Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Home to Yorkshire’s only Seal Hospital, Sea Life’s Scarborough’s Seal Sanctuary opened in 2008, while the group’s Hunstanton’s dedicated Seal Rescue Centre and Hospital opened in 1989. Despite her poor health, Lady became stronger and stronger thanks to the aid of the Animal Care Team, eventually being released in June 2019.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 4, 2024

Concerns about air pollution and athlete health overshadowed preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games and required industry and traffic shutdowns to clean the air during the event itself. Now, a team of researchers at Chinese, German and Canadian universities have tracked the impacts of deteriorating air at that time.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

One thing was that economies had bounced back to the levels recorded before the 2008 financial crisis, but in reality, economic growth and labor productivity were mainly carried by low-paid, low-quality and low-security jobs, with more than half the world’s population — 4 billion people — not covered by any social safety net. .

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The IEA study will show that disposing of solar panels in landfill is unlikely to have an adverse impact on human health, according to co-author Dr. Garvin Heath, a senior scientist in the U.S. And although the blades, like solar panels, are not expected to pose a health hazard, their size is seen as challenge when it comes to disposal.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards. Multiple hazards assessment standards are available in increasingly usable formats to help companies identify problematic chemicals.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A class of chemicals commonly used in plastic food containers and cosmetic products may have caused about 10 percent of the United States’ preterm births in 2018, according to a study from environmental health experts at New York University. Salads packed in plastic clamshells.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

CRUK, which includes John Lewis as one of its members,[i] launched in 2008 with the aim of diverting carpet from landfill and recovering raw materials.[ii]. The current system means society is throwing away or burning billions of pounds of valuable materials, while polluting the environment and negatively impacting on human health.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

In 2008, summer lightning storms sparked a chain of wildfires in the forests of Northern California. Wildfire smoke spreads across California’s Sacramento Valley on July 7, 2008. A California Department of Forestry firefighter monitors a blaze on July 9, 2008 in Concow, California. The experiment started by chance.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As far back as 2008 we thought it eco-crazy to dig up knotweed infested soils from one site only to dump it in a landfill site, many miles away. The charcoal is made into biochar simply by adding a liquid fertiliser, improving soil structure, health and fertility.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2023, a staggering 91 countries were involved in some form of conflict, a significant increase from 58 in 2008.This The FPI, a measure of financial health, is based on data from over 40,000 companies globally. This escalation of conflict has a profound impact on the global economy, with conflict estimated to have a 12.9

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Huge kudos to our shareholders after today's unanimous support of the change of Danone's by-laws to incorporate health, planet, people and inclusiveness objectives as part of our mission," Faber enthused. Workers fills up milk storage tank at a Danone dairy plant in Normandy, France, April 2008. Sponsored Article. Shutterstock.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Kering is looking to solutions such as isotope tracking, genetic mapping and laser markings as a means of verifying that materials meet health and sourcing requirements, Regent says.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Covid-19 crisis will result in a "worse shock" to the economy than seen 12 years ago, according to the group, and "what worked for the 2008 financial crisis may not be sufficient to overcome this one". The group warns the shock to the economy caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be tougher than the 2008 financial crisis. "We

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

What might this mean for the health of the housing market as natural disasters continue to increase in frequency and magnitude? What parallels can we draw from the 2008 financial crisis that resulted from the housing market collapse? What happens after a large disaster in terms of new loans? What is the significance?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

This is valuable information for decision-makers who are tasked with balancing water needs for environmental health and energy demand. To get this information, numerous studies were conducted between 2008 and 2018 using a different method: acoustic telemetry. But under other conditions, higher spill levels have little effect.”

