Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Company becomes first jewellery firm to join Science Based Targets Initiative with pledge to become 'carbon neutral' by 2025. Specifically, the Denmark-headquartered company said it has set a target to become 'carbon neutral' across its own options by 2025.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

By Leanna Tang and Andrew Howell, CFA High-integrity carbon credits can play an important part in enhancing climate action, but their role in corporate sustainability strategies has come under scrutiny over the last year.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation released new rese arch evaluating California’s climate progress and identifying a policy pathway that would reaffirm California as a climate leader. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. By Olivia Ashmoore.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. More and more businesses are disclosing their carbon footprint due to increased stakeholder pressure and as a response to climate change. . 18 ways business leaders can lower their carbon footprint .

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

The government is expected to launch a consultation on the proposals, which broadly mirror plans already being pursued by the EU in a bid to create a 'level playing field' for the bloc's carbon intensive industries.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The first Drinks Industry Sustainability Index – Trends Report 2020 analyses the extent to which the drinks industry is adopting sustainable strategies and practices for packaging, waste, water, emissions, energy, social impact and raw materials. Openly engaging with consumer concerns about plastic and packaging.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

The analysis, which looked at more than 3,500 fiscal policies across the world's 50 largest economies, finds that just 2.5 billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9 percent of all COVID-induced spending to date had "positive green characteristics." percent is likely to increase net air pollution. Meanwhile, $86.1

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 4, 2022

Operating across the San Francisco Bay and Minneapolis metropolitan areas, Mulberrys Garment Care is a luxury dry cleaner that prides itself on its carbon neutral and eco-friendly practices. They even wrap customers’ clothing in recyclable, biodegradable packaging. Policy Makes The Difference. Net-Zero Champions.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This week, Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLC® and the Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP) released the latest China Energy Policy Simulator (EPS) , an open-souce and peer-reviewed model that estimates the environmental, economic, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate and energy policies up to 2060.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

Arguing that EU citizens "must be at the heart of the recovery strategy", moreover, the resolution calls for the recovery package to help fight against tax evasion and tax avoidance, and urges the Commission to ensure State Aid guidelines are compatible with these green and social conditions.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. More and more businesses are disclosing their carbon footprint due to increased stakeholder pressure and as a response to climate change. . 18 ways business leaders can lower their carbon footprint .

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The IEA has released its annual review of Hungary’s energy policy, stating that energy efficiency needs to be central in the coming years for the European country to reach its net zero targets, The Hungary 2022 Energy Policy Review states how Hungary has significantly increased its climate ambitions since the last review.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 19, 2022

EU agrees sweeping reform package for its emissions trading scheme fuelling hopes it could help accelerate decarbonisation efforts globally. The European Parliament and European Council finalised an agreement on the proposed package early on Sunday morning, paving the way for new targets and rules to be passed into law in the coming weeks.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. The definition of fleet is evolving.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I've been writing about the UK climate policy landscape for 15 years and I genuinely can't recall a reaction like it. Where does this rank in the halls of climate policy infamy? Those are just a tiny fraction of the furious responses to the government's decision to approve plans for the UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years.

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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. We call this, sustainable eCommerce. Reducing waste: Tips and tricks.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this article, we explain the net-zero meaning, what it takes to be a net-zero business, low/zero emissions business practices that you should know, and skepticism around carbon offsetting. The GHG Protocol developed three carbon emission scopes to help organizations map out their direct and indirect emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

CLG Europe brings together influential European businesses which share the aim of delivering climate neutrality through "progressive public policy". However, in joining the group Microsoft said it will step up its efforts to support the EU's goal "to become the world's first climate-neutral continent".

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Prime Minister says commitment to net zero transition is 'undiminished' and tells MPs the aviation sector should look to curb CO2 emissions once flights resume, as pressure mounts on EU for green stimulus package. Aviation like every other sector must keep its carbon lower.".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

G20 leaders must develop clear policy and regulatory frameworks to enable the business community to help accelerate the transition to a carbon neutral world, according to a new set of recommendations published yesterday by some of the world's top business leaders.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed into law a bipartisan mandate that will require the state to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The Carbon Plan" will then be reviewed every two years and may be adjusted. Follow @EngelsAngle. North Carolina Gov. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 4, 2022

Operating across the San Francisco Bay and Minneapolis metropolitan areas, Mulberrys Garment Care is a luxury dry cleaner that prides itself on its carbon neutral and eco-friendly practices. They even wrap customers’ clothing in recyclable, biodegradable packaging. Policy Makes The Difference. Net-Zero Champions.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

Brussels launches major package of accelerated decarbonisation measures, including tax reforms, new clean energy targets, and carbon border tariffs. Europe was the first continent to declare to be climate neutral in 2050, and now we are the very first ones to put a concrete roadmap on the table.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

” The key electoral battleground for energy and climate policy looks to be the Senate, where a third of the seats are up for grabs, most of them held by Republicans. Meanwhile, the federal government’s carbon-reduction policy abdication has been counteracted by state-level action.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

What we urgently need to see next is an ambitious implementation of the recovery package focussed on achieving a green and digital transition, with the European Green Deal at its core and an elevated short-term emissions reduction target in its sights," states the letter, which has been signed by 157 corporate leaders and 21 business networks.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Indeed, the European Green Deal programme aimed at transitioning Europe to become the world's first climate neutral continent by 2050 has been a major driving force behind the pandemic recovery and budget agreement.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

The new analysis comes at a critical juncture for EU climate policy, with the European Commission having proposed enhancing the EU's 2030 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent across the continent from a 1990 baseline, on the pathway to becoming 'climate neutral' by 2050.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The European Union and its Member States have been frontrunners in establishing ambitious climate policy. It produces over two million tons of low carbon cement annually and is responsible for around 10-15% of the cement supply in the markets in which it operates. Of these plastics, around 36% are used in packaging.

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Business Green

APRIL 26, 2021

Last week, the UK government announced it will count emissions from international shipping and aviation in its carbon accounting from 2033, caving to long-running pressure from campaigners and climate experts. Some progress has been made.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The industry claims it can produce climate-friendly “blue hydrogen” from natural gas using carbon capture, a nascent technology still in early development. In response to interview requests from OpenSecrets, the American Petroleum Institute shared a study it commissioned “on the benefits of low-carbon hydrogen.”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2020

In the latest addition to the library of studies that has underscored the benefits of a 'green recovery' to the coronavirus pandemic, economists have today published a new research detailing how stimulus packages that invest in low carbon technologies and infrastructure will generate more income, jobs, and GDP than traditional recovery measures.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. In the North East, the Zero Carbon Humber coalition has been granted £21m and the Humber Zero project £12m to develop hydrogen and CCUS infrastructure.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 7, 2020

When it comes to implementing recyclable materials, it’s easy to switch to eco-friendly packaging and mailing supplies if your business hasn’t already done so. These financial rewards differ depending on your state and other policies, but you can do a quick check by browsing the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Wide-ranging proposals for a new Industrial Strategy to help the EU lead "twin transitions towards climate neutrality and digital leadership" have been unveiled in Brussels, as the European Commission pushes forward with its flagship Green Deal vision.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

that focus on some of the more visible, day-to-day sustainability and environmental problems like waste, pollution and carbon emissions. Companies need to be informed as new policies are enacted across the globe and ensure their practices abide by these changes. Energy Use and Carbon Emissions. Similarly, the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

The announcement of the policy package is part of a new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy that will be published later today, the government revealed. In the North East, the Zero Carbon Humber coalition has been granted £21m and the Humber Zero project £12m to develop hydrogen and CCUS infrastructure.

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