We must examine the connection between packaging and climate change
GreenBiz
APRIL 30, 2024
Companies should think more holistically about the link between packaging and carbon.
Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19
GreenBiz
MARCH 1, 2021
Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. During our conversation, we also discussed Ellis’ long-term CSR priorities, the company’s packaging goals and its partnership with Loop. One of those is reducing plastics in Boots-owned brand packaging, in line with the UK Plastics Pact 2025. Deonna Anderson.
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Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train
GreenBiz
JUNE 18, 2021
Companies are jumping aboard the federal packaging and recycling policy train. With an aggressive national recycling target (50 percent by 2030); a renewed White House focus on climate change; and clamor for consistent state rules around cutting trash, the federal sustainability policy train is leaving the station.
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Dundee to host conference on climate change science and law
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2019
Scotland will host world-leading experts in climate change law and science in September, as they attend a major conference on global climate at the University of Dundee. Climate change is happening now and not only in a far-away future.
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The Dirty Five: The Worst Companies Contributing to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change
U.S. Green Technology
MAY 17, 2023
The post The Dirty Five: The Worst Companies Contributing to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change appeared first on U.S. These companies have. Green Technology.
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Reasons Why More Brands Are Moving Towards Sustainable Packaging
The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 7, 2021
We’re all increasingly aware of the dramatic consequences of climate change and how humanity’s actions are directly having a visible, tangible effect on the health of our world. It won’t solve the problem on its own, but choosing less wasteful packaging is a good step to take if you want your brand to play its part.
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What’s the Role for New Nuclear Power in the Fight Against Climate Change?
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 8, 2021
Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets. don’t think so.
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Fighting Climate Change: How One Big Retailer Stacks Up
Sustainability Consulting
JANUARY 6, 2021
As we enjoy our new gifts, it’s sobering to think of packaging waste such as plastic mailers and bubble wrap adding to landfill or ending up in oceans. Our concerns about plastic and packaging usually point to online retailers, especially one of the world’s biggest: Amazon. and Canada are sending 11.5 and Canada are sending 11.5
Australia fast tracks critical transmission projects with $5.3bn package
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 4, 2023
Commonwealth and New South Wales (NSW) have announced an extensive investment package of AU$7.8 Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen added, commenting on the importance of the deal to support such critical projects and plug Snowy 2.0 – the largest committed renewable energy project in Australia – into the grid.
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Greatest Benefits of Using Compostable Packaging
Green Living Guy
AUGUST 11, 2020
With the threat of climate change, many countries around the world have been taking strong measures to contain its expansion and prevent it from becoming the real threat that many scientists are predicting, by replacing some common products with a more eco-friendly version of it. One of the greatest examples Continue Reading.
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How to Decrease Your Carbon Footprint with Your Business’s Packaging?
U.S. Green Technology
AUGUST 15, 2022
As climate change starts to impact our planet more and more every year, businesses need to be good environmental stewards and take steps to reduce their impact on the planet. The post How to Decrease Your Carbon Footprint with Your Business’s Packaging? It can save you money on energy costs and. appeared first on U.S.
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Europe Goes Big on Green Recovery Package While America Pushes the Status Quo
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 11, 2020
Europe is crafting a €750 billion recovery package in response to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. our recent stimulus package sent billions of dollars to debt-laden oil producers. our recent stimulus package sent billions of dollars to debt-laden oil producers. Meanwhile, here in the U.S.,
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Green lessons: Government unveils plans to 'put climate change at heart of education'
Business Green
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi to tell COP26 plans for 'world-leading climate change education will equip young people with the skills and knowledge to build a sustainable future'.
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Mayor of London unveils £3.1m urban tree planting funding package
Business Green
JULY 27, 2022
to support tree planting across the capital, in bid to boost vital canopy cover and sun shade for citizens, support urban wildlife and biodiversity, reduce flood risk, and help combat climate change by absorbing and storing carbon. The Mayor of London has pledged a further £3.1m
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Amazon Goes Beyond Delivering Packages
Energy Central
OCTOBER 20, 2023
In a world obsessed with instant gratification, I’m not sure many people give much thought to the impact those vehicles have on climate change. Whether it’s those familiar vans or 18-wheelers in the interstate. The good news is that Amazon has given it thought, and the company has just.