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 2, 2023

Founded in 2008, Impetus Digital has over a decade of experience in virtualizing meetings and events and offers a full range of strategic, medical writing, and digital services to help make the transition from in-person to virtual as seamless as possible.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. As the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

It could be akin to the 2008 financial crisis that delivered a shock to our systems that continues to shape politics and economics today. What is certain is that the spread of Covid-19 has created an unprecedented disruptive moment, as we face not only a public health crisis, but also an economic crisis and a political crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

They contain organic matter (such as resin and brominated flame retardants), chemical residuals and heavy metal elements that can be seriously damaging to the environment and human health. However, they also contain high-grade precious metals such as palladium, silver, copper and gold. (As

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2020

But with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and its severe implications for physical and mental human health as well as economic livelihood and global financial stability, we know that there will be considerable rollbacks in the gains already made toward the goals. All-in for global health security.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

The Kichwa have also raised concerns over health issues arising from contact with the oil-contaminated water, including skin rashes and stomach problems. But the trial was suspended a month later, in May, just before government authorities were due to give evidence, with Judge Jaime Oña citing health concerns among the court team.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

City Council passed Resolution 200005 directing the city to update the 2008 Climate Protection Plan to include new greenhouse gas reduction goals, resiliency and equity. In 2020, the K.C.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Massachusetts’ new three-year energy efficiency plan would substantially increase efforts to lower energy costs and improve health and comfort for lower-income households and residents of color. Mass Save’s programming is guided by three-year energy efficiency plans, a system put in place by the state’s 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act.

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Business Green

JULY 28, 2020

Although a UK Crown Dependency, the Isle of Man - which has a population of around 83,000 people - is largely self-governing and is not covered by the UK's 2008 Climate Change Act and 2050 net zero target. Alongside the Bill, the Isle of Man has also published an updated action plan outlining a roadmap for reaching the 2050 goal.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Carbon Government 81

Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Amid today's unparalleled health and economic crises, the plunge in demand for nearly all major fuels is staggering, especially for coal, oil and gas. If the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis is anything to go by, we are likely to soon see a sharp rebound in emissions as economics improve," he said.

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Michael Grossman

APRIL 27, 2020

The client knew COVID-19 was going to cause a dramatic downturn in sales (especially on higher-end products) based on their experience during the 2008 banking meltdown. A month ago, I was scrambling to produce an ad for a client before Washington shut down due to the coronavirus. They asked me what I thought they should do.

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Fairsnape

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It was back in 2008 when I first came across Rob Hopkins through his Transition Handbook. What if we lived in a time when the human imagination flourished and anything felt possible. This helped shape a lot of my sustainability thinking at the time, ( Time for built environment transition? )

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 8, 2021

EU officials have said they are eager to avoid repeating the same mistakes made during the 2008 financial crisis, when billions of euros of public money was used to bail out fossil fuel companies. dedicated to improving Spain’s health system, the researchers claim. This is almost 50 percent more than the €1.1

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 8, 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on health, social ties and the global economy. Let’s be clear: a global health pandemic is not the way we want to reduce carbon emissions. But could there be a silver lining? Could coronavirus be slowing global carbon emissions? Manufacturing and construction make up 20% of CO2 emissions.

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Health Carbon Climate change Pollution 52

DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

Many of Labour’s new MPs will be too young to remember when Miliband became the UK’s first Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change under Gordon Brown in 2008. Under Miliband, the government committed in 2008 to raising the UK’s emission-cutting targets from 60 to 80 percent by 2050.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 31, 2020

Nordan emphasized that this time is, at its core, a public health crisis; as opposed to the 2008 financial crisis, where the problem lay within our economic system, if COVID-19 disappeared tomorrow then much of our economy could return to business as usual.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We think government needs to revise the airports national policy statement to take account of the net zero commitment in section one of the Climate Change Act 2008.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, including drought, famine, and ill health, according to the world’s leading climate science body, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Record is a major Conservative donor, having given nearly half a million pounds to the Conservative Party since 2008.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

Calls for a green recovery are nothing new of course - similar arguments were made in the wake of the last global financial crisis in 2008. Public health concerns and great economic uncertainty clearly pervade, and a bumpy road ahead beckons in either direction.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A dam break in Bihar, India, in 2008 killed 2,400 people and affected more than 3 million. Interestingly, they found that areas that flooded due to the collapse of dams or levees generally experienced the most growth over the study period.

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Business Green

JULY 11, 2022

Under the 2008 Climate Change Act, the UK's critical infrastructure providers are requested to submit a voluntary report on the existing and future risks climate change poses to their organisation and operations, which should also set out their plans to adapt to emerging risks.

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