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Mars claims palm oil is 'deforestation-free' after ditching hundreds of suppliers

GreenBiz

The adoption of shorter, more transparent palm oil supply chains and working exclusively with suppliers that meet specific environmental, social and ethical standards has made it easier for the company to keep track of its palm oil supply chain, which the company said is no longer contributing to the destruction of tropical forests as a result.

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Let?s get together: Intel?s 2030 commitments include ?shared? climate and social goals

GreenBiz

Where Intel hasn’t delivered: increasing the energy efficiency of notebook computers and data center servers by 25 times by 2020 over 2010 level (it has managed a 14 times increase) and encouraging at least 90 percent compliance among its supply chain on 12 environmental, labor, ethics, health and safety, and diversity and inclusivity metrics (it has (..)

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‘I turned into a solar nerd’: money and fun were the unexpected benefits of installing panels

The Guardian: Energy

Our former environment correspondent had solar panels installed in 2010 and later added a heat pump.

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Hydropower Pushes for Greater Access to Green Finance

GreenTechMedia

The move comes amid growing investor scrutiny of environmental, social and ethical standards. The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol , launched in 2010, was a major step forward for the sector. Hydropower sector grapples with environmental challenges. However, the level of uptake has been uncertain at best.

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Largest PV investments in Poland and Ukraine

Renewable Energy World

Between 2010 and 2019, electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES) in the 11 central EU member states grew at a slower rate than in Western Europe (4% vs. 6% average annual growth). On the scale of the whole continent, the average growth of green electricity production from 2010-2019 amounted to 40%.

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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs

Grist

In the RRC’s district 8, which oversees the Permian Basin — the largest and most productive shale play in Texas — per-foot plugging costs were less than $9 in 2010. Aside from the orphan wells issue, Commission Shift will target campaign finance and ethics reforms at the RRC, she said. By 2020, they had doubled.

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Romancing the 60s on London’s Goodge Street | Brief letters

The Guardian: Energy

Donovan’s Sunny Goodge Street | Seeds for success | Ethical savings | Wilko workers Grace Dent, in her review of the restaurant 64 Goodge Street ( ‘You can imagine a Helena Bonham Carter character lunching here’, 25 August ), suggests that “no one has ever purred seductively” about Goodge Street. 24 August ).

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