GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. Since the 1960s, the amount of plastic packaging on everything, not just cosmetics, has increased 120 times. And Loop can use Ulta’s connections to expand its own portfolio.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

BusinessGreen has today released a tranche of free passes to the Net Zero Festival 2021 , offering an opportunity for sustainability practitioners and business leaders from around the world to access the latest cutting-edge thinking on how to accelerate the net zero transition and navigate the many challenges and opportunities it offers.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Green Transition in Everyday Habits Now more than ever, it’s vital to ingrain eco-friendly habits into our daily routines. By adopting sustainable practices during relocation, we’re not just decluttering our lives but also championing a sustainable future. But what if we could rewrite this narrative?

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Front And Centered

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Just Futures Project. In spring of 2021, Front and Centered worked with Statewide Poverty Action Network and the People’s Economy Lab to create the Just Futures project with the aim of creating a community vision, measures, and strategies for state accountability in the economic recovery from COVID-19. Edgar Franks.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To the wind industry, to the energy transition, and perhaps most of all, to the sustainability of the planet. Curbing the amount of asset energy loss is critical to the effectiveness of wind to the energy transition – yet so far there hasn’t been a comprehensive solution. Every megawatt-hour counts. The top 10 energy loss issues.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. You generally have just a price and applicable taxes on your receipt. That has to come from somewhere on a reliable and consistent basis or you do not get fed. Free delivery." Profit is the whole reason a business exists in the first place.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Number 10 could be set to push back a proposed ban on new gas boilers by a further five years to 2040 amid disagreements in Whitehall over the costs of transitioning the households away from fossil fuel heating, according to reports. There will be no ban on boilers just yet - we were going to by 2035 but now that's now happening.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The E-Transit cargo van is an electric version of its already-popular cargo van - Ford sells 150,000 of the model per year. The E-Transit van will be available starting in late 2021, will cost "less than $45,000" and will have a range of 126 miles. The average range for Transit customers today is 74 miles.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The move aligns with the Japanese car firm's focus on a rapid transition to electric vehicles (EVs). Honda's decision to leave Formula One leaves the sport with just three engine suppliers, and teams Red Bull and Alpha Tauri without one. Despite such growth, fully electric car sales still account for just five per cent of the UK total.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Sharing the findings on Twitter , BNEF's head of sustainable materials Julia Attwood described the estimated $278bn price tag for decarbonising a sector responsible for some seven per cent of global emissions was a "bargain". The steel industry cannot afford to wait for the 2040s to start its transition," she warned.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Over a third of respondents - 38 per cent - said they were unlikely to buy an EV in the next five years, with 59 per cent citing costly price tags, while 38 per cent raised concerns about short battery life and range anxiety, and 36 per cent worried about having nowhere to charge up their EV close to home.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Just imagine what 2° or 3° or 4° will look like, and how much it will cost. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 As reliable transition risk metrics and consistent methodologies for Scope 3 emissions are developed, financial regulators should require their disclosure, to the extent they are material.”. percent of GDP by 2100.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. Over the coming months, we’re going to examine different sectors and facets of global energy systems: where they stand, how they’re changing, and the role satellites play in helping facilitate this massive transition. But oil tankers skirt these regulations just as fast.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

but did not tag Shell, nor mention his commercial relationship with the brand. As the study also pointed out, however, these firms invested just 1.7 He told DeSmog that to make meaningful progress towards the energy transition “you have to work with big industry,” adding that Shell’s biofuels are part of that solution.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Current costs of batteries were not coming down quickly enough to address the climate crisis and spur fast enough transition to EVs, he warned. To accelerate the transition to EVs they must be affordable," Musk said. We're gonna work our damnedest to transition the world to sustainable energy as quickly as possible," the CEO claimed.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We received an initial consultation package very recently, just last week. At least one public transit agency — Montreal’s public rental bike system, Bixi — pulled Pathways’ advertisements as they didn’t align with Bixi’s environmental values. billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. Pathways estimates a $16.5

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

That is certainly true of the corporate electric vehicle (EV) transition. Just five years ago, battery-powered fleets were more of an occasional ambition than a working reality for most companies around the world. Yet there is also more that businesses can do themselves to accelerate the global EV transition.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

All of which goes a long way to explaining why advertising is emerging as a major front in the push to accelerate the net zero transition. We may still need fossil fuels, just as we have a need for certain drugs, weapons, and unhealthy foods, but should a society that is committed to decarbonising be advertising them?