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Online Course - Climate Change Leadership (Cornell)
Green Market Oracle
JANUARY 3, 2021
Cornell Course Organizations everywhere are racing to plan for the effects of climate change on the global supply chain. Organizations everywhere are racing to plan for the effects of climate change on the global supply chain. Subscribe in a reader
Latest COVID-19 relief includes legislation on climate change
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 22, 2020
A $35 billion investment in clean power and other climate initiatives hitched a ride on the latest COVID-19 relief package.
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The circular economy can be a holistic approach to addressing climate change
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 2, 2019
From fashion to household goods, industry leaders are using their tools and resources to eliminate the concept of waste.
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Certifications matter more than ever and brands should be promoting them
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 6, 2020
According to our latest polling of Americans in May, 43 percent of us are more concerned about climate change, 41 percent of us are more concerned about plastics in the ocean and 39 percent of us are more concerned about deforestation and environmental destruction than we were a year ago. If we go back in time to 2014, the No.
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Does plastic have a future in packaging?
Business Green
AUGUST 3, 2021
The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. Yet plastic packaging is ubiquitous because it is useful, not to say crucial in many applications.
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Replate: Using Tech to Combat Food Waste, Food Insecurity and Climate Change
Green Business Bureau
JULY 20, 2021
After choosing a pickup time on the user dashboard, a Replate food rescuer picks up the packaged food and directly delivers it to a nonprofit organization in the community, ensuring safe and reliable food donations to those in need.
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Greatest Benefits of Using Compostable Packaging
Green Living Guy
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
Packaging is Everything We know there’s a real threat of climate change. The post Greatest Benefits of Using Compostable Packaging appeared first on Green Living Guy. The post Greatest Benefits of Using Compostable Packaging appeared first on Green Living Guy. One that many scientists are predicting.
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Study: Climate change increasingly raised as a human rights issue in court cases
Business Green
JULY 2, 2020
Global review of climate litigation highlights increasing instances of activists and governments using courts to force climate action from businesses and governments.
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HP Sets Target to Reduce Single-use Plastic Packaging.
Green Living Guy
JUNE 27, 2020
HP Sets Target to Reduce Single-use Plastic Packaging, Making Progress Toward Diversity Imperative! Sustainable Impact is HP’s commitment to create positive, lasting change for the planet. The post HP Sets Target to Reduce Single-use Plastic Packaging. That’s for its people and our communities.
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Advocates call for long-term clean energy incentives in budget reconciliation package
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
trillion budget reconciliation package. The coalition wrote in a letter to the House Ways and Means Committee that stable, predictable, and long-term clean energy and transportation tax incentives are needed to address the planet’s warming climate and revive an industry hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
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LACI CEO Comments On COP26 UN Climate Talks and Passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package
LA CleanTech Incubator
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Read more » The post LACI CEO Comments On COP26 UN Climate Talks and Passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package appeared first on LACI.
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MPs table fresh legislation to 'close gaps' in UK Climate Change Act
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Proposed Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill would see international aviation, shipping, and consumption fall within the UK's 2050 net zero target, while putting climate assemblies on a formal standing. Based on the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to 1.5C
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'Bonkers savings': NatWest and Octopus Energy debut discounted EV charging package
Business Green
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Announced today, the new package offers customers access to discounted EV charge points and installations, in addition to any associated home solar panels and battery storage.
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Emerging trends in climate change legal disputes
Business Green
JUNE 20, 2021
Businesses of all types have potential exposure to litigation for climate change-related harm - it is critical they understand this rapidly evolving landscape, argue White & Case's Mark Clarke and Gwen Wackwitz. In recent years, the number and scope of climate change-related actions has increased dramatically.
Extra 823 million plastic bottles will be produced under proposed DRS, warns aluminium packaging recycling group
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
· Aluminium packaging recycling body urges caution to avoid unintended consequences of a DRS. · As part of research released on 5 November by Alupro, the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation, 2,000 UK adults[ii] were asked to imagine there was a 20p deposit on every can or bottle of any size, as proposed in Scotland.
