Business Green

MARCH 3, 2020

Online retailer claims focus on energy efficiency, low carbon delivery modes, renewables and packaging has helped cut its climate impact. The improvements were largely driven by investments in energy efficiency, reduced delivery and packaging emissions, and increased use of renewable energy.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

Online retail giant publishes annual sustainability report, revealing a 45 per cent reduction in emissions per order since 2015. After making cuts in carbon emissions each year since 2015, ASOS completed the Carbon 2020 strategy in January 2020.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

Online retail giant Amazon has taken another step towards curbing plastic waste across its operations, today announcing that it has stopped packing products in single-use plastic delivery bags and envelopes in its UK distribution network. times lower greenhouse gas emissions than stationary retail - including the returns process.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

The announcement comes around a fortnight the UK missed the official deadline for transferring the EU's Circular Economy Package - including a raft of statutory recycling targets - into UK legislation, a move that caused concern among some green groups.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In 2015, both wind and solar secured historic multi-year extensions to their main federal subsidies. Even back in 2015, however, it was clear that solar got the better deal in Washington, D.C. A hoped-for national infrastructure package that might address the issue has not materialized.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2021

Moreover, it said cartons - which are not currently within the government's proposed scope for the DRS - should also be included in the scheme, arguing that the UK currently holds enough capacity for this packaging to be properly recycled and repurposed, and that adding cartons into the scheme at a later date would prove more costly.

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Business Green

MARCH 29, 2023

Unveiled today, the Retailer Net Zero Collaborative Action Programme (CAP) has secured the backing of Aldi, Co-op, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose, all of which have agreed to help develop a standard, industry-wide approach to measuring and reporting on the climate impact of food.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

What makes it exciting is how it is aligned to an agreed sustainability performance target of reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 60 per cent by 2025 based on their 2015 baseline. This sustainability-aligned bond is a first for the retail sector and nice example of the growing prominence of sustainable finance.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 15, 2020

A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging Cheryl Baldwin Mon, 06/15/2020 – 00:00 This article is sponsored by Pure Strategies. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. When we look ahead, are we on the path to a circular and sustainable system for packaging? Used packages need to be recycled.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

gigatons of CO2e emissions globally in 2015). ? Packaging accounts for 5.4% Production of paper and pulp for food packaging generates an average of 59.9 Emissions from the food retail sector tripled between 1990 and 2015 from increased demand for refrigeration to prevent food spoiling. of food system emissions. ?

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Online retail giant will instead use 100 per cent recycled and 100 per cent recyclable packing paper in its parcels. Plastic packaging will continue to be used in only a small number of scenarios, the company said, including in bad weather where products are left on the doorstep and to avoid spillages.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

This is despite providing more than $1.7tr since January 2015 to 40 companies with significant involvement in global plastics supply chains, the report finds. Banks have fallen far behind the crowd of other actors that contribute to the plastic pollution crisis," said Liz Gallagher, Portfolio Earth director.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ecocem’s revenues have tripled since 2015 and it expected revenues of around €230m in 2023. Decarbonizing packaging Since the 1950s, the world has produced over 9 billion tons (bt) of plastics. Of these plastics, around 36% are used in packaging. Aluminum represents approximately 2% of all European packaging by weight.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Emissions from farm to table to landfill Emissions are generated at every stage of the food system, from the production of food on farms to transport and refrigeration to processing and packaging to consumer dietary choices and, ultimately, to food waste. Seventy percent of total food system emissions come from land-use change.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Q2, it hit a nadir of 29 megawatts installed, slightly more than one-tenth of its peak of 272 megawatts in Q4 2015. This recovery followed a shift to push solar sales online and guide customers to pre-packaged rather than customized options. Instead of dropping further, it bounced back to 43 megawatts.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In Jordan, the EBRD’s technical support and a 2015 loan worth up to $21 million helped poultry company Al Jazeera Agricultural Company upgrade its facilities and expand its retail presence. Three years later, in 2016, Country Bird also became KFC’s sole franchisee in Zambia. as clients. “We

