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Moving ‘green’ Belt and Road from words to action

Eco-Business

The Guidelines for Ecological and Environmental Protection in Foreign Investment and Cooperation Projects went further than the overseas green policies of 2013 and 2021. They were expected to support China’s 2021 pledge to promote green-energy development in developing countries. Education 5. Gender equality 6.

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Coastal communities bear the brunt of Thailand’s LNG boom

Eco-Business

But this industrial concentration has come at a cost: oil spills , air pollution , water contamination and waste have severely affected local communities. In 2021, China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau Engineering Co and China Petroleum Engineering won a bid to replace Thailand’s first LNG plant in Rayong with a new one. Education 5.

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Row over health of Indian Ocean tuna

Eco-Business

The report detailing the new findings says the 2024 model represents a “marked improvement” over the previous model from 2021. The new model suggests the tuna was “in an overfished state from 2007 to 2019” but that the mass of adult fish (fisheries scientists look at “spawning stock biomass”) increased “considerably” after 2021.

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Essity Recognized by CDP for Its Supplier Engagement in Fight Against Climate Change

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: STOCKHOLM, March 7, 2022, /3BL Media/ - The hygiene and health company Essity has been recognized as Supplier Engagement Leader by the global non-profit environmental organization CDP. Net sales in 2021 amounted to approximately SEK 122bn (EUR 12bn). Essity is aiming to reduce its Scope 3 emissions by 18% by 2030.

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

As a group, over the course of the past decade (2012 to 2021) these 20 companies slashed their net GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 43%, from 862 million tonnes to 489 million tonnes. During this period, it bet the farm on renewables (wind and solar) and grid modernization, building some 70 renewable power plants in 2021 alone.

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Water scarcity: A growing risk for companies and investors

GreenBiz

Thu, 07/08/2021 - 02:11. This is largely because of its dependence on agriculture, which consumes the most water by far, slurping up roughly 70 percent globally and wasting about 60 percent of that, largely through inefficient applications. Both Barclays and CDP cite L’Oréal as a leader in reducing water waste.

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Accelerating Climate Action: Project Gigaton™ Marks Key Milestone

3BL Media

Over the years, we have expanded Project Gigaton™ to focus action on six arenas in product supply chains that are key for emissions reduction and also tend to align with suppliers’ business priorities: energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation and product design. Celsius degree pathway as reported to CDP.