Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2020

Defra announces plan to double 5p plastic bag charge and extend levy to all retailers from next year. The 5p charge on plastic bags is being ramped up to 10p and will be extended to all retailers in England from April next year, under plans aimed at curbing waste plastic pollution that will be announced by the government today.

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Retail Plastics Government Waste 80

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Coop in Denmark led the way when the retailer stopped selling microwave popcorn until it could offer its private brand product without the harmful chemicals typically used on the inside of the bag. By 2015, it had a 100 percent bio-based PET bottle, as other companies are looking to do the same. Since 2010, Procter & Gamble had a 13.5

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

The annual demand could reach 19,120,458,891 tons by then, representing a tenfold increase from 2015 to 2050. . He is targeting pricing of $4/kg wholesale and $5/kg retail. . Deployed at scale, hydrogen from all sources could account for almost 20 percent of energy consumed by 2050, projects the Hydrogen Council.

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Demand Hydrogen Technology Energy 508

Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Defining a product as vegan is more complex than many think, but new industry guidelines aim to help retailers assure consumers. Industry body the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has published new guidelines to help its members identify if a product is vegan or not.

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Retail Ethics Fashion Law 67

GreenBiz

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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Recycling Recycling Upcycling Waste 539

Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Retail giant Target announced it has completed its 500th rooftop solar installation. The company announced in 2015 that it wanted to add solar to 500 locations by 2020. Target reached its target ahead of schedule.

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Retail Solar Power Electricity 94

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Millions of retail electricity customers in the United States buy voluntary clean power, meaning renewable energy beyond what load-serving entities such as utilities otherwise provide. Beginning in around 2015, these customers began pressing utilities for large-scale voluntary clean power products. Utility "green" pricing programs.

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Retail Demand Electricity Energy 227

Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

ImpactAlpha, February 11 – Chennai-based WayCool got its start in 2015 to improve farmer livelihoods in and around Chennai by connecting them directly to retailers and other buyers. Today the company handles more than 300 tons of fresh fruit, vegetables and other products supplied by 40,000 smallholder farmers daily.

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Soil Retail Agriculture 89

GreenBiz

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. After the contentious exit of David Crane , who was leaning hard into the disruptive power of renewables, COO Gutierrez became CEO overnight in 2015.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Enel distributes power to 73 million customers and has 71 million of its own retail customers. Enel declared a major strategic shift in 2015 when it set out to focus on renewable power generation. The company's share price is up 90 percent since 2015, and its shareholder dividend has doubled. Bottom line just fine.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Europe 130

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I live in SRP (Salt River Project) territory — a utility known as being one of the first to put residential solar customers on a separate rate plan with demand charges in 2015. But for the last several years, the original 2015 rate structure has been the status quo for new solar customers in SRP. cents to 6.2

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 188

Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

Retailer issues its first sustainability-linked bond aimed at supporting efforts to reduce its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. year maturity and is the first bond of its kind to be issued by a retailer, Tesco said. The €750m sustainability-linked bond offers an 8.5 global warming trajectory. global warming trajectory.

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Retail Global warming Sustainability Demand 101

Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

Number of single-use plastic bags supplied by supermarkets has fallen 97 per cent since the 2015 introduction of the plastic bag charge tax. The charge was last year increased to 10p per plastic bag and extended to all UK retailers. Defra said the results represented a huge drop on the 7.6

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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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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 18, 2020

DER capacity in 2015 but will make up less than half by 2025. The most critical factors include retail rates, consumer demand, and macroeconomic conditions related to COVID-19.  The DER resource mix is evolving quickly away from non-residential load management, which made up two-thirds of all U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

The manifesto lays out the retailer's vision for a low-carbon future and the actions it will take to get there, ahead of the crucial COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow later this year. The firm also confirmed its 2020 emissions were 50 per cent lower than 2015, easily beating its 1.5C-aligned warming trajectory.

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Retail Climate change Methane Transportation 91

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2023

Renewable energy retailer Octopus Energy US is partnering with Enphase Energy, Inc., They will be able to optimise how a customer’s battery interacts with the electric grid through Intelligent Octopus, a smart device retail energy plan. Founded in the UK in 2015, the energy major expanded its offerings to the US in 2020.

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Government data has shown the introduction of the 5p plastic bag levy in large shops in England in 2015 led to a 95 per cent reduction in single-use plastic bag usage, but campaigners have warned the charge has led to a "huge increase" in sales of 'bags for life', which are thicker and require three times more plastic.