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Earth 911 Reader: Plastic Is In People, Women Will Suffer More From Climate Change, and $46 Billion In Packaging Savings
AGreenLiving
AUGUST 22, 2020
We read … The post Earth 911 Reader: Plastic Is In People, Women Will Suffer More From Climate Change, and $46 Billion In Packaging Savings appeared first on Earth 911. See the rest here: Earth 911 Reader: Plastic Is In People, Women Will Suffer More From Climate Change, and $46 Billion In Packaging Savings.
Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change
Grist
MAY 18, 2021
To prevent the most devastating effects of climate change, it’s essential to cut greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuel use. One of the company’s founders, Kevin Meissner, wanted to build a shrine of sorts to human-induced climate change. It is not an investor in the company.
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Sustainable Packaging Materials Used For Everyday Goods
Green Living Guy
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Every year, people around the globe dispose millions’ tons of packaging materials. Traditionally, there are plenty of environmentally friendly and recyclable packaging materials out there. The post Sustainable Packaging Materials Used For Everyday Goods appeared first on Green Living Guy.
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'Real urgency required': Business leaders urge G20 to act now on climate change
Business Green
OCTOBER 5, 2020
The report, which outlines an action plan for kickstarting the global economy in the wake of the Covid pandemic, places a strong emphasis on tackling climate change, mitigating its effects, and paving the way for carbon neutrality.
UN: Investment in battling climate change at risk of decline
Business Green
OCTOBER 30, 2022
UN Conference on Trade and Development fears that slowdown in foreign investment could impact flows of climate-related finance. Investment in projects that tackle climate change is expected to decline in 2022 as global foreign direct investment flows drop, according to a report published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development.
Alok Sharma: 'We must also follow the best scientific advice on climate change'
Business Green
APRIL 22, 2020
The move also came on the same day as a global poll revealed an overwhelming majority of people believe climate change is as serious a crisis as Covid-19 and support the delivery of green economic recovery plans. The world needs to see more ambition to tackle the climate crisis," he said. "It
Cop28 landmark deal agreed to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels
The Guardian: Energy
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Summit president hails ‘historic package to accelerate climate action’, but critics decry ‘litany of loopholes’ in final text Cop28 live – latest updates The Cop28 climate summit has approved a deal that its supporters said would, for the first time, push nations to move away from fossil fuels to avert the worst effects of climate change.
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WRAP updates voluntary agreements, outlining circularity vision for food, plastic and textiles
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 5, 2022
” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.
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Government steps up effort to 'turn tide on plastic' with plan to extend bans on single-use packaging
Business Green
AUGUST 27, 2021
The proposed ban forms part of a wider package of policies that are set to be delivered following the passage of the government's Environment Bill later this autumn. We need now to take a leading role in banning unnecessary single-use plastics to see real benefits for the nation's and the world's wildlife.".
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Adler and Allan acquires specialist water and drainage company
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The services Adler and Allan offers, and their established position in the utilities market, allows us to offer our expert no dig technology services into more companies, providing a full turnkey package of frontline operational capability.”
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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 4, 2021
Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.
Extended Producer Responsibility cannot be delayed, says ADEPT
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2022
Baled plastic bottles: introducing EPR will encourage producers to reduce their packaging through meeting the full net costs of packaging management, which will in turn encourage better packaging design and make it easier to recycle. There is no requirement for these costs to be passed to the consumer.
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Government confirms 2030 fossil fuel car sales ban as it touts new £20m EV funding package
Business Green
MARCH 9, 2021
Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget last week was greeted with disappointment by much of the green economy, with analysts arguing it largely failed to deliver on high hopes the Treasury could deliver a major green stimulus package.
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Hardship and climate change: How to draw-up climate-resilient contracts
Business Green
MAY 3, 2020
States' commitments to combat climate change may also affect contractual performance. As parties traditionally allocate business risks when contracting, these climate change-related risks now more than ever require careful consideration by contracting parties. Potential impact of climate-change on contracting parties.
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