Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The Plan for Water , released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning, outlines the government's intention to change the law to increase penalties on water companies that break environmental law, and make it easier for regulators to impose fines on firms without lengthy court processes.

Pollution 36

Pollution Energy Monitor Plastics Government 36

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Plastic waste ban: A red herring? Envirotec reports.

Soil 280

Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Adopting a “water positive” attitude means prioritizing measures that raise the water standard, safeguard aquatic ecosystems, and reduce pollution. Every little bit helps, from cutting down on disposable plastics to implementing water conservation measures daily to advocating for legislation to protect our rivers.

Sustainability 195

Sustainability Law Plastics Health 195

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. ING’s climate policy is miles away from what is necessary to achieve the 1.5°C Since that agreement’s adoption in December 2015, ING has issued 83.2

Fossil fuels 120

Fossil fuels Pollution Climate change Carbon-neutral 120

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The United Nations is being urged to make a bold pledge and set a target of zero for new plastic pollution by 2040 in its upcoming Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution. Plastic production and subsequent pollution are key drivers of climate change, the focus of discussion at COP27 in Egypt this week.

Plastics 264

Plastics Waste Waste Pollution 264

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate advocates said that giving green accolades to companies who continue to produce adverts and public relations campaigns for major polluters undermines the credibility of Ad Net Zero, an advertising industry body formed in 2020 amid a broader push by the business world to show it was serious about tackling the climate crisis.

Fossil fuels 135

Fossil fuels Pollution Plastics Sustainability 135

AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

With new federal bills up for review and debate, and packaging being a bull’s eye, the status of packaging and recycling policy is in flux. But all the work must be underpinned by strong, smart policy,” de Thomas said. “We have glass, paper, plastics, rigid and flexible formats. “There is a need for reporting.

Packaging 36

Packaging Recycling Recycling Policy 36

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And if these funders refuse to stop their polluting investments, the movement aims to hold them accountable through strategies such as direct action and litigation. The new lawsuit against BNP Paribas, filed February 23 in the Paris Judicial Court, claims that the French bank is in breach of France’s “duty of vigilance” law.

Fossil fuels 91

Fossil fuels Law Organic Pollution 91

Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

Prevent ocean waste from plastic netting. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems. Prevent Ocean Waste From Plastic Netting. Adhere to the “Good Fish Guide”. Ban overfishing endangered species.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Seafood Fossil fuels Plastics 148

Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

The government has today offered a further glimpse of its plans to develop new legally-binding targets for waste and resources, air pollution, biodiversity and water quality in the UK, promising a "robust, evidence-led process" for setting the goals in statute by the end of October 2022.

Government 100

Government Biodiversity Waste Waste 100

Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution. Pollution from litter, sunscreen chemicals, and boats making day trips to the island in large numbers (200 boats and 5000 tourists per day) had gradually damaged 80% of the island’s ecological system.

Energy Monitor 65

Energy Monitor Waste Waste Plastics 65

Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Good environmental policy starts with equitable decision-making process. The proposed Office of Equity ** , would have facilitated and track outcomes for state policy and systems change to promote equity in policy, practice, and outcomes and require agencies to use equity assessment tools. We testified in support of this bill.

Building Energy Monitoring 71

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 71

Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition, the plan incorporates a new roadmap for boosting household water efficiency and tackling leaks across the water industry, new plans to tackle air pollution hot spots, and a series of initiatives to bolster green innovation by improving access to finance and research and development for farmers and foresters.

Government 79

Government Policy Biodiversity Health 79

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

An explosive new report finds that the plastics industry has misled the public for decades about the viability of recycling plastic, promoting reuse despite the fact that mechanical recycling was not feasible – perpetuating the plastic waste crisis the world faces today.

Plastics 142

Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 142

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

target will be the guideline for Germany's climate foreign policy.". Policy changes and technological innovation are expected to play a key role in meeting these enhanced goals.". The Clean Oceans Initiative is the largest common initiative dedicated to funding projects aimed at reducing plastic pollution at sea.

Law 40

Law Plastics Government Climate change 40

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2022

We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. We specialize in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs. Learn more and apply.

Energy Monitor 40

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Law 40

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Due to a law passed last year by the Italian government all students will now study both climate change and sustainable development. The new policy applies to children in Italy's public school system from grade one to grade 13, from the ages of six through to 19.

Climate change 52

Climate change Education Sustainability Government 52

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Proposed law offers no legal guarantees current UK green standards will not be weakened after Brexit, Greener UK warns. Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers claimed the proposed law would set a "gold standard" for protecting nature in the face of growing climate change and environmental threats.

Law 66

Law Government Plastics Climate change 66

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

If you can, picture Little Sara from SW Houston, TX pulling plastic soda can rings out of the trash and cutting them in half to avoid choking fish while wearing an I AM A MAN t-shirt honoring the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and humming the United Farmworkers’ De Colores. In my eyes, our environment works both for and against us.

