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L'Oréal embraces environmental labelling under revamped sustainability strategy

Business Green

2030 sustainability vision launched today by the beauty giant includes pledges to use only recycled or biobased packaging by the end of the decade and achieve carbon neutrality across its sites by 2025. Planetary boundaries are nine environmental 'red lines' that researchers have warned will compromise life on Earth if crossed.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification. Wolf hopes that spurring demand for plant-derived shrimp will have upstream effects, such as boosting beneficial ocean-based agriculture while reducing demand for farmed shrimp.

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The Blue Economy: Importance of Ocean Conservation

Green Tech Challenge

In addition to plastic waste, 30 to 40% of carbon emissions from cars, buses, airplanes, and manufacturing plants are absorbed by the ocean, causing chemical imbalance in sea water i.e. Ocean Acidification. Waste Reduction The reduction of non-biodegradable waste is another plausible solution to ocean conservation.

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Because it's worth it: L'Oréal's Nathalie Bleach on the beauty giant's revamped sustainability strategy

Business Green

"We are looking specifically at the type of packaging we're using for delivery as well as the way we deliver, and increasing the number of green vehicles." L'Oréal UK has partnered with a firm that relies on green vehicles and green depots to get packages to customers' front doors, she says.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to an analysis published by Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, the transport, processing, retail, and packaging of food, account for only a small share of emissions, while most GHG emissions caused by animal agriculture result from the production of the meat itself.

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Global Briefing: Paris Olympics targets zero food waste and more plant based meals

Business Green

COP26 President Alok Sharma has hinted that a coalition of industrialised nations is exploring how to introduce new multi-billion dollar green funding packages to emerging economies in Asia building on the just transition deal agreed with South Africa at the COP26 Climate Summit last year. WMO raises alarm over latest climate records.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification. Wolf hopes that spurring demand for plant-derived shrimp will have upstream effects, such as boosting beneficial ocean-based agriculture while reducing demand for farmed shrimp.

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