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

This is why leaders across hard-hit sectors, including aviation, shipping and rail giant Rolls-Royce, fashion retailer H&M and food, drink and hospitality company Diageo, are placing new plans for net zero emissions at the core of their Covid-19 recovery efforts. And it will help us make that 2015 promise a reality.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

"By giving generators the chance to secure a longer-term agreement with lower returns in place of selling electricity at wholesale market prices, this scheme would be a significant first step to decoupling gas from retail electricity prices," said Adam Berman, deputy director of EnergyUK.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For example, a retailer striving to reduce its packaging waste may consider eliminating plastic bags; identifying the best alternative given the tradeoffs of paper and cloth bags may require an LCA. has set a goal to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from its full value chain 27% by 2025, and 67% by 2050, compared to a 2015 baseline.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The new report highlights inspiring, regionally diverse examples from the packaging, steel, cement, agri-food, transport, and retail sectors showing businesses which are advancing ambitious goals through circularity, innovation and new partnerships to slash emissions and thrive in the European economy. billion in 2023.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Major retailers including H&M have begun to trial such services too. Yet despite these changes, Hubbub's polling reveals there is still considerable consumer confusion as to what constitutes ‘sustainable fashion', with the focus largely tending to sway towards plastic packaging concerns?rather

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry. Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, 2014 This film uncovers the nasty truth behind food waste , from farms to retail consumption. The images and reporting cover 20 locations over the course of four years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Given such support, hopes are high that a blueprint for such a treaty, touted by the UN as potentially the most important environmental accord since the Paris Agreement in 2015, could well emerge from talks. And today, packaging giant Tetra Pak announced it has co-invested over €11.5m Some efforts are being made.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi's innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The Chancellor has announced a package of measures to ease the burden on households following the rise in the energy price cap. Our domestic energy retailers are competing to buy the oil and gas extracted in the North Sea from these companies. Indeed, the energy crisis has become a hot political topic.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

First of all, food loss and food waste are two distinct issues: Food loss is chronologically the first piece, and refers to any degradation that occurs from harvest up to, but not including , retail sale. Food waste is everything that happens after retailers or food service businesses get a hold of the product.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 11, 2023

The SCDP will seek to provide a location dataset for global supply chains such as palm oil, soy, cotton, rubber, mills, factories and wood-based packaging applications to increase resilience to climate change. The growing need for soy fields in food production is having a negative impact on biodiversity.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The tech giant is increasingly confident it can, and this week unveiled a sweeping package of new investments and initiatives designed to slash emissions across its sprawling global supply chain.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In October, Starbucks announced it would ramp up hiring of people of color to at least 30 percent of the corporate workforce and 40 percent of retail and manufacturing by 2025. Motivated to decarbonize, digitize and customize, Gutierrez has been advancing an integrated-power strategy to bring generation and retail together.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. Coffee beans have been grown in East Timor for more than 400 years. "To

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

“Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. ” With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi’s innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

“Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. ” With that mindset, Dillinger led the design of Levi’s innovative Wellthread shirts, jackets and jeans, which launched in 2015.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere. Coffee beans have been grown in East Timor for more than 400 years.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

A partner in the firm’s Paris office, with more than 20 years’ tenure, Auberger previously led Baker McKenzie’s consumer goods and retail practice. Like many consumer products companies, the HP sustainability team is also focused on reducing the impact of its packaging — its goal is to eliminate 75 percent of single-use plastics by 2025. .

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

When he offered her a job leading the company’s global sustainable packaging initiative, she jumped at it. Her clients at PwC include corporations from the energy, transportation and retail sectors, government agencies and nonprofits with goals in biodiversity, circular economy, climate change, social inclusion and human rights.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2020

NV Energy pushed state regulators to pass a 2015 decision that would have slashed compensation for existing as well as new net-metered customers, a move that prompted a backlash from solar advocates and led state lawmakers to reinstate the program in 2017.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

on April 17, 2013, a fire was reported at West Fertilizer, an agricultural-products retailer that had served farmers in Central Texas since 1962. An exemption in the standard for retail facilities absolved their owners of responsibilities such as hazard evaluation, employee training, and compliance audits, the GAO found.

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