds with its controversial plans to strip out EU law from the UK's statute book.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

Ruling on a case brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth, and the Good Law Project, Mr Justice Holgate agreed the strategy lacked sufficient explanation or quantification as to how the decarbonisation plans set out in the Net Zero Strategy published last autumn would achieve emissions targets for the 2030s and beyond.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

When the so called HYV seeds varieties were introduced, touted as miracle seeds the only catch was that it came with a package of chemical fertilizers, without which they could not perform their ‘miracle’. 1] Vijay Jarhdhari , ”Barahnaja: Traditional Biodiverse Crop System in Uttarakhand”, Pg.114. Way forward (conculsion).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets. Political Connections.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

MPs are urging the government to use the upcoming Budget to usher in a major transformation of the tax system to align the UK's spending plans with its net zero and biodiversity commitments, warning time is running short to deliver on its promise of a green economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Societal collapse doesn’t seem to necessarily mean the end of everything, though, as in: the breakdown of law and order, and the sort of Hobbesian world depicted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. There is also much more processing and packaging involved. Climate Adaptation is published by the Arkbound Foundation , and costs £10.99.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Hungary approves net zero law and issues green bond. Hungary has become the latest country to pass net zero legislation, after the national parliament this week approved a law that establishes a 2050 climate neutrality goal for the central European state. Plus all the top green business news from around the world this week.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

Scientists tell us that we’ve pushed the planet beyond its ability to support us in critical areas such as availability of water, biodiversity, and, of course, carbon emissions. But these new rules also demand discussion of impacts on water, biodiversity, human rights, and more. But the EU is just one player.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Moreover, Estée Lauder Companies also has declared its intention to make 75 percent to 100 percent of its packaging recyclable, refillable, reusable, recycled or recoverable by 2025 — the strategy will depend on the needs of individual brands. Clancy: Can you share your vision for sustainable packaging? OK, there's tax incentives.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As part of the recently-adopted Environment Act, the government is seeking to make it illegal for larger UK companies to use, buy or import certain forest-risk commodities that have not been produced in line with relevant local laws around the world. °C," she said.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Moreover, Estée Lauder Companies also has declared its intention to make 75 percent to 100 percent of its packaging recyclable, refillable, reusable or recoverable by 2025 — the strategy will depend on the needs of individual brands. Clancy: Can you share your vision for sustainable packaging? What does government bring to the table?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On top of that, she will also take control of the UK's net zero and biodiversity agendas as Europe struggles with an energy crisis largely spurred by the Russia's invasion of Ukraine and countries around the world gear up for the crucial COP27 and COP15 UN summits this autumn.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The perfume will enjoy a limited run every year, in line with the availability of its raw materials, and each bottle is packaged with detailed information on its ingredients. We hope that becomes a benchmark for industry to learn how to operate within communities, who are the true guardians of biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2023

Highly Commended: Elbow Beach Capital Small Business of the Year Frugalpac In one of the most competitive categories, Frugalpac won over the judges with its ambitious plans to decarbonise food and drink packaging, its impressive range of recyclable, low carbon, paper-based cups and bottles, and its fast-expanding client base.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

What started as a farm-led movement to reduce the amount of chemical inputs used on crops became a moneymaker for farmers, supermarkets and consumer packaged goods companies, while also supposedly being better for the planet, but even that is disputed. Do they have the law behind them? Do they provide some third-party assurance?

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

Buildings: The report claims the emissions-intensive buildings sector can achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions if policy packages that promote sufficiency, efficiency, and renewable energy measures are effectively implemented and barriers to decarbonisation are removed. Economy-wide' policy packages.

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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. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country? for every dollar spent on healthcare costs.

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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

The resulting lack of biodiversity can make forests less resilient in the face of pest pressure and major climate events. You cannot grow a forest, or at least not a biodiverse and healthy forest, in the presence of these large deer numbers,” Blossey said. A box is filled with venison packaged by a meat processor.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

The new Carbon Budget is expected to then be enshrined in law by the end of June 2021. Government analysis finds that costs of action on climate change are outweighed by the significant benefits - reducing polluting emissions, as well as bringing fuel savings, improvements to air quality and enhancing biodiversity," Number 10 said.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

Moreover, Estée Lauder Companies also has declared its intention to make 75 percent to 100 percent of its packaging recyclable, refillable, reusable, recycled or recoverable by 2025 — the strategy will depend on the needs of individual brands. Clancy: Can you share your vision for sustainable packaging? What does business bring?

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

Moreover, Estée Lauder Companies also has declared its intention to make 75 percent to 100 percent of its packaging recyclable, refillable, reusable or recoverable by 2025 — the strategy will depend on the needs of individual brands. Clancy: Can you share your vision for sustainable packaging? What does government bring to the table?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Mattel seeks for all products and packaging to comprise recycled or recyclable materials by 2030, and in June it brought sugarcane-plastic toddler stacking rings to market.

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