Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Environmental NGO WRAP is using COP29 to highlight the need for countries to include food loss and waste in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). A new report shows that, of the 195 countries attending COP29, only 12 have committed to reducing food waste and just 17 to tackling food loss.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Originally published in FedEx's 2024 Global Economic Impact Report Delivering a more sustainable future FedEx works hard every day to make global supply chains smarter for everyone by leveraging advanced technologies to help optimize logistics. The facility is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certified.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this Teal Talks episode, we hear from leading environmental experts on the impacts of climate change on health and how businesses can make a difference. DESCRIPTION: Climate change doesn’t only affect the health of our planet — it also impacts the health of our people. Climate vulnerability.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 5, 2023 /3BL/ - My Green Lab, the world’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the sustainability of scientific research, today announces the launch of Converge, a collaborative supply chain initiative.

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GreenBiz

MAY 15, 2020

From global cotton supply chains to pollution from textile factories, the need to improve the industry in favor of both people and the planet is pressing. . Kirstie Dabbs: What inspired you to begin writing about the fashion industry and climate change? There's just so much waste in this industry. Kirstie Dabbs.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe. Over 1,000 companies have committed to science-based targets for climate change, but the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) thinks companies need to start making science-based commitments on nature as well as for climate. Jesse Klein.

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Environment + Energy Leader

AUGUST 30, 2022

It also hopes to ensure its product supply chain only uses renewable electricity by 2030. . The post Apple Is Tackling Climate Change by Using Renewables, Increasing Recycling, Limiting Waste appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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3BL Media

MARCH 7, 2022

The award addresses how Essity successfully has worked with its suppliers in the fight against climate change. Essity has been recognized by CDP on a number of previous occasions for the company’s work against deforestation and has been referred to as a leader in combating climate change. About Essity.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. One company can’t solve climate change’. Achieve carbon-neutral computing to address climate change. This is a longstanding practice for Intel, something the company has done since 2008. It has also restored more than 1.6 billion gallons of water.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Weve also begun working more strategically with key partners, and weve seen incredible commitment from across our community to tackle the twin crises of climate change and social inequality. I recently met with a manufacturer whose supply chain endured 723 audits in a single year. Theres so much to be proud of.

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3BL Media

APRIL 16, 2024

Developed by WWF and tested with members of the Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Food Waste Coalition and their growers, the tool provides a user-friendly and simplified approach to help farmers and their buyers identify and address the cause of their on-farm food loss and its associated impacts, such as scope 3 emissions.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Some of those memes get traction — “zero waste” and “net zero” are two relatively recent examples that are having their moment. Rather, the surge of attention to companies’ climate-risk profile appears to be the tipping point of a yearslong pursuit to flip the script on the conversation about business and climate change.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

And climate change remains a big one. . More specifically, Amazon's air shipping business, which along with its entire global logistics supply chain juggernaut is booming. . A startup called Infinium announced it has raised a round of funding including backing from Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund. Supply Chain.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, plastics are the building blocks for packaging that prevents food waste and its associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ― already estimated at 6% of global GHG emissions.* For context, our German asset will have the potential to convert the hard-to-recycle plastic waste of 1.2

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2025

Water stewardship and sustainable business strategy The first key point Emilio underscored was the irrefutable link between climate change and water scarcity: From severe water shortages to heat waves to water pollution, the impacts of climate change are increasingly expressed through our water systems.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

The process of handling disrupted supply chains, shifts in demands and business models and modes of communication; governance and decision-making changes during leadership under lockdown. The question is whether states can regulate and try cases having to do with climate change. "As The risks of not sharing.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. But there were many valuable lessons learned over the past 12 months. .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Pollution and waste: Production processes often generate significant waste and emissions, impacting air, soil, land, and water quality. Climate change: The industry is susceptible to the effects of climate change, such as supply chain disruptions due to extreme weather events.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 28, 2024

With the need to tackle global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution, circularity is becoming increasingly important for businesses and organisations around the world.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. I am witnessing the increase in education ignite behavior changes in some communities: less meat; less waste; more conscious decisions. .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Food loss and waste is a critical environmental, social and governance problem requiring urgent whole-of-chain action. The Consumer Goods Forum Food Waste Coalition of Action is committed to cutting food loss and waste —some 40% of all food grown is wasted. How can we help more people to waste less food?

