The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. The purity of recycled materials can be increased using these systems to distinguish and isolate various plastic types according to their chemical makeup. There is a lot of latent energy in our waste.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

The fashion industry is on course to take-up 25 per cent of the world's carbon budget, yet despite this huge impact, the UK government is failing to tackle the negative impact of fashion. A strong need for government leadership. More positively, the government did introduce the Modern Slavery Act in 2015,?although

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 00:15.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. RECYCLED PLASTIC. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Prevent ocean waste from plastic netting. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. In 2018 Carbon Engineering founder David Keith – a physicist at Harvard – explained how it could be done for $94 to $232, writing in the journal Joule.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Energy giant to work with Econic to pioneer new uses for trapped carbon. Energy giant Drax is pushing forward with its plans to develop a new generation of carbon capture, usage and storage technologies at its power plants, yesterday announcing a partnership with Econic Technologies to develop new uses for its stored carbon.

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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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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change. Will the UK government follow a similar approach?

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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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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 8, 2021

Visionary British female entrepreneurs are receiving government backing to drive forward their novel innovations and business ideas. Dr Emma Fieldhouse (46) from Leicester, set up Future We Want, a sustainability consultancy to help teach people about climate change and carbon footprinting. Dr Emma Fieldhouse. Jacqueline Morrison.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. Steelmakers worldwide are facing mounting pressure from government regulators and consumers to decarbonize operations. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

The argument goes that biofuels produced using sustainable feedstocks and low carbon processes can enable rapid emissions reductions in the short to medium-term, because they seamlessly integrate with existing fossil fuel infrastructure and can be mixed with existing gasoline, diesel, or kerosene. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Indeed, the ingredients for negativity are all too abundant: a persistent, shapeshifting virus; political stalemates that thwart climate action; growing social and economic inequality; terrifying ecological indicators; pushback by the anti-science crowd and their media enablers.

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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. In May, the government passed legislation to accelerate the deployment by relaxing planning rules. The government has portrayed the LNG terminals as stopgap measures.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, Boston-based Trillium Asset Management is using a selection of environmental, social, and governance factors to identify companies that are in a good position for strong long-term performance. ESG (environment, social, and governance) and sustainability are two popular terms that are floated around the corporate sphere.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

In order to limit the negative environmental impact, prudent businesses are seeking ways to address the top environmental issues in the construction industry: Improper waste disposal and management with very little recycling. Carbon emissions from operations, vehicles and material engineering. Reduce Waste and Use Recycled Materials.

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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. Weird Fish has jumped on the sustainable packaging train, announcing that eco grass paper bags will replace plastic bags in their 17 store locations.

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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

JUNE 17, 2021

The policy brief, dubbed Brexit Implications for UK Decarbonisation Objectives , concludes the ongoing effort to disentangle UK governance from EU laws and regulations is currently hampering efforts to meet the UK's net zero emission goals.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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. Microsoft , JetBlue and Royal Dutch Shell are among those seeking to offset a portion of their carbon footprint by investing in forest protection and reforestation.

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Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies. Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Half an hour's drive from Reykjavik, several racks of giant fans are erected on billboard-sized metal blocks, primed and ready to suck carbon dioxide from the cold Icelandic air. Mimicking a carbon storage process that happens in nature, Carbfix's technology mixes captured CO2 with warm water and then injects it deep underground.

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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. The human cost of food growth and production.

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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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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. A majority of this results from the production of cement, steel, aluminium, and plastic.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It’s time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain What does “climate risk” actually mean ? Today’s carbon-negative fuel. Why placing environment, social and governance principles at the center of COVID-19 recovery places makes sense for resilience and the bottom line.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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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. Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. . said Anna Marciano, head of U.S. legal sustainability at Nestlé USA. "If

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

It is incumbent upon all of us to alter our lifestyles to address this threat, and it is the responsibility of every government to do everything they can to reverse this trend, in spite of the temporary but necessary cost to quality of life. What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? The environment was enthusiastic.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Dame Ellen MacArthur, founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which has been instrumental in catalyzing collective corporate action to address key circular economy issues such as plastics and food waste, kicked off the conference. Today's carbon-negative fuel. Join the webcast at 1 p.m. ESG values and a sustainable future.

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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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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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