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Plastics Retail Pollution Government 94

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 16, 2020

Carlos García Buitrón, CEO and founder of the green power retailer Ecovatios, said he did not foresee electricity supply problems during the lockdown. percent in 2019 compared to 2018, the first year-on-year drop since 2015. REE figures cited by Spanish newspaper El Diario show electricity demand had already fallen 2.7

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Energy Energy Retail Europe 130

Enervee

JANUARY 13, 2020

households reported facing a challenge in paying energy bills or sustaining adequate heating and cooling in their home in 2015 – despite billions of dollars spent on low-income bill subsidies and energy efficiency programs that have been implemented without much innovation for years.

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Energy Energy Retail Investment 78

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Walmart has dropped its lawsuit accusing Tesla and its subsidiary SolarCity of negligence leading to a spate of rooftop fires at its stores in exchange for a settlement that will keep more than 240 solar systems in place at retail outlets across the country. Terms of the settlement reached Tuesday in New York Supreme Court were not disclosed.

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Retail Electric vehicle Electricity Energy 100

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Spain’s booming renewable energy market is attracting the attention of an unlikely retail segment: mobile phone companies. In 2016, MásMóvil bought the Spanish mobile challenger brand Pepephone, which has been selling clean energy via its PepeEnergy subsidiary since 2015.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 130

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Along the way, I’ve spoken with airline consultants, fuel producers, carbon offset experts and industry critics, as well as with Shell executives, to understand the technologies and market drivers that could, over time, enable aviation to align with other industries in meeting the terms of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

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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. However, ASOS conceded that its overall emissions had increased.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

First established in 2005, the Courtauld Commitment has been updated to introduce more ambitious goals several times, with the latest 10-year programme started in 2015 setting out a range of targets to reduce waste, water use, and carbon emissions across the industry by 2025. billion meals.

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Waste Waste Carbon Climate change 98

Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Retailer set to start removing 'best before' dates from labels on over 300 fresh produce items nationwide this week in bid to cut down on food waste. By partnering with Neighbourly since 2015 we've ensured over 44 million meals are redistributed to local communities.

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Waste Waste Retail Innovation 81

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some of these facilities supply British and European seafood wholesalers, who in turn sell to supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons and other retailers; caterers supplying pubs, hotels and restaurants, schools and universities; and the National Health Service, the four-year investigation found.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

billion) investment that kicked off with the purchase of solid-state battery startup Sakti3 in 2015 and included the creation of a manufacturing plant in Singapore last year. Harmony Futeng, for example, is backed by the Chinese mobile app leader Tencent Holdings, while Xiaopeng Motors counts online retailer Alibaba as an investor.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Octopus Energy to bring retail business and 2.8GW renewables portfolio under single roof as it aims to match supply with generation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

The US food tech giant, which produces burgers and sausages made from alternative proteins for thousands of retailers and restaurants worldwide, announced Figureres appointment over the weekend, as the company sets its sights on further rapid expansion in response to growing interest in vegan and vegetarian diets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2020

NatWest Group have made large reductions in its own operational carbon footprint and have reduced emissions by 61 per cent between 2015 and 2019. Reduce our energy consumption 40 per cent by 2025 against its 2015 baseline ( EP100 ). Upgrade our job car fleet of around 300 vehicles to electric models by 2025 ( EV100 ).

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Carbon Retail Electric vehicle Electricity 85

Business Green

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, 92,000 tonnes of food worth £280m was saved from going to waste over the course of last year, according to the figures, marking a three-fold increase on levels seen when records began in 2015, according to WRAP. But we cannot rest on our laurels. I encourage all businesses to help and to ensure surplus food is redistributed.".

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Waste Waste Retail Government 73

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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Retail Global warming Carbon Waste 61

Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Across its global business and value chain, Mars has set science-based targets to reduce its total greenhouse gas emissions by 27 per cent by 2025, and 67 per cent by 2050, from 2015 levels. Within its own operations, meanwhile, the firm is targeting net zero emissions by 2040.

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Logistics Retail Solar Power Investment 84

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The green finance drive is designed to support Walmart's wider climate commitments, which in addition to reaching net zero by 2040, also include interim targets to reduce direct scope 1 and 2 emissions by 35 per cent in the next four years from a 2015 baseline, and by 65 per cent by 2030, all without relying on carbon offsets.

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Retail Waste Waste Climate change 68

Business Green

JULY 31, 2021

A raft of UK supermarkets and retailers have also threatened to boycott products from Brazil over a law proposed in Brazil's parliament that environmental campaigners claim could authorise yet further destruction of the rainforest. There were 243 major blazes in protected areas of the Amazon in 2015 - the worst recent year.

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