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3BL Media

AUGUST 21, 2023

Some of these greenhouse gases are produced from healthcare facilities; others are the result of the industry’s supply chain of goods and services. Our ambitious effort will involve reevaluating every aspect of business and making changes to support achieving net-zero emissions along the company’s entire value chain.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Retraced, a Germany-based online platform that enables apparel brands to digitize, trace, and analyze sustainability compliance and risks in their supply chains, announced Wednesday that it had raised €15 million in a Series A funding round.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 10, 2022

Carbon dioxide tends to take all the heat for climate change, but methane is responsible for around 30% of global warming since the Industrial Revolusion. Rotting food and other organic waste created 20% of methane emissions in 2021. What are some solutions? Cut back on meat.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2021

The Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO). Certified Climate Change Professional (CC-P) for mid-career professionals. CC-P Candidate Pilot Program for young professionals or professionals transitioning to a career in climate change. CDP Climate Change Survey Certification.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

A lorry [a large motor truck] makes a delivery to a store and it collects all of the waste from that particular store and it brings that waste back to a central recycling center, which is on the Nottingham side of the Boots business. Climate change will not be reversible in the same way that COVID will be — hopefully — by a vaccine.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The benefits of anaerobic digestion for recycling various kinds of organic farm waste are far-reaching — including waste management, renewable energy generation, GHG reduction, economic advantages and agricultural sustainability. As with food production and food waste, you can’t have dairy cows without manure.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Traditional accounting methods do not fully capture the externalized costs of economic activities in the food and agricultural space, and this shortcoming is becoming more apparent because climate change is intensifying the focus on sustainable development. And] what about the climate costs?" Climate Change.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2024

At COP29 , there was significant discussion about how a circular approach focused on rethinking supply chains, redesigning products, and optimizing resources could reduce dependency on finite materials while driving sustainable economic growth. Central to this is aligning sustainability and financial priorities.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 10, 2025

Climate change continues to challenge industries and communities worldwide, but businesses have a unique opportunity to lead the way in creating a sustainable future. 5 May: Minimize Office Waste Ahead of summer events and projects, tackle waste reduction by conducting a waste audit.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

and United Arab Emirates, September 14, 2023 /3BL/ - IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced its role as an Associate Pathway Partner of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). The company issued its first environmental policy more than 50 years ago—in 1971—and published a formal position on climate change in 2007.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

UK-based multinational grocery retailer Tesco announced a series of new climate-focused commitments, including interim goals to reduce Scope 3 emissions originating in its supply chain at the forest and agricultural level, and a target to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions from its own operations by 85% by 2030.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

PARIS, November 16, 2023 /3BL/ - The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s Food Waste Coalition of Action has today released its first baseline report , presenting operational food surplus and waste aggregated data from sixteen of its retailer and manufacturer members. Total food waste across the cohort was 2.12 billion tonnes.

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ESG Today

JULY 30, 2024

Fashion-tech startup unspun announced today that it has raised $32 million in a Series B funding round, with proceeds aimed at scaling its technology to reduce waste and carbon emissions in the fashion sector. It also said its process is more efficient, with less than 3% waste of cut fabric compared to the industry average of 15%.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In late 2020, the company is finding early commercial success in its mission to decrease food waste through its innovative packaging. Hazel promises an improved product and customer experience, fewer rejections from retailers, a higher-quality product that can be priced higher and less waste along the way. And decrease food waste. .

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3BL Media

JANUARY 12, 2024

Everyone can see and feel the effects of climate change, from record-setting heat to intensified wildfires , so the need to prioritize pledges like reaching net-zero is not just a matter of meeting government regulations. Developing partnerships along the supply chain can also help cut through the data-gathering and reporting maze. “As

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