GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

For the environmentally minded, the increased adoption of app-based food delivery services presents a unique opportunity to affect carbon emissions in the food supply chain. One of the leading climate change solutions is the widespread adoption of a plant-rich diet, particularly in countries with a more "Western" diet.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

“ The Future of Workplace Sustainability Report ” explores how sustainability, climate change and COVID-19 are shaping the future of the workplace. ” This year Unily seemingly embarked on its own sustainability journey to actively review how they can do more as a company to reduce the impact of climate change.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 8, 2024

s key accomplishments toward building a more sustainable and equitable world, which has led to its inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America, recognition as one of TIME Magazine's Best Companies for Future Leaders and named to the USA Today's 2023 America's Climate Leaders list. "We Advanced Yum!’s

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A new independent assessment of COP26 and the critical next steps for the UK was published on 2 December by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). Glasgow was a step forward in global efforts to address climate change, including a genuine increase in ambition to reduce emissions worldwide. C and real-world delivery.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This is in addition to 13 per cent lost in the supply chain, according to the FAO. WRAP advises that countries are missing a golden opportunity to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and increase security of food supplies to their citizens by preventing food loss and waste.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 17, 2023

“Overcoming this threshold provides confidence that high-performance, low-cost PVs can be brought to the market,” write Stefaan De Wolf and Erkan Aydin , of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology , in Science magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Dr Burchell said: “We believe our technology directly addresses the critical gaps in the UK’s offshore renewable energy supply chain. Firstly, component supply: we offer an assembly line production of modular parts, alleviating supply bottle necks while offering engineering expertise to support large-scale deployment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Such restrictions can create barriers and hinder economic growth, affecting supply chains and market access. This involves implementing proactive risk management practices, conducting scenario planning, diversifying supply chains, and strengthening cybersecurity measures. percent impact on global GDP.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

Instead, Scope 3 are emissions that a company is indirectly responsible for, which are generated from both up and down its value chain. The bigger and more complex your supply chain, the more emissions will be associated with your organisation,” explained Williams.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

There’s a huge onus on the companies who produce them, or have some role in the production or supply chain, to make sure the information going out into the public domain is accurate,” says David Duffy, Co-Founder of the Corporate Governance Institute (CGI). This week, 29 investors with US$1.2

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

While we create sustainable products, we do have an international supply chain which results in a greater carbon footprint than if we were entirely UK-based. Supply chain and production costs are make or break for small businesses, and the associated carbon footprint is often beyond an owners control.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Respondents ranked the other most significant obstacles to scaling renewables as follows: market structures and design (75%), supply chain risks (61%), access to capital (48%), lack of investment in grid infrastructure (47%). Access to capital (48%: Funding the energy transition requires an enormous amount of capital.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Other initiatives include Sustainability Linked Loans and membership of the Supply Chain Sustainability School. “Through Workdry, Selwood will deliver a comprehensive Sustainability Action Plan in the next 12 months, setting out a clear road map and key milestones to reduce its impact on climate change and contribute to society.”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For the first time, the report separates and quantifies all of the carbon emissions throughout the BECCS scenario, including emissions associated with the most common supply chain for UK biomass electricity – wood pellets shipped from the US Southeast. ?.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

The reception, now in its 16th year, was hosted by Baroness Brown of Cambridge, who is chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Committee, which advises UK Government on climate risks and opportunities. As a sector we have an opportunity to do things differently.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

The document highlights the extremely high global warming potential of largely unrecorded methane leakages along the whole natural gas supply chain. To mitigate climate change, it is crucial to stop using all fossil fuels, to ban new natural gas boilers, and to massively ramp up renewable electricity production.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Improved reporting – across sectors, regions and supply chains – is crucial for addressing information gaps and informing global solutions.”. The exposure draft responds to these pressures, building on the latest authoritative insights and extensively revamping the 2016 Standard ( GRI 304 ).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