Innovation 75

Innovation Policy Pollution Climate change 75

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

Pollution 477

Pollution Health Politics Policy 477

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. A few months later, the New York Times reported on the study, bringing national attention to the issue, and an op-ed in the Yale Law Journal described indoor air pollution, as a “menace” that required “comprehensive federal legislation.”

Health 103

Health Pollution Fossil fuels Medicine 103

Econaur

APRIL 22, 2020

Outraged by oil spills, smog and polluted rivers, 20 million people took to the streets, protesting what they recognized as an environmental crisis. It was the planet’s largest civic event at the time and compelled governments to take concrete actions, including passing environmental laws and establishing environmental agencies.

Earth Day 92

Earth Day Biodiversity Climate change Pollution 92

Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

But while the Climate Law focused largely on governance measures, the new Industrial Strategy offers a framework for private sector companies and investors to drive low carbon investment and green growth in line with the Commission's aim to become the world's first 'carbon neutral' continent.

Carbon-neutral 93

Carbon-neutral Europe Carbon Construction 93

Business Green

JUNE 24, 2022

Among the earliest was one filed by activist economist Jeremy Rifkin in 1992, challenging several US agencies that, according to the suit, did not consider the effects of climate change in their policies. Plastics, packaging and other forms of waste are also on the docket, as are companies' ESG marketing claims. Law and disorder.

Law 40

Law Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon-negative 40

Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate tech for social change, welcomes five new climate fellows to its Policy Lab. Created in 2021, the Policy Lab was founded to accelerate and implement solutions at the seam of technology, policy, equity and justice.

Policy 98

Policy Organic Innovation Carbon 98

Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

However, some of the scraps are being sold as cheap fuel to kiln owners, despite the fact the practice breaches a number of environmental laws and regulations. However, a large portion of the clothing scraps used in the kilns are made up of synthetic materials like plastic which - when burnt - can release toxic chemicals, Greenpeace warned.

Waste 40

Waste Waste Fashion Building Energy Monitoring 40

Grist

AUGUST 3, 2022

DDT was banned and over the next 20 years, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. These three policies still form the backbone of federal environmental law. Others might call this “noise pollution,” a nod to its unwanted nature.

Climate change 145

Climate change Health Policy Pollution 145

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Reports vary on the percentage of those companies that re-started donations to insurrectionists (some say only 23% have kept the policy ). Concern about plastics and packaging, for example, was a huge issue in 2019.

Sustainability 120

Sustainability Fossil fuels Plastics Carbon-negative 120

Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In a new report, the waste management company sets out a series of policy recommendations for boosting plastics recycling in the UK. UK plastic waste exports should be banned, according to leading waste management company Viridor, which yesterday published a new roadmap setting out how to rapidly increase UK plastic recycling capacity.

Plastics 91

Plastics Waste Waste Government 91

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. But policies encouraging reuse, she says, will require “systemic change”.

Packaging 98

Packaging Law Europe Waste 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Some technologies allow the captured CO2 to be re-used by converting it into plastics, concrete or biofuel. The group says that its members are “companies across the CCUS industry” including “support services in the energy sector” such as law, banking and consultancy. The CCSA also has political connections.

Pollution 119

Pollution Carbon Fossil fuels Politics 119

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Food manufacturers and retailers could face legal action if they fail to tackle their reliance on plastic, according to ClientEarth. Supermarkets and fast-moving consumer goods companies that fail to act to reduce their reliance on plastic are opening themselves up to the risk of litigation, environmental lawyers have warned.

Plastics 59

Plastics Law Retail Pollution 59

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But who benefits and how from this new rush to seabed mining remains unclear,” said Kristina Gjerde, high seas policy advisor for the IUCN Global Marine Program. Such contamination could also pose a threat to the food security for developing and coastal nations whose fishing stocks and other seafloor marine life would be decimated.

Building Energy Monitoring 92

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Energy Monitor 92

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

The world’s biggest banks are indiscriminately funding firms responsible for devastating marine ecosystems and fuelling climate change via their plastics production, a new report from Portfolio Earth concludes. The plastics crisis is one of the most serious environmental crises facing the world.

Plastics 56

Plastics Fossil fuels Packaging Pollution 56

Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Single-use plastics are helping keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, but creating new challenges for governments in dealing with the waste problem. Some of the world's largest corporations promised to quickly slash their use of virgin plastic packaging. Where does this leave the businesses embracing circularity in plastics?

Plastics 99

Plastics Recycling Recycling Recycled materials 99

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There’s been a 38-fold increase in sustainability-related laws and regulations since 1972. Sustainability-led initiatives help mitigate the risk of non-compliance as these laws and regulations continue to develop. Benchmark setting using sustainability standards set by NGOs, internal company policies, or other stakeholders.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Waste Waste Organic 148

Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

A chemical cocktail of sewage, agricultural waste and plastic is polluting our river systems. We are inevitably disappointed that the government rejected some of our recommendations, most notably on pollution from intensive poultry farms. Ministers have clearly woken up to the scale of the challenge.

Pollution 73

Pollution Government Health Plastics 73