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These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green

Corporate Knights

That hard work is often hard to see, the product of millions of Canadians and thousands of businesses quietly, persistently adopting new approaches to life and work, eschewing waste, prioritizing collaboration and generally learning to do more with less. this year, up 9% over last year’s 49.7% – that’s compared to just 8.4%

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With 25% of Europe’s greenhouse emissions coming from buildings, scientists suggest fundamental policy changes

Envirotec Magazine

To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new buildings in the EU become nearly zero greenhouse gas emitters – so says a new report from the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC). Currently, between 1 and 1.5% says Norton.

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Tetra Pak Sustainability Report FY22: Taking Action on Climate

3BL Media

Replacing aluminium foil with a fibre-based layer Marking a breakthrough in our journey towards a fully renewable aseptic carton package, in 2002 we tested a fibre-based barrier to substitute the aluminium foil layer in aseptic carton packages, a first within food carton packages distributed under ambient conditions. Nature Food 2.3.

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The ESG Explainer: Advance Australia, Finally

Chris Hall

Investors are also deploying venture capital into earlier stage higher risk/return opportunities such as nature-based waste/resource recovery, and materials technology. These trends, the researchers say, are almost entirely due to Australia’s increasingly severe weather and are consistent with “predicted human-induced climate change”.

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Degrowth and the Global Movement for Environmental Justice

EJOLT

FD: The Atlas organizes almost two thousands cases in different categories, such as mining, waste disposal, tourism, biodiversity, water use, or public or private built infrastructure. With the Paris conference on climate change in December 2015, we saw that states are not able to bring up the courage needed to face the environmental crisis.