Combating climate change by transforming waste into value
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2022
Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.
How climate change can be addressed through executive compensation
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
How climate change can be addressed through executive compensation. Although many organizations have adopted ESG principles, executives and boards could do more to meet the demands of institutional investors, customers, employees and other stakeholders especially in regard to climate change risk. Nidia Martínez.
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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?
GreenBiz
APRIL 9, 2021
Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change? Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Aubrey McCormick. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 02:00. In the U.S.,
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In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech
GreenBiz
MARCH 1, 2021
In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech. The only sure path to stop climate change is to zero out greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. We are in a race to stop climate change, and we will have to use the fastest solutions we’ve got. Climate Change. Jonathan Foley.
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Combatting Climate Change by Transforming Waste into Value
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2022
Sponsored: Pentair’s sustainable gas technology is helping partners across industry minimize waste and emissions to help achieve a carbon neutral future.
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New York to Charge Oil Companies $75 Billion to Pay for Infrastructure to Cope with Climate Change
ESG Today
DECEMBER 30, 2024
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced the signing of the Climate Change Superfund Act, a new piece of legislation aimed at requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for a share, proportionate to their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, of the investments in infrastructure needed to adapt to climate change.
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We can do better: Redesigning climate change, biodiversity and plastic waste negotiations
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2024
Global negotiating processes must shift to achieve more meaningful climate results.
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Quest Diagnostics Advances Environmental Stewardship With Renewable Energy Initiatives, Waste Reduction, and ISO 14001 Certifications in 2023
3BL Media
DECEMBER 17, 2024
In addition, we have implemented programs to reduce the waste we generate. REDUCING AND ELIMINATING WASTE We have a multi-pronged approach to reduce waste generated and minimize waste to landfill. Quest implemented new programs to reduce waste generation, reuse materials where possible, and maximize recycling efforts.
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Packaging Waste and the Need for Sustainable Improvement
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
The second system is built environment, which is responsible for 40% of global GHG emissions, one-quarter of land system change and contributes to water stress. The third is manufactured goods, which contribute primarily to pollution and climate change through heavy material- and energy-intensive industrial activities at the production level.
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Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about
GreenBiz
JANUARY 6, 2021
Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about. For nearly two decades, Flowers, a recent awardee of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant ," has been bringing attention to failing water and waste sanitation infrastructure in rural areas. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 01/06/2021 - 01:30. Read an excerpt here.).
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Institute of Physics awards ‘revolutionary’ waste heat-to-electricity technology
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 11, 2024
A technology that converts low-temperature waste heat into electricity has earned the Institute of Physics (IOP) Business Innovation Award for FeTu, the Elland-based green energy business behind the approach. Businesses can use FeTus online calculator to evaluate their own waste-heat-to-electricity case at h2p.co.uk
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Households waste over one billion items every year that could be recycled
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 15, 2024
The UK’s annual Recycle Week launches today (15 October) with a warning that households are wasting over one billion items every year that could be recycled. In 2022, UK households produced 25,691,000 tonnes of waste of which 11,330,000 (44.1%) was recycled. JJ Chalmers, “We can all play our part in tackling climate change.
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Food waste contributes 10% to global emissions but 9 out of 10 countries’ NDCs fail to focus on food waste and loss
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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Climate Change: How It's Affecting Your Health and How Businesses Can Help Fight This Global Crisis
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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Essity Recognized by CDP for Its Supplier Engagement in Fight Against Climate Change
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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Innovating for a Greener Tomorrow: DP World Pioneers Sustainable Supply Chains in Latin America
3BL Media
MARCH 4, 2025
In Latin America, a region characterized by its diverse geography, reliance on natural resources, and pronounced social and economic disparities, the repercussions of climate change are particularly severe. This exacerbates existing inequities as the most vulnerable communities bear the brunt of climate-related adversities.
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Disrupting Waste Management in Emerging Markets: Four Lessons for Strengthening Businesses While Empowering Women and Communities
James Militzer
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
This is especially relevant for the waste management sector , which is further burdened by negative connotations associated with being a garbage collector or working for a garbage collection company. Located in Nairobi, Junky Bins aims to mitigate environmental pollution and disease while fostering employment.
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3 circular economy trends that defined 2020
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Notably, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development released the Circular Transition Indicators and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched the Circulytics tool; GRI established a new standard on waste ; and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute released the fourth version of its product standard.
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Can fossil fuel lobbyists be barred from global climate talks?
Corporate Knights
JANUARY 13, 2025
Coming at the end of what is going down as the hottest year on record, it was easy to feel that the annual meetings of signatories to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), plus the circus of non-governmental organizations, lobbyists and negotiators that has grown up around them, have failed to deliver.
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Let?s get together: Intel?s 2030 commitments include ?shared? climate and social goals
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
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Canada bans some single-use plastics; are takeout containers enough?
Corporate Knights
JUNE 24, 2022
Much of the eight million tonnes of COVID-related trash churned out globally in the first two years of the pandemic was medical waste, but in the sweatpants-clad blur of back-to-back lockdowns, there was also a sharp rise in the single-use plastics involved in getting burrito bowls, groceries and all-things-Amazon delivered to our front doors. .
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What does 'climate risk' actually mean?
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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The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers
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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Celebrating 10 female leaders in sustainability
GreenBiz
MAY 21, 2021
This year’s honorees (listed alphabetically) are: Jessica Aldridge , director of sustainability and zero waste programs, Athens Services. During this week’s ceremony, she read from two of her powerful poems, which touched on issues of social justice and climate change.
