DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

On September 19, the California Air Resources Board endorsed the Tropical Forest Standard, which sets the groundwork for electric utilities, oil refineries and other California polluters to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions by paying governments in tropical forest areas not to cut down trees.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fentex Limited has spent a number of years developing an environmentally friendly alternative to Spill Control products often required by Pollution Prevention Guidelines, ISO standards and other regulations. Better Performance, Better Value, Better Ethics. Choose EVO and make the change without compromise. Visit www.evorecycled.co.uk.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Sustainability as a financial incentive, not burden In the past, measures to safeguard the planet may have been seen as just a moral or ethical obligation but the business mindset is evolving and today, UK businesses are increasingly seeing the long-term financial benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Major investment funds available to UK consumers are marketing themselves as “sustainable” and “ethical” while financing fossil fuel companies, research has found. Funds with over £500 million worth of assets under management were included, as well as 14 specifically climate focused funds previously investigated by Ethical Consumer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

As the world moves towards clean energy, projects which actively pollute the planet will become less valuable and eventually left stranded. New research from both HSBC and BlackRock, hardly climate campaigners, shows that green investments have outperformed fossil fuel stocks both in recent years and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 10, 2022

CEO DeeDee Baze created Alphemita Financial Services , a comprehensive financial service provider that’s dedicated to supporting women while also operating in alignment with DeeDee’s strong values and ethics. Building a business using strong ethics and values. Alphemita Financial Service is a business that leads by example.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick Studio said, “Airo isn’t simply another electric car that doesn’t pollute the air. Instead, using the latest HEPA-filter technology, it goes further by also vacuuming-up pollutants from other cars as it drives along.” Airo is a concept car that cleans polluted air as it drives.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Basic Tenets of SDG 12: Severing the current relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation : Increasing world-life gains from economic growth by improving resource efficiency and reducing resource consumption, degradation, and pollution. Control and reduce any harmful emissions and pollutants ( SDG 15 : Life on Land).

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The inspiration for PaperTale came to Swedish creator Bilal Bhatti after more than 15 years of witnessing the atrocities associated with fast fashion, such as worker exploitation and environmental pollution. PaperTale app shows the ethics and sustainability of clothing with a simple scan. PaperTale Images via PaperTale.

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Charged

APRIL 12, 2024

This supports the development of sustainable business models along the battery value chain while complying with relevant sustainability and ethical criteria. The aim is to reduce child labor and pollution in countries where the raw materials are produced and keep track of the export of old batteries, for example.” Source: Fraunhofer

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2022

These developments focus on the most pressing sustainability challenges the industry faces, that is, carbon footprint reduction and the ethical sourcing of materials. These initiatives will help you reduce business emissions and ethically source materials. Ethically source materials. Sustainability is complex.

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Michael Grossman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You’re moving in the right direction and reducing the pollution of sameness everywhere on the internet. So yes, there are ethical concerns around AI, but that doesn’t mean it should be hermetically sealed from humanity. No technology going back to the invention of the wheel has been turned back because of ethical concerns.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

And thanks in part to social media, they are able to connect directly with more ethically minded consumers. The brand currently continues to partner with local suppliers and artisans in their partner communities and is helping reduce pollution through their advocacy ( [link] ). Photo by PhotoMIX Company from Pexels ( [link] ).

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The bill is transformative far beyond the renewable energy sector, with policies around utility ethics reform, transportation electrification, and pollution reductions.". Pritzker's desk to be signed into law, which he has indicated he plans to do.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 30, 2023

One of the allegations flung at the Net Zero concept, and Carbon Neutral before it, is that the offsetting element acts like a get out of jail free card, letting polluters carry on emitting with their conscience clear. I maintain that the offsetting concept is ethically sound – in theory.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

SCS Global Services, standing for Scientific Certification Systems, provides consumers with the tell-all sign on whether or not a company has ethically reached proper product evaluation upon their use of recycled materials. CHECK CREDENTIALS . There are numerous ways to work towards this goal.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. The environmental group also wants the bank to stop doing business with polluting companies that fail to demonstrate that they have credible climate plans.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2021

In fact, fashion is the second largest polluting industry after fossil fuels. Countless cases of its damage to natural resources, pollutive waste and emissions, and unethical labor practices have fallen under the public eye over the years. They also cut financial corners by ignoring ethical working conditions standards.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 23, 2024

Simms said that for media companies reporting on the climate crisis, hosting content sponsored by major polluters creates a conflict of interest. “Of If they thought their web pages sponsored by oil company Aramco were factually correct and ethical, why have they been removed?”

