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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Nature, climate in “deep trouble” as NSW dumps waste equal to three small cars a year, per person
Renew Economy
JUNE 26, 2025
NSW is making good progress expanding renewable energy but more needs to be done to address waste management, biodiversity loss and climate change. The post Nature, climate in “deep trouble” as NSW dumps waste equal to three small cars a year, per person appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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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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How unchecked consumerism helps drive climate change
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 26, 2022
As extreme weather events in Canada and around the world are linked to human-made climate change , there is one story that continues to be left out: the connection between climate change and the products we purchase. Our stuff, consumerism and climate change. Large-scale and small-scale change needed.
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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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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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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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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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How insurance companies can move the needle on climate change
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 10, 2022
Canada is already seeing the effects of climate change, and the insurance industry is paying close attention. Government and consumer responses to climate change also affect the insurance industry. What role should the insurance industry play in addressing climate change? billion to $5 billion per year.
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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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Green Building Ratings Crucial to Address Climate Change
Impakter
JUNE 16, 2025
Impakter Green Building Ratings Crucial to Address Climate Change The transition to green buildings requires a structured and measurable approach that integrates sustainability at every stage of the building’s lifecycle Sustainability is the key principle in designing buildings to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.
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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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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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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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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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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Microbes transform plastic waste into paracetamol, in new study
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 25, 2025
coli in the Wallace Lab (imagec credit: University of Edinburgh) Paracetamol production could be revolutionised by the discovery that a common bacterium can turn everyday plastic waste into the painkiller, a new study seems to show. A PhD student checks the growth of a culture of E.
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Essity on CDP’s Prestigious A List for Climate
3BL Media
APRIL 4, 2025
Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and its global effects are far-reaching. Essity has implemented various technologies to reduce emissions including using solar, geothermal, biogas and industrial waste heat energy sources, continuously exploring further options.
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Tapestry’s Jessie Wasser Included in Trellis’ 30 Under 30 List
3BL Media
JUNE 18, 2025
Trellis’ annual list recognizes young environmental leaders that have been responsible for helping their companies mitigate climate change. I also lead the company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, and programming relating to energy, water and waste for the company’s own operations.
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Why data and measurement are key to a circular economy transition
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
This means changing the way businesses see their role in society and, ultimately, transforming the economy. Our current economic model is based on extraction and waste. This take-make-waste economic model fundamentally cannot work long term.
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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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The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
emissions through the carbon mitigation associated with a forest planted in Rwanda or a direct air capture project in Canada, a plastic credit could go to paying waste collectors in Bangalore or expanding a plastic processing facility in Indonesia. . In other words, the whole point is to reduce or eliminate plastic waste, not offset it.
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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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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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Methane emissions are vastly underreported, but they could be slashed quickly
Corporate Knights
JUNE 11, 2025
When it comes to low-hanging fruit in the climate fight, methane is ripe for the picking. