GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? The other thing that happened, I won a competition in Warsaw for a skyscraper right before the change of government; I had designed a building.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The green economy operates on low carbon power sources, resource efficiency, and social fairness and inclusivity. Replate’s circular model not only makes it easy for any business to reduce their carbon footprint and give back, but it has also created new jobs by inviting those in the community to apply to become food rescuers.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails Heather Clancy Fri, 09/04/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (4:08). It’s time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain What does “climate risk” actually mean ? UL and HP Inc.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Tip #5: Switch to sustainable shipping and packaging. Your customers will appreciate the fact that they can sustainably dispose of packaging materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The UK waste sector can be an enabler of wider economic decarbonisation while delivering the government's 'levelling up' agenda, writes Viridor's Tim Rotheray. That was the stark message of the Climate Change Committee in its sixth carbon budget. The government is determined to demonstrate 'global Britain' is more than a soundbite.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Reflecting on the climate crisis, the devastating rates of bio-diversity loss and the suffocating flow of plastics into the ocean, I feel a sense of overwhelm. Alongside government and civil society, business plays a key part in this reinvention. Sustainability and regeneration have never been so high on the business agenda.

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Retail Plastics Carbon-negative Sustainability 68

Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 billion tons (37.1 billion tons (37.1

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

"If we're going to make sure that we're using more recycled content, if we're going to ensure that we're going to reduce carbon emissions, then we need to be tracking that. Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. Food is often packaged in unnecessary plastic or other non-sustainable packaging – posing a waste problem of massive proportions. Yet, at present, this is not the case.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

The discussion around what most now call “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance) has become far more common than I’ve ever seen in my 20 years in the field. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel. Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. Labs also send massive amounts of water down the drain and discard possibly billions of pounds of single-use plastics every year. Its Green Lab Certification already has labeled more than 400 labs. million two-liter soda bottles each year. .

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate litigation "has influenced the outcome and ambition of climate governance". Plastics, packaging and other forms of waste are also on the docket, as are companies' ESG marketing claims. Law and disorder.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

I was particularly interested in the discussions around plastic packaging and waste throughout the event. Plastic pollution is a problem greatly impacting the health of NYC waterways. While leading Park Over Plastic, we have faced innovation gaps or times when there isn’t a viable replacement for some single-use plastics.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. per cent lower than in the previous year, according to government statistics.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? The other thing that happened, I won a competition in Warsaw for a skyscraper right before the change of government; I had designed a building.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Like many organizations, School Specialty initially focused on low-hanging fruit such as recycling of paper, cardboard, electronics, ink toner, batteries, lightbulbs, and plastic throughout their office spaces and packaging departments. Duro Cleaners also decided to take a stand against plastic waste.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The specific criteria set by the ESG framework endeavor to define environmental, social, and governance systems as sustainable. Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Despite all the negativity, one of the silver linings emerging from the pandemic is how it has hit the reset button on nature. In the first four months of the year, carbon dioxide emissions declined by 17 per cent compared to the average levels in 2019. This time the seasonal effect overlapped with lockdowns.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

From nurturing ocean carbon sinks to encouraging marine clean tech, there are steps all businesses can take to accelerate progress towards SDG14. The transboundary nature of the seas can make effective government action difficult, as policy initiatives inevitably get bogged down in interminable negotiations and geopolitical power-plays.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Paris Olympics plans to halve carbon footprint of meals served at the Games. Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet this week unveiled the catering strategy for the upcoming Olympic Games in the French capital, revealing a goal to halve the average carbon footprint of meals served during the Games. Climate Overshoot Commission appointed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the early hours of Monday morning, a new global pact for nature was agreed by the vast majority of the world's governments. The ecosystem services that underpin the global economy should recover, providing greater climate resilience, enhanced natural carbon sinks, and improved food and water security.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Types: Design & Materials, Next-Gen Packaging, Business Model Innovation. How Capital Markets Can Support a More Sustainable Plastics Economy How can the capital markets and major financial institutions help corporates, governments and investors tackle global plastic waste? Rates Increase Feb. But why Morgan Stanley?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

For more than a decade, Mills has raised questions about cannabis sustainability, starting with its prodigious energy use but extending to a broader range of environmental, social and governance impacts. Those indoor operations also share some of the same negative impacts as cannabis, although, according to Mills, "cannabis is more severe.".

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. Labs also send massive amounts of water down the drain and discard possibly billions of pounds of single-use plastics every year. “It’s been ignored by the green building world a little bit because it’s difficult to address.

Plastics 28

Plastics Sustainability Recycling Recycling 28

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. Governments, business leaders, and consultants across the globe are sitting up and taking action to address our environmental crisis. million tons less of carbon dioxide than it did before COVID-19.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole. Myisha Majumder.

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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. Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. 400+ sessions.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

While companies such as Amazon, Nestlé, and Unilever have set targets for carbon neutrality, Microsoft just announced that it will become carbon negative by around 2030, and remove all the carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975.

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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

AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

. “I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun,” he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 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. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that if governments continue with current policies, global demand will reach 121 million b/d by 2040.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

Aligning economic stimulus and policy packages with climate goals is crucial for a long-term viable and healthy economy. 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.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Investment 78