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Just how much it will cost the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050 is the trillion-pound question at the epicentre of climate discourse at present. And crucially, the OBR used the report to try and put a figure on the costs and savings associated with the UK's net zero transition. Or is it a billion pound question?

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

And since 2018, the Committee has beefed up its analysis and advice, judging the government's efforts against the legally-binding, overarching goal to transition one of the world's largest economies to net zero emissions by 2050. Decarbonisation progress is well short of what is required, despite the pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

We hope this series can serve as a source of information and inspiration for recent graduates, cleantech professionals planning their careers or anyone who wants to transition into the industry. These types of proceedings are not a regular legal case where it’s just one party against another.”

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EDF + Business

JULY 30, 2019

But that’s just what Martin Powell, the Global Head of Urban Development at Siemens, focuses on each and every day. It’s also exciting how much has transformed in the Smart Cities space in just the last 5 years. We are very focused on transitioning buses and cars across cities to electric.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

That is why the Treasury has resisted calls to axe green levies, the Department for Business has just approved more clean power auctions , and the Energy Minister yesterday insisted net zero is part of the solution, not part of the problem here. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

We estimate that the mitigation costs involved in the UK's pathway to net zero by 2050 are unlikely to exceed the equivalent of two per cent of GDP over the transition period," Rising said. per cent GDP boost. "We per cent in GDP by the end of this century.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group warn that despite growing demand for green products, supply chain risks pose a major threat to the net zero transition. Not bad for an industry that was still widely regarded as 'hard to abate' just a few years ago.

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Business Green

AUGUST 21, 2020

Ulta, like Sephora, is planning a Made Without list that will tag products free of parabens, phthalates and 25 other chemical categories. Since the 1960s, the amount of plastic packaging on everything, not just cosmetics, has increased 120 times. And Loop can use Ulta's connections to expand its own portfolio.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2022

This crisis could and should trigger the next phase of a net zero transition that can boost the economy and deliver multiple energy security and health benefits, while also helping to stabilise global temperatures. Homes that are properly insulated and electrified would have energy bills that are more than a thousand pounds a year lower.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

His performance will help determine whether a country dependent on petrodollars can transition into a supplier of non-polluting fuels. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, the many modern conveniences and economic benefits of software come with a hefty environmental price tag – primarily in the form of energy consumption. Be sure to use the computer’s internal Shut Down or Power Down sequence, rather than just using the power button, to minimize the chance of a faulty power down process.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2021

The CEO of Solar Energy UK sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the critical role the solar sector must play in the next chapter of the UK's net zero transition. But I think it is incumbent on the government to demonstrate that leadership and to show its backing all net zero technologies, and not just picking a few.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, the many modern conveniences and economic benefits of software come with a hefty environmental price tag – primarily in the form of energy consumption. Be sure to use the computer’s internal Shut Down or Power Down sequence, rather than just using the power button, to minimize the chance of a faulty power down process.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

While smaller, sustainably minded companies may not have a flashy ads online or on the TV, they are out there and will often offer discounts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday just like the giant box retailers. You just have to do a little bit of searching. Pick one store for your purchases, or select stores near each other.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Or to put it another way, just three in 10 small businesses said they had the financial resources required to meet net zero targets. That estimated $100,000 price tag for putting firms on a more resilient pathway looks like increasingly good value.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2020

There is very little announced today which will do anything to accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy. But warned "it is not enough to just 'build, build, build' to really put the country into the green economic recovery it urgently needs". "By

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 17, 2021

His performance will help determine whether a country dependent on petrodollars can transition into a supplier of non-polluting fuels. But while Neom’s $500 billion price tag prompts questions about whether it will go ahead exactly as planned, the hydrogen effort doesn’t depend on the megacity’s overall success.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages.

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