It suggests climate solutions from pre-planning, planning, funding and construction, through to sale, lease, occupation and reporting to clients, also taking in employment and supply chain/procurement considerations. TCLP publishes a breadth of freely available precedent clauses for use with a variety of sector contracts.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Private finance only accounts for 14%, including capital mobilized through sustainable agricultural and forestry supply chains, private equity investments, biodiversity offsets financed by private sectors, philanthropic capital, private finance leveraged by multilateral organizations and forest and other land use-related carbon markets.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

The OIM now wants to hear from a wide range of stakeholders including SMEs and others in the supply chain about their experience of dealing with regulatory changes in relation to single-use plastics. Restrictions introduced to date have been introduced at different times but have been similar in substance.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A detailed overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and its increasing emergence in the water and wastewater sector was the focus of British Water’s latest webinar, featuring speakers from Ofwat, Thames Water, and across the supply chain, including consultancies Jacobs and ExploreAI. billion by 2027.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

It is hoped the conference will help answer these key questions and look at how food production and environmental protection can work to solve two of the most critical issues facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Gail Tverberg

JULY 22, 2024

This change led to humans being able to outcompete all other animals. Eventually, this change led to populations outgrowing available resources and collapsing. According to Discover Magazine , pre-humans first began to build fires to cook food at least 800,000 years ago. A similar pattern holds for other resources, as well. [8]

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. Climate change is no longer a theoretical concept: it poses an existential threat to us all. New approach.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Global supply chains – global supply chains are fragile – supply chain resilience in the face of multiple, widely distributed, extreme weather events is critical to prevent price rises and shortages from cascading round the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

The UK Government, as hosts of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), has selected engineering, design and consultancy firm Arup to help it achieve its ambition of delivering a sustainable summit. COP26 is to be held at the SEC, Glasgow, in November 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the climate changes, many environmental factors come to the fore as a risk for businesses. The floods that many experienced this past summer are a reminder of the devastating consequences of climate change. Simon Crowther, founder of FPS Environmental , offers a rundown on planning for the possibility of flood.

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Sustainability Update

MARCH 29, 2022

With climate change at the forefront of today’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) discussion, and corporate ESG disclosures in focus, companies are being held more accountable for their overall environmental impact. Facility Executive Magazine. Boosting ESG Performance in Today’s Energy Supply Chains.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

Researchers in Scotland are investigating the potential of converting sewage sludge into a mineral-rich material that could be used to treat water impacted by eutrophication and algal blooms – a phenomenon increasingly affecting lochs and rivers, associated with climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A new suite of environmental intelligence software from IBM leverages AI to help organizations prepare for and respond to weather and climate risks that may disrupt business, more easily assess their own impact on the planet, and reduce the complexity of regulatory compliance and reporting.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2023

The report states that, without significant investment in skills and improvements to the supply chain, it could take several hundred years to install the measures needed to heat the region’s homes sustainably and reduce emissions to reach net zero.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Making the commitment means that your business will start to take immediate climate action in order to: halve greenhouse gas emissions before 2030, achieve net zero emissions before 2050, and disclose progress on a yearly basis. Several major multinational corporations have also committed to support the SME Climate Hub through a “1.5°C

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

In practice, this means that money will go towards meeting only the most basic of environmental standards instead of ring-fencing funds to reward landowners who want to take a more ambitious and large-scale approach to producing environmental and climate goods on their land.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Our dedication to corporate stewardship was also recognized within Forbes’ inaugural World’s Top FemaleFriendly Companies list, as well as by Newsweek magazine with the publication of its fourth annual America’s Most Responsible Companies 2023 list.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

The re-introduction of sugar beet production to Scotland – a move that could support national climate change targets, create green jobs, and unlock new economic opportunities – has taken a significant step forward after the pilot project laying its foundations received new funding.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Multiple initiatives have been launched: the UK Infrastructure Bank has been set up to prioritise investment in projects that tackle climate change, there are efforts to accelerate green finance, and green energy continues to receive subsidies to encourage construction and production of more renewable power.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 12, 2022

BECCS, coupled with the biomass supply chain that fuels power stations like Drax, isn’t even close to carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative.”. Elly Pepper, Senior Advocate for Cut Carbon Not Forests and NRDC also commented: “Drax’s biomass supply chain is so highly emissive, that with or without CCS, it makes climate change worse.

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