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Believing in Better: Kohler CEO on Company’s First ESG Report

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When it comes to protecting the planet, in 2008 we were one of the first companies to establish a net-zero goal across our operations and in the years since have been actively tracking and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, and waste across operations while investing in renewable energy.

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Observers reflect on a disappointing COP26

Envirotec Magazine

The COP26 Youth Climate Protest in Glasgow on 5 November (image credit: PMGphotog / Shutterstock.com). While COP25 in Madrid had seen the launch of many such schemes by big polluters like Shell, Total and BP, with COP26 we could now see these schemes taking a central place in the draft agreement. Carbon capture.

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Veganuary Increases Appetite for Reducing Your Environmental Impact

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While the United Nations’ COP26 came and went in the blink of an eye, thoughts have been lingering about the lack of scrutiny on animal agriculture and its contribution to climate change. This annual event, launched in the UK by a team of environmentalists in 2014, challenges people to go vegan for a month.

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Mitigating Climate Change Due to Methane From Natural Gas

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are both signatories to the Global Methane Pledge (GMP), an initiative launched at COP26 in 2021, through which countries commit to taking voluntary action to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030, relative to a 2020 baseline. Voluntary efforts Canada and the U.S. Created in November 2020, OGMP 2.0 South of the Canada-U.S.

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Small businesses contribute a third of UK emissions, but are laggards in the net zero race

Envirotec Magazine

We launched our ground-breaking Net Zero Strategy this week and in the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow next month, we are pulling every lever we can to get every part of the UK’s business community on board with the vital need to reduce emissions and build back greener.”.

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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. During COP26, Lord Goldsmith admitted the UK had ‘real problems’ with burning wood for electricity. However, the plant has faced a string of delays and has yet to produce any electricity.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

While the pandemic initially provoked a swift and immediate short-term reaction, the vaccine’s rollout can now afford key legislators the chance to plan for the ‘next normal’, with 2021 assuming extra significance as the UK hosts the UN’s COP26 in Glasgow later this year. So where does this put us?