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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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‘Narratives of Delay’: How the Animal Pharma Industry Resists Moves to Curb the Overuse of Antibiotics on Farms 

DeSmogBlog

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., and Zoetis Inc.

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UK Government Launches Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

Green , and James Bee On 17 January 2024, the government launched the Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy (the strategy), which aims to safeguard UK supplies of goods including medicine, minerals, and semiconductors. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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AstraZeneca promises to get to net zero 10 years ahead of schedule

Business Green

The move will see AstraZeneca accelerate its plans to cut carbon, with the firm promising yesterday to double energy productivity, use 100 per cent renewable energy, and reduce total energy consumption by 10 per cent from a 2015 base, all by 2025.

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AstraZeneca advances plan for climate-friendly inhalers

Business Green

per cent less Global Warming Potential (GWP) than propellants currently used in respiratory medicines. AstraZeneca said it now expects Breztri to be its first medicine to transition to the new near-zero climate impact inhaler, subject to regulatory approval. Want to help celebrate and showcase the best of the green economy?

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‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’

DeSmogBlog

The facility is located just down the street from a high school football stadium and less than 1,000 feet from a set of city drinking water wells, raising public health concerns from a nuclear forensics scientist about the extent of possible radioactive contamination.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

The report defines a cultivated meat as one which has been produced using tissue engineering techniques that have been pioneered in regenerative medicine. However, the report warns the industry is still a long way from being commercially viable, as well as being acceptable to consumers. "As