Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Build a resilient fashion brand company using sustainable fashion. billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Tip #5: Switch to sustainable shipping and packaging. Tip #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

Reports from CBI, EnergyUK, ECIU, and ScottishPower all hammer home calls for ambitious green recovery package. The government has been inundated with calls from green trade bodies, campaigners and academics for it to deliver a green stimulus package in recent weeks. The consensus keeps building.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. Uganda’s Hya Bioplastics was another startup to secure climate-related backing.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). A recent analysis by Carbon Brief noted that emissions have to fall 7.6

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2020

Spending and policy decisions made now must address both issues, ensuring we "bounce forward", to use EU Commission President von der Leyen's phrase, with plans that deliver the jobs needed for a successful transition to the net-zero economy, a significant reduction in emissions and increased resilience. Stimulus spending.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

I was particularly interested in the discussions around plastic packaging and waste throughout the event. One of the sessions I attended, Sewing Circular: Strategies in the Fashion Industry, discussed how people can transition away from "fast fashion" towards more resilient pieces of clothing that would last several times longer.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Government confirms £30m of new investment in a range of projects designed to enhance natural carbon sinks. Alongside the NetZeroPlus project the government and the UK Research and Innovation agency today announced new funding for projects exploring how to use peat, rock chips, and charcoal to expand natural carbon sinks.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Despite all the negativity, one of the silver linings emerging from the pandemic is how it has hit the reset button on nature. In the first four months of the year, carbon dioxide emissions declined by 17 per cent compared to the average levels in 2019. This time the seasonal effect overlapped with lockdowns.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2024

(Greentown Houston) Manufacturing BERKM ’s clay-based additive reduces the amount of plastic used in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging by up to 20 percent. Greentown Boston) Ensovi’s enzyme-based process for creating organic chemicals from CO 2 , renewable power, and water is carbon-negative and can be competitive with petroleum.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. Carbon doesn’t necessarily come free, in terms of its environmental burden,” Dunn said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That is the top line conclusion of a new report published this morning by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), which analyses nearly 170 companies working in carbon-intensive industrial sectors, including mining giant Rio Tinto, packaging company DS Smith, chemicals powerhouse BASF, cement manufacturer LaFarge Holcim, and steel major Tata Steel.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. Meanwhile, public polling suggests bailing out high carbon companies without attaching carbon reduction targets would be an unpopular move.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

This study complements a previous University of Oxford working paper, Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

It may not happen fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, but all around the world the disruption caused by increasingly cost competitive clean technologies and the growing clamour for green economic recovery packages demonstrate how net zero emission economies could emerge over the next three to four decades.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Schools of all types can minimize negative environmental impacts by changing how they operate starting with a few simple green practices and instilling this eco-mindedness into students. In addition, ask if the products can be shipped in fewer shipments to cut down on packaging waste and delivery emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

The trailed £3bn energy efficiency package was hugely welcome, even if questions remain over precisely how it will be administered and what will happen when the single year Budget is exhausted. But then once again the accompanying policy measures singularly failed to match the rhetoric.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails Heather Clancy Fri, 09/04/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (4:08). Today’s carbon-negative fuel. Read more here: Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

A myriad of small businesses like restaurants and food trucks are also negatively affected. Flooding of homes, businesses, and infrastructure like airports, ports, and subways, during heavy rainstorms would have a negative effect on companies’ abilities to operate. According to the U.S. How will businesses operate without electricity?

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. Food is often packaged in unnecessary plastic or other non-sustainable packaging – posing a waste problem of massive proportions. The human cost of food growth and production.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

In order to do this we must not fall back into the trap of our pre-Covid world by continuing to reinforce carbon-intensive structures. To begin with, our post Covid-19 recovery plans must avoid unconditionally propping up and bailing out carbon-heavy industries. First, we need a global price on carbon. It has to be green.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Due to the environmental harms associated with the use of these agrochemicals, the EU has made limiting their use a key plank among the measures included in its “Green Deal” — a historic package by the bloc to reduce its emissions in line with global climate targets.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To that end, Ofgem yesterday announced a fresh package of measures aimed at boosting financial resilience in the sector, including new stress testing all suppliers from January 2022 to measure their resilience against a range of scenarios. This is now the main obstacle holding back the UK's green industrial revolution.".

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

When you shift your tariffs to a zero-carbon tariff, you might think it is going to cost you more. Ultimately the Net Zero Test concludes that the overall spending package has the potential to reduce net emissions by 745 MtCO2e, but only over a 25-year period, and assuming future spending moments align with net zero," the report said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It was expected to stop short of advising people to turn down thermostats, turn off lights, and take showers rather than baths due to concerns that such guidance could have negative health impacts and be seen as excessively 'nannying'. per cent of their daily usage.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Turning mycelium into packaging that’s ‘compatible with the planet’ Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials. By 2013, following several years of studying, research and development, Hijosa had a Ph.D.,

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

When the US 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 per cent recyclable or compostable packaging by 2030. ADM to pioneer biofuels, more carbon capture projects. Okay, enough celebrating.

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Charged

JULY 9, 2020

The long list includes the following: Peak shaving Valley filling Negative demand response Coordinated charging Demand charge reduction Reserve provision Emergency backup Capacity firming Microgrids Voltage control Frequency regulation. The benefits which these non-utility participants bring to the grid are many and varied.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

"I just remember being super mad about knowing that the way society was operating could ruin something that should be so beautiful and fun," he says of his first encounter with the idea that human activities negatively affect the environment. But she noticed they only served pre-packaged, mass-produced, instant coffee grown elsewhere.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ecosystem services that underpin the global economy should recover, providing greater climate resilience, enhanced natural carbon sinks, and improved food and water security. Meanwhile, more than three per cent, £82bn, went to activities that had a 'negative' or 'strongly negative' impact on the environment.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

As such the Strategy is a deliberately narrow response to Dimbleby's independent review and is designed to focus on "longer-term measures to support a resilient, healthier, and more sustainable food system that is affordable to all" rather than short term measures to tackle rising food prices. There are 9.2

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AGreenLiving

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. When more than 190,000 humans died of COVID-19 globally, nearly five times the number one month earlier, and more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs. When the U.S. Fair enough.

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AGreenLiving

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. When more than 190,000 humans died of COVID-19 globally, nearly five times the number one month earlier, and more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs. When the U.S. Fair enough.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Squandering finite resources, creating extravagant amounts of waste, and the excessive release of carbon emissions is causing our planet to belch at the seams. Carbon in our atmosphere is 280 parts per million (ppm). Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Carbon in the atmosphere is 310 ppm. Our reality.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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