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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. Effective carbon pricing and climate compatible taxes are also in the works.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Today, the fashion industry is widely regarded as the second most polluting industry in the world, releasing 1.2 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 #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer focused spending programmes. per cent is likely to increase net air pollution.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario includes BAU policies as well as a higher carbon price, vehicle electrification, and mode shifting (shifting from vehicle to active and public transportation). .

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures. To begin with, our post Covid-19 recovery plans must avoid unconditionally propping up and bailing out carbon-heavy industries. Simply put: the polluter must pay. It has to be green. per cent.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

Almost half of all global coal plants are already set to run at a loss in 2020, warns think tank Carbon Tracker. Building new coal and propping up the existing fleet with stimulus money would be throwing good money after bad," said study co-author Matt Gray, Carbon Tracker's co-head of power and utilities.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’. The Citaram river in Indonesia is the most polluted river in the world.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A circular economy looks different within each industry, but its broad vision of healing the harm from the industrial economy’s extractive, polluting original sins is appealing more to a variety of businesses. Its broader sustainability targets include getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. . Elsa Wenzel.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

This study complements a previous University of Oxford working paper, Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

The process will compensate shuttering lignite, or "brown coal," plants, which are the most heavily polluting, via a flat rate. Hard coal plants, or those burning more carbon-dense and less-polluting types of coal, by contrast, will be closed via least-cost tenders. RWE is set to receive €2.6

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The global chemicals industry has a huge opportunity to transform itself from a major polluter into a "planet-positive force" that could drive decarbonisation across the wider economy over the coming decades, while doubling in size and creating 29 million new jobs in the process.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

We’ve spilled plenty of ink in this newsletter on carbon capture, but less on what happens after —particularly carbon-to-value. Downstream emissions result from the transportation and packaging involved in distribution, product usage itself (e.g., spinning, weaving, and knitting). incineration or landfills).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Plastics pollution and climate change are two of the world's foremost environmental and economic concerns, and the global oil and gas industry are a major contributor to both.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. Plastics pollution and climate change are two of the world's foremost environmental and economic concerns, and the global oil and gas industry are a major contributor to both.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

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 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. Carbon doesn’t necessarily come free, in terms of its environmental burden,” Dunn said.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2022

Churchill described the facility as "a game changer in our work to recycle more of our waste and to reduce our use of polluting plastics - cutting exports of waste and making better use of our resources".

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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. Non-organic, mono-crop agriculture damages soil, as well as using harmful pesticides and herbicides that pollute the environment and disrupt the wild food chain.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

On one side governments and the aviation industry proselytise the virtues of techno-optimism, sketching out a vision whereby a combination of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), electrification, hydrogen, efficiency gains, and negative emissions technologies allow the sector to decarbonise even as it expands.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The report also stressed that current COVID-19 recovery packages are not in line with the goals Paris Agreement and urges world leaders to commit to a green recovery that will reduce inequality by creating new green jobs, safeguarding health, and building healthier populations.

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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. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2020

With governments across the globe currently formulating packages for rescuing airlines, these agreements have widely been seen as a chance to bring the aviation industry to heel and agree to measures that can help net zero goals be met. Matching incentives to progress. It is vitally important that the carrot and the stick are closely aligned.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

It may not happen fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, but all around the world the disruption caused by increasingly cost competitive clean technologies and the growing clamour for green economic recovery packages demonstrate how net zero emission economies could emerge over the next three to four decades.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ). How can we reduce waste and prevent pollution? Products & Packaging : Do our products use sustainably sourced and eco-friendly materials? Is our packaging also safe for people and the planet?

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Readers also sought glimmers of hope in this year; you were drawn to stories about COVID-19’s positive impact on air pollution and what the sustainability field can do to be more actively anti-racist and pro-diversity. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2022

From carbon emissions via the shipping, manufacturing, and order fulfillment processes, to excess packaging on the consumer end. When it comes to eCommerce waste generation, plastic packaging is one of the industry’s most glaring issues. For emissions that can’t be reduced, look to purchase carbon offsets.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And, much like the market for carbon offsets, it’s messy. In the same way that a company’s carbon credit may offset its U.S. Sustainability practitioners have spent the past couple of decades defining and debating the role of carbon credits in the transition to a clean economy, and plastics credits are not fundamentally different.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 12, 2021

.” For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. billion focused on renewables and $18.5

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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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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Virtually all of the world’s largest companies now issue a sustainability report and set goals; more than 2,000 companies have set a science-based carbon target; and about one-third of Europe’s largest public companies have pledged to reach net zero by 2050. Maersk even advocated for a $150 per ton carbon tax on shipping fuel.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

That is the highest concentration of carbon dioxide in 800,000 years. Though the European Commission is re-drafting the Multiannual Financial Framework - aka the EU budget - the building blocks of the Green Deal look set to remain, although they will likely be re-packaged and mixed with the forthcoming Recovery Fund.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Over 90 per cent of global greenhouse emissions are now covered by net zero targets, and key clean technologies such as wind, solar, and electric vehicles are rapidly disrupting polluting industries and driving down growth projections for fossil fuel demand.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded. According to the Aluminum Association , four six-packs can hold up a two-ton vehicle thanks to the packaging’s aversion to rust, corrosion and ability to withhold carbonation pressure. Always reach for that reusable water bottle before going out!

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