Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

The government has been urged to introduce an immediate ban on new intensive poultry sheds in a bid to curb deforestation and habitat loss in South America caused by soya production for UK livestock feed.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 20, 2022

Have you read: Enel X partners on demand response pilot to remedy real-time energy needs Enel calls for collaborative action and expands Gridspertise into US Enel X decarbonises Italian chemical facility with ORC plant. The commissioning of the transformer will take place at the Primary Substation in Caltagirone, in the province of Catania.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

All the companies are members of the Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD) group, which aims to make palm oil supply chains more environmentally and socially responsible and conducts an annual investigation to map risks in its members' supply chains. We're proud to launch the ASD Impact Fund.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The supermarket giant has committed to achieving a 300 per cent increase in sales of meat alternative products by 2025 compared to 2018, backed by a host of wider sustainability measures it has developed in partnership with environmental charity WWF. They need to know where they are starting from in order to know where they are going.".

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2022

"The limited-edition menu is a direct result of our focus on vegan and plant-based innovation and goes hand in hand with our target of a 50 per cent meat-free menu by 2030, as well as our commitment to sustainability and responsible business," Burger King UK's chief marketing officer Katie Evans said in a statement. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the vulnerable water towers are especially under pressure due to demands from population growth and alarming increases in downstream water use,” explains study coauthor and Acting Program Director of the IIASA Water Program, Yoshihide Wada. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Some of the vulnerable water towers are especially under pressure due to demands from population growth and alarming increases in downstream water use,” explains study coauthor and Acting Program Director of the IIASA Water Program, Yoshihide Wada. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

As such the groups argued for a 'mass balance' strategy that would mix soya from both sustainable and conventional sources. And in further related news, think tank Planet Tracker has warned that the Gran Chaco forest is "fast becoming the next major frontier of deforestation", due to rising global demand for soya.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

The company said it is now working with fava bean processor AB Mauri and intends to use the beans in a host of new UK products so as to help increase demand for the sustainable protein. It really could be a miracle crop in terms of improving sustainability across our food system".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 15, 2020

(I just posted yesterday and I generally only do a couple of posts per month, but there was some big sustainability news that I wanted everyone to know about). For the last 5 years, he has made the case for long-term thinking and sustainability. Fink has been tearing that idea down for years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The dominant driver of the increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide comes from agriculture, and the growing demand for food and feed for animals will further increase global nitrous oxide emissions," Tian said. There is a conflict between the way we are feeding people and stabilising the climate.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Moreover, it said the move would boost job opportunities in the North East, supporting 100 jobs at AB Sugar's Vivergo plant near Hull and helping to boost demand for biofuels produced at other plants such as Ensus's ethanol factory in Stockton-on-Tees, and British Sugar's factory in Norfolk.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Traditionally, they have focused on industry links to deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as consumer-centred demands to eat less meat, which has been a major contributor to the rise of green veganism in Western countries. Charlotte Moore is head of research at the NGO Sigwatch.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The results of the poll also reveal significant demand for businesses to do more to tackle the problem, with 35 per cent of respondents believing companies are primarily responsible for ensuring goods sold in the UK do not support the destruction of nature overseas, according to WWF.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Subscribe to get sustainability food news in your inbox every Thursday. While the palm oil commitment requires zero deforestation in all sourcing regions, soy and cattle mainly focus on South America's Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco regions. This bears the risk of displacing conversion to other regions if demand doesn't budge.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“There is substantial uncertainty as to whether these largely unproven technologies can be deployed as quickly, and at the scale required, and just how sustainable they are,” Price continued. Damon Matthews, a climate scientist at Concordia University stressed that this was a significant assumption that ignores questions about sustainability.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Historically the large-scale development of geothermal resources has been driven by the need to meet national electricity demands. This is a part of the 2023 Northern Ireland Geothermal Webinar Series organized by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland. Title: “Why Geothermal?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Recently, one such escape has been watching Ewan McGregor ride an electric motorbike through South America on the Long Way Up. Robert Spencer is director of sustainable development at AECOM. There's a definite relationship between winter drawing in, increasing lock down and the amount of escapism I seek through television.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The plant-based straw controversy serves as a poignant reminder that even seemingly sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives can harbor hidden health and environmental risks. With the ever-growing demand for sustainable packaging, companies need tools to help advance their planet-forward goals.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 31, 2019

With investor interest sizzling and demand for these burgers surging nationally after Impossible’s deal with Burger King to provide Impossible Whoppers and its $300 million Series E funding round earlier this year, the race has been on to scale up production to keep up expectations and appetites. . Sizzling Demand.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Leaked documents show that an adviser to the Saudi oil ministry demanded that “phrases like ‘the need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales’ should be eliminated from the report.”. Giulia Chierchia, BP’s executive VP on strategy and sustainability, went with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The food giant reveals how a simplification of a once sprawling palm oil supply chain has helped the company to ensure it can deliver on its sustainable sourcing pledges. The names of these mills - all in South America and Asia Pacific - are public and all produce oil certified by the RSPO. But this commitment was not met.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Much of the demand for these commodities comes from the world's richest countries, with demand from the EU and UK estimated to be responsible for around ten per cent of global deforestation. Bold and urgent action from these producers is the critical first step in tackling deforestation throughout the supply chain.".

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The demand for IT products that have been manufactured in a fair and environmentally sustainable way is growing, but many sustainability issues in the IT industry are difficult to solve. The study includes 20 factories in Asia and South America, that have been audited twice during the time period 2015-2018.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. percent. So far, 60 percent of the beef it sources is “deforestation-free,” according to Aramark.

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

By giving institutions the modernized tools and validation they require to deploy capital, T-REX facilitates increased investment allocations into sustainable, decarbonization-related assets. “Over the last several years, not only has the demand for each of these solutions grown, but the needs they address have converged. .

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

By giving institutions the modernized tools and validation they require to deploy capital, T-REX facilitates increased investment allocations into sustainable, decarbonization-related assets. “Over the last several years, not only has the demand for each of these solutions grown, but the needs they address have converged. .

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

These impacts are "hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe", leaving all life on Earth vulnerable, the report states. Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

While in the short term growing demand for hydrogen - particularly green hydrogen - risks exceeding production capacity, the world's technical potential for hydrogen production actually significantly exceeds demand in the longer term, it adds. And it was define sustainable developments for years to come.".

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

At Lowimpact we’re interested in helping to build a sustainable, democratic economy and strong communities. Claire: We’re in Chorlton in South Manchester. But we can see that there’s a demand, and so we want to be able to employ local people to deliver, but with a living wage and better conditions than Deliveroo and others.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Clean hydrogen will be necessary to decarbonize sectors hard to abate where H2 will be used as a feedstock to complete industrial processes, such as fertilizers, oil refining and methanol production, as well as emerging uses like maritime shipping, greenfield steel and sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

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