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How unchecked consumerism helps drive climate change

Corporate Knights

Recent research shows that across a product’s life cycle — from raw material extraction through manufacturing, distribution, use and disposal — the total embedded carbon emissions are 6.3 Interestingly, it is the product’s supply chain, or what we do not see related to making and distributing products, that is especially carbon intensive.

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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

.” The latest Food Waste Index Report (2024) , compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and co-authored by WRAP, found that the world wastes over a billion tonnes of food – one fifth of all food available to consumers at the retail, food service and household level annually.

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Boehringer Ingelheim Site in Japan Reduces Plastic Waste by 11% With Packaging Innovation

3BL Media

“One way that we are increasing circularity within our operations is through eco-design and green chemistry,” Anthony explains, adding “This means challenging the status quo and considering product sustainability throughout the product life cycle of the end-to-end value chain.” That was a key learning for the Japanese team.

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Time to Break the EV Bottleneck

Chris Hall

To do this, car manufacturers are beginning to invest directly in mines. The fundamental difference between an ICE vehicle and EV is that the former depends on finite and carbon-intensive fossil fuels, while the latter is powered by batteries. The recycling technology is there and already in use, Pamma adds.

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Fusion the Positive Choice for Climate Impact

Chris Hall

To mitigate the risks of investing in small EMDE projects and companies, Ivo Mulder, Head of the Climate Finance Unit (CFU) for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says investors are looking for opportunities with “some form of grant or concessional finance attached”. . Steady momentum .

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ESG Explainer: Walking the Walk on Plastic Packaging

Chris Hall

Packaging makes up around one third of the municipal waste generated annually in the European Union and the US, says WBCSD, with the cost of adverse environmental effects caused by plastic packaging valued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at around at US$40 billion. UNEP says 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated per year.

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On the Edge of the Abyss

Chris Hall

Metals have also never been extracted and processed from nodules at commercial scale, and companies like TMC are “relying on equipment that has been neither manufactured nor tested,” says Dobush.

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