GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

For the vast majority of countries, recovery spending has been relatively low and not particularly green, according to the report, with any benefits from the greener elements contained in stimulus packages often undermined by concurrent fossil fuel and consumer-focused spending program. billion has been spent on low-carbon transport, $28.9

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When she realized microbes could create carbon-negative materials for applications across vegan leather, insulation, packaging, and more, González co-founded SpadXTech with mechanical engineer Connor Crawford in 2020. The pair got married this summer. “My

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

German industrial and consumer products manufacturer Henkel announced on 17 October that it has produced bottles using chemically recycled plastic for the first time, working in collaboration with packaging manufacturer Alpla. Mechanical recycling is limited by the fact that not all plastic waste can be reprocessed into useable material.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Offsetting versus insetting.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

services sector posted its biggest contraction in more than a decade and the price of oil turned negative for the first time in history. Campbell Soup to transition to 100% recyclable or compostable packaging by 2030. ADM to pioneer biofuels, more carbon capture projects. When the U.S. More than 300 companies push U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2023

McDonald’s is at the forefront of a campaign against new laws to reduce packaging waste in the EU, in what has been described by some insiders as the largest-scale lobbying effort they have ever witnessed in the European Parliament. The call follows mounting pressure from industry over the past year.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. The organization is working directly with manufacturers, including scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher, to set benchmarks on products and packaging design. That includes moving toward 100 percent renewables and a fully electric fleet.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Germany has just approved a €45 billion ($49 billion) compensation package for the shutdown of its entire coal power fleet by 2038. ” “As an engineer, it really concerns me because the only problem with conventional power is that they're polluting the environment; it's a very, very big negative.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Activists fighting deforestation in Indonesia have spoken out against calls from the packaging and fast food industry for paper-based packaging to be recognised as sustainable in EU law. The European Commission launched its Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulations in November 2022.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

So either ranchers figure out how to produce low-carbon beef — and it’s far from certain they can — or we eat less red meat. News of the plan was greeted by negative headlines, followed by a hurried assurance from Downing Street that "we will not be imposing a meat tax on the great British banger." He didn’t mull it over for long.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 4, 2022

From carbon emissions via the shipping, manufacturing, and order fulfillment processes, to excess packaging on the consumer end. When it comes to eCommerce waste generation, plastic packaging is one of the industry’s most glaring issues. For emissions that can’t be reduced, look to purchase carbon offsets.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. Sappi is a leading global provider of dissolving pulp and of everyday biobased materials created from renewable resources, from packaging paper to biomaterials such as nanocellulose.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Those are the stark findings of two separate report published today, which - less than 100 days ahead of the crucial COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow - together provide a stark assessment of the potentially carbon intensive nature of the global economic recovery. Only around 10.6 Only around 10.6 per cent this year and by 2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2023

These show that Puraffinity’s new material performs better by lasting longer and treating three times the amount of GenX contaminants compared with current ion exchange and activated carbon technologies. Our adsorbent material binds the GenX contaminants like lego blocks as the water flows past,” explained Puraffinity CEO Henrik Hagemann.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Green company kitchens, lunchrooms and cafeterias should include sustainable food choices, eco-friendly food packaging and serving containers, proper waste management, employee training on sustainability and green purchasing policies. and these travel miles add up to huge amounts of carbon emissions. Sustainable Food Choices.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The steps that the U.K. billion) a year.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 5, 2022

“By introducing carbon-negative homes and smart-grid powered developments…we’re proving that greener homes can be delivered at commercial scale,” stated Sarwjit Sambhi, CEO of St. Modwen’s first carbon-negative homes, a trial that makes homes airtight to enable them to return power to the UK grid.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tech giant Microsoft has this week formally joined the European Corporate Leaders Group (CLG Europe), building on its recent commitment to become a net negative emission company. The company also pledged to invest $1bn to support the creation of carbon reduction and removal technologies through the Carbon Investment Fund.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A leading UK fruit producer's goal to grow carbon negative apples, pears, cherries, and more is one step closer to reality, after the firm announced a partnership with energy services giant ENGIE to aid its transition to more sustainable methods of production.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

Any shortfall in that support should be covered by federal funding, including proceeds from the new carbon tax, Teyssen said Tuesday. Reduced demand during the coronavirus lockdown, coupled with ample wind and solar generation, has seen German power prices go negative, even more so than usual. This would hit consumers hard, E.ON

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Tip #3: Choose materials that do not include toxins : Even materials that are biodegradable and recyclable can negatively impact the environment. Examples include opting for cardboard packaging over non-recyclable plastic packaging. Such materials can contain caustic or toxic chemicals which harm human and environmental health.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

We have to act much, much faster and go further in reducing the carbon footprint. New strategies will have to be created to align the company goals with the most basic climate-related requirements, such as setting targets to reduce carbon emissions. Success could help make the basin carbon-negative.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

BrewDog has joined a trial of over 80 products with reusable packaging available in Tesco. Craft beer company BrewDog has today introduced returnable beer bottles in partnership with the packaging re-use service Loop.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Apple committed on Tuesday to becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, pushing its ambitions far beyond its own corporate walls — already 100 percent powered by renewables — to include its vast supply chain and the lifecycle of all its products. Apple will increasingly rely on carbon-removal programs. technology giants.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

Distinctions between benefits of product, package, and service: Marketers should be clear as to which aspect of a product or service the environmental claim refers to. It’s deceptive to misrepresent directly or by implication that a product, package, or service offers a general environmental benefit. Carbon Offsets. Free Claims.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences. They maximize captures of high quality, high carbon-intensity material while reducing litter. As of 2021, the IVAR IKS ranks 1st in Norway in post-consumer plastic packaging collection rates.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

UK, Germany, South Korea among nations offering up green stimulus measures but these are still dwarfed by carbon-intensive bailouts, according to Vivid Economics. Across 17 major economies, announced stimulus packages will pump trillions of dollars directly into sectors that have a large and lasting negative impact on nature.".

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

recession led ratings agencies Moody's and S&P to lower to "negative" their outlooks for utilities and power generation projects over the past week. EIA’s new outlook lines up with the vast majority of expert opinion on the COVID-19 outbreak’s negative effect on power markets across the globe. EIA expects that 19.4

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As understanding of the climate crisis increases and the harm to ourselves, the environment, business, industry, and the economy that will follow, so a desire to not only reduce carbon but to be seen reducing carbon increases. In both cases, carbon offsetting removes CO 2 from the environment.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

According to the survey of over 1,000 senior business decisionmakers, 29 per cent said UK businesses have a strategy for achieving carbon net zero. We need to see more industries commit to a robust strategy to reduce their environmental impact, whether that be through use of electric vehicles, cleaner energy supplies or reduced packaging.".

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

The good news is that new technologies and methods have come about making it possible for the manufacturing industry to reduce its environmental footprint through energy conservation , alternative packaging, and smarter storage and organization (amongst other solutions). Tip #3: Use alternative and sustainable packaging solutions.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

As MEPs enter talks over EU Council's €1.8tr recovery package and budget deal, many key green questions remain. Of the overall €1.8tr package encompassing the recovery funding and the 2021-27 budget, EU leaders agreed that 30 per cent should be earmarked for the bloc's climate objectives and transition to net zero.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2019

New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled Europe's Green Deal on Wednesday, a package of 50 far-reaching policy ideas that are still missing many key details, calling it a "man on the moon moment" for Europe. Effective carbon pricing and climate compatible taxes are also in the works.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent report from the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) calls for the government to introduce a strategic policy approach to deliver rapid and widespread industrial decarbonisation, while guarding against the risk of carbon leakage.

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