GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Within its own operations — it has 21,000 employees and offices in 50 countries — BCG is aiming to reduce direct energy and electricity emissions by 90 percent per full-time employee against a baseline measurement of 2018, according to the new set of commitments the company announced Tuesday.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 In 2018, Transocean (yes, the folks who brought you the BP oil spill) charged Chevron $830 million ($445,000 a day) for one rig for five years. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Renting one isn’t cheap, either.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A new study has found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from poor air quality caused by fossil fuel combustion.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 18, 2021

Which is why Californians overwhelmingly passed animal welfare initiative Proposition 12 in 2018. While eating meat is the norm in the U.S., many people wish farm animals a happier life pre-burger.

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Jim Conca

MARCH 12, 2021

America landfilled 27 million tons of plastic in 2018 but only recycled 3 million tons. We just aren’t recycling the materials that we need to recycle to address climate change as well pollution. It’s even worse worldwide.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2020

Back in 2018 when Lombok was struck by several earthquakes, some of which measured up to magnitude 7, local communities around the seismic region were greatly affected by loss. After the series of earthquakes settled, there were over 500 dead, 129,000 homes damages and 445,000 people homeless.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

8000Kicks hemp shoes opened in 2018 after founder Bernardo Carreira finished his business studies at Purdue University. He decided to make use of his grandmother Maria Otilia's 50 years of experience in the textile industry and launch a sneaker company with her.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A new report released by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that up to 14% of the world's coral reefs have been depleted due to climate change between the years 2009 and 2018. In the period under review, mass coral bleaching events were experienced due to warming waters.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 15, 2020

In 2018, architecture firm FabrikG completed the home, which is located in an off-grid community about five and a half miles from downtown San Jose del Cabo on the East Cape hillside. This stunning 4,585 square foot home in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico exemplifies sustainable indoor-outdoor living at its finest.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The total volume of household waste generated in Scotland remained largely the same as 2018, up 17,000 tonnes (an increase of 1%) from 2.41 million tonnes in 2018 to 2.42 The carbon impact of household waste generated and managed in 2018 was 5.7 This was a decrease of 94,000 TCO2e from 2018 and a decrease of 1.1

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2022

Our voluntary reporting is informed by the following frameworks: The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) for the Technology & Communications Sector, Software & IT Services industry (Version 2018-10) The Financial Stability Board (TCFD) The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) The Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) (..)

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

In 2018, research suggests data centers were responsible for about the same amount of carbon emissions as aviation. Between 2010 and 2018, computing output jumped sixfold — but energy consumption rose only 6 percent. The data center example. Data centers are energy hogs.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

percent) in 2018. As the GSIA latest report was published in 2018, we are yet to see how Taiwanese investors compare to their global peers for the past year. This is relatively higher than the proportion of sustainable investment assets to total AUM of investors in the U.S. percent) or Japan (18.3

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Between 2015 and 2018, the consumption of renewable natural gas by natural gas fleets grew by 475 percent, and in 2019 in California, 80 percent of the natural gas used for transportation was renewable.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Loblaws met its target in 2018 by sourcing recycled or certified fiber. The launch of the New Plastics Economy Commitment in 2018 spurred over 200 businesses, including the largest companies such as Walmart, Target, Nestle and Unilever to aim for 100 percent reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic packaging by 2025. .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But even if the EU has met its 2020 climate goals — the region claims to have already reduced emissions by 23.2 percent in 2018 — the use of wood pellets raises important questions about the EU’s carbon accounting, [PDM1] and even more questions about public health and climate consequences for the U.S. “The

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

In 2018, the global packaged food industry generated $2.77 Her company’s software uses machine learning, artificial intelligence, data scraping and cohort analysis to recommend the most nutritious and more sustainable ingredients for food companies, such as its partners Ingredion and Unilever. .