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New report reveals fast fashion's reliance on fracked gas in Texas
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Petrochemical-generated synthetic fibers such as polyester, nylon and acrylic are expected to make up for 73% of global apparel production by 2030, according to a report by the Changing Markets Foundation ,despite these fibers having links to exacerbated climate change, health risks and increased waste.
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Working With Our Clients To Reduce Their Environmental Impact
3BL Media
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Theyre taking measures such as cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions, keeping their waste streams out of landfills or adopting water recycling technologies. As a global leader in sustainable energy, waste and water operations with decades of experience, we work directly with our customers to achieve these triple net zero goals.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19
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.
What It Takes To Solve Plastic Pollution
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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Nuclear is back. Dealing with radioactive waste is tomorrow’s problem.
Corporate Knights
MARCH 22, 2024
In Europe, increasing efforts on climate change mitigation, a sudden focus on energy independence after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and reported breakthroughs in nuclear fusion have sparked renewed interest in the potential of nuclear power. Sweden and Finland have described KBS-3 as a world-first nuclear-waste management solution.
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Why Water Stewardship Is an Important Element in Sustainable Business Strategies
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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Vanguard Renewables and New England Natural Bakers Partner To Tackle Food Waste
3BL Media
APRIL 16, 2024
This employee-owned company, with a long history of social and environmental commitment dating back to 1977, has been partnering with Vanguard Renewables to tackle food waste from its manufacturing process since 2020. There, through a process called anaerobic digestion, this food waste gets a new lease on life.
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Climate Change vs. Circular Economy: Challenges of the Most Common Route for Recycling Gold from WEEE
Environmental News Bits
MARCH 24, 2025
Climate Change vs. Circular Economy: Challenges of the Most Common Route for Recycling Gold from WEEE. However, WEEE contains valuable metals … Continue reading Climate Change vs. Circular Economy: Challenges of the Most Common Route for Recycling Gold from WEEE Fritz, B., & Schmidt, M. Sustainability, 17(5).
Collecting Air Emissions Data for Compliance and Carbon Reduction
3BL Media
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Additionally, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a methodology used for GHG inventories , including industrial processes, transportation, and energy use. raw materials with associated emissions), and waste disposal methods. Do you have any questions?
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Campus Sustainability Month: A Focus on Food Waste Recycling at New England Colleges and Universities
3BL Media
OCTOBER 31, 2024
One of the significant areas of focus during this month is food waste management, specifically the innovative solutions rolling out across New England's higher education institutions, where food waste is being recycled through anaerobic digestion.
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5 opportunities of a circular economy
GreenBiz
MARCH 5, 2021
It is more urgent than ever to shift from linear, use-it-up-and-throw-it-away models to a circular economy: where waste and pollution are designed out, products and materials are kept in use for longer, and natural systems can regenerate. billion tons) and play a crucial role in averting the dangerous impacts of climate change.
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SLB Capturi Completes Construction of the World’s First Industrial-Scale Carbon Capture Plant at a Cement Facility
3BL Media
DECEMBER 3, 2024
This project exemplifies our commitment to innovation, collaboration, and the pursuit of solutions that address the pressing issue of climate change. The company is currently delivering seven carbon capture plants to bioenergy, waste to energy, and cement facilities. Find out more at capturi.slb.com.
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Cisco: Six Environmental Sustainability Trends for 2025 and Beyond
3BL Media
JANUARY 7, 2025
Climate change and resource scarcity require businesses, governments, and communities to act with intention and scale. Transitioning to a circular economy The transition from linear to circular business models is reshaping how industries operate, creating opportunities to reduce waste and maximize resources.
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Chefs could be the missing ingredient to circular food systems
GreenBiz
JUNE 22, 2020
Food loss and waste, the carbon-intensive production and distribution of food, hunger and food deserts: These are just a few inefficient and unequal outcomes of today’s global food system. Chef Kim Wejendorp knows a thing or two about food waste — or in his case, the inventive use of every ounce of an ingredient. Food Waste.
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Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe
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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How Consumer Behaviour Is Helping To Drive Circularity
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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A Sustainable Moo-vement: How the Dairy Industry Is Fighting Climate Change
3BL Media
MARCH 8, 2024
How the dairy industry is working to combat climate change Two dairy cooperatives leading the herd The 11,500 family farm members of Dairy Farmers of America ( DFA ) have made sustainability a top priority. Additionally, the digester provides renewable energy to Middlebury College, enabling the college to meet its net-zero goals.
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How industrial waste gases could replace fossil fuels in everyday consumer products
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
MARCH 13, 2025
Industrial waste gases, long seen as a major contributor to climate change, could soon be captured and repurposed into everyday household products such as shampoo, detergent, and even fuel.
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Antea Group Named to Engineering News-Record’s 2024 Top 200 Environmental Firms
3BL Media
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The rankings are further broken down by market segment including hazardous waste, water treatment and supply, wastewater treatment, air quality/clean energy, nuclear waste, environmental management, and environmental science. Firms are ranked based on the percentage of 2023 gross revenue reported from environmental services.
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Breweries are Working to Make Super Bowl Sunday Greener
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
BOSTON, February 9, 2024 /3BL/ - Breweries across the United States are stepping up to help fight climate change, and Super Bowl weekend is no different. Yet, all that beer creates a lot of waste that gets sent to landfills or dumped down the drain, but shake it off, because there’s a better solution.
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