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2021

The carbon footprint is big and you are putting it straight in the bin to pollute the planet.". While we know these magazines are popular with children, some of the unnecessary plastic attached to them has become really excessive," said Marija Rompani, partner and director for sustainability and ethics at Waitrose.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Promoting sustainable agriculture The agricultural sector is a contributor to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and water pollution. Helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as well as creating new jobs in the renewable energy sector. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

To protect our communities and save taxpayer dollars, we need to slow these costly impacts by reducing carbon pollution now – at the same time we accelerate the clean energy solutions that will power our future prosperity. . Now that you are no longer invested in fossil fuel companies, look for ethical investment options.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution are unquestionably among the biggest challenges we will face in our lifetime and tackling them will require a different kind of thinking," said Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership."By

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

billion) — counts major polluters among its clients, and has defended two companies sued over allegedly polluting local communities. . He added that “it is unfortunate that a firm with a reputation for helping polluters will be given access to the heart of negotiations to advise COP26”. History of Polluting Clients.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The holocaust is obviously an extreme case, but ‘Ruined by Design’ by web/UX designer Mike Monteiro makes the case that far too many of us designers/engineers leave our ethics at home when we rock up to work. He sets out a code of ethics which blows away the whole “just doing my job/following orders” cop-out.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

The beer brand announced this week that it now recovers more plastic from the environment than it produces, arguing that its ongoing drive to mitigate plastic pollution, which includes a recent investment in a recycling facility in Mexico, now 'offsets' its overall plastic output.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, blockchain platform Provenance helps trace and certify supply chains to enable ethical procurement decisions. Just last year, The Carlyle Group made its first foray into the industry by acquiring a stake in Jeanologia, and Permira acquired a majority stake in the ethical fashion brand Reformation.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

An eco-friendly and ethical life involves taking control of your needs, and working out how to meet them without harming either other people or the planet. Decreasing the impact of pollution/smells from nearby roads. Reducing noise pollution from roads or nearby properties. They aim to make ethical the new normal.

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Low Impact

JUNE 24, 2020

Foraging can be a wonderful way to engage with the natural world – an important step in achieving a more sustainable and ethical lifestyle. Also bear in mind that wild foods can be polluted by human activity. They aim to make ethical the new normal. Main image by FOODISM360 on Unsplash. About the author.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Air pollution kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 15, 2020

However, sustainability is much more than an ethical prerogative. At the same time, these simple fixes for improving energy efficiency help reduce an enterprise’s carbon footprint and air pollution impacts.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Why farmers’ markets are good for shopping ethically. By contrast, farmers’ markets have greater transparency and a much shorter chain between food production and consumer, making them a more ethical choice for shoppers. They aim to make ethical the new normal. Yet, at present, this is not the case. About the author.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Sales fell 5% over 14 countries for which data exists, according to the European Heat Pump Association Europe’s heat pump market has hit a slump, industry data shows, holding up the continent’s efforts to heat its homes without polluting the planet.

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Low Impact

MAY 5, 2021

Refusing embalming (which is already prohibited in the Jewish and Muslim faiths) eliminates concerns about pollutants and toxins from the process entering the environment. Green burials will never use harmful or polluting materials in the shroud or coffin; everything placed in the ground will simply and harmlessly decompose.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2021

In collaboration with manufacturers, retailers and recyclers, the Fund intends to improve flexible plastic recycling and reduce plastic pollution by giving the material a stable value. I believe industry-led collaboration is at the heart of tackling many of the environmental challenges facing us.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2022

To protect our communities and save taxpayer dollars, we need to slow these costly impacts by reducing carbon pollution now – at the same time we accelerate the clean energy solutions that will power our future prosperity. . Now that you are no longer invested in fossil fuel companies, look for ethical investment options.

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