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

recycling market has been in free fall since 2018, when China, Malaysia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries announced that they would no longer import many types of recyclable material scraps. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20. Holly Secon. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 00:45.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2018, Americans generated 292 million tons of trash ? About 12% of MSW was converted into energy by waste-to-energy plants in 2018, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). municipal solid waste (MSW) ? which is triple the amount generated 60 years ago.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

As a result, community projects swept the board in Germany’s 2017 and 2018 auctions, which together saw 5.1 gigawatts in 2018 and 5.3 “The rise in installations is largely attributed to the auction projects awarded back in 2017 and 2018," Barla said. gigawatts of capacity awarded. megawatt turbines.

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Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Installed battery storage capacity in California has grown from just 500MW in 2018 to more than 13,300MW at the latest count.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Since 2018, The UK Plastics Pact has changed how the UK makes, uses and disposes of plastics. Target two – 100% of plastics reusable or recyclable – 70% of packaging is recyclable today, up from 66% in 2018. 92% of rigid plastic packaging is now recyclable under the Pact, up from 81% in 2018.

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GreenBiz

JULY 26, 2021

In 2018, every ton of steel produced emitted about 1.85 Addressing industrial emissions and harmful particulate matter, such as those produced by steel mills, continues to be a difficult challenge. . Consider that right now, the steel industry is among the three biggest producers of carbon dioxide.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Yet about six months in as president and COO at Starbucks, she was terrified in 2018 to hear that two Black men had been arrested needlessly at one of its Philadelphia stores. I felt like it happened under my watch.".

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Renew Economy

JUNE 20, 2024

In 2018, Ziggy Switkowski said the "window for gigawatt-scale nuclear has closed." Now he is defending the Coalition's uncosted nuclear plan. The post Ziggy Switkowski and another big nuclear back-flip appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

Back in 2018, Ecologic worked with L’Oreal to release its Seed Phytonutrients product line in paper bottles. That package has been touted as the first shower-safe paper bottle made in the beauty industry.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Unilever acquired plant-based meat company The Vegetarian Butcher in late 2018 and since has expanded the brand into more than 30 countries and secured a major supply deal for the firm's vegan patties and nuggets with Burger King. The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant said last week that it plans to sell more than $1.2

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

by 2040, compared to levels in 2018. On nutrient pollution, the new targets are to “reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution from agriculture to the water environment by at least 40% by 2037 against a 2018 baseline” – 2018 being the most recent year where data is available. particulate pollution in the air from 20 ?g/m

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 18, 2023

Because since 2018, Salt & Straw has celebrated Veganuary by featuring five carefully crafted vegan flavors. In my Portland, Oregon household, we spend way more time thinking about and eating vegan ice cream than we probably should. And come January, we get very interested in what our local ice cream shop gone national is doing.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

In May, I spoke with another intriguing agroforestry startup, Propagate Ventures , part of the fall 2018 cohort at Elemental Excelerator. The company, which recently raised $1.5 million in seed funding from the Grantham Environmental Trust, is focused on helping agricultural operations figure out how to profit from planting trees. .

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Food company Kraft Heinz has been relatively quiet about its corporate sustainability strategy in the five years since it was formed through the merger of food giants Kraft and Heinz — stepping out in early 2018 to provide an update.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

Jared Polis won the 2018 election on his call for the state to adopt a 100-percent renewables by 2040 target, and continues to press lawmakers for a more aggressive policy. In 2018, Public Service Co. Xcel Energy, which owns Public Service Co. of Colorado, the state’s biggest utility with about 1.4

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A 2018 study published by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that FPV could generate about 10 percent of total U.S. That represents between 10 and 40 percent of worldwide electricity consumption in 2018, according to data from the International Energy Agency.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

According to a Prepared Foods report , 44 new fermentation companies launched in late 2019 and early 2020, a 91 percent increase compared to 2018. . And there is about to be even more competition. But it looks like there will be plenty of money to go around.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For perspective, the market for agricultural equipment was sized at $139 billion in 2018, and it’s expected to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 8.9 percent through 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In 2018, when cleaning equipment in a municipal rainwater collection facility in the German town of Nastätten was repeatedly becoming blocked and was also deemed outdated, the municipality decided to modernise.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

emissions in 2018. A landmark 2018 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested the price tag of unchecked climate change will run from $54 trillion to $69 trillion. They also create daunting challenges for business. percent per capita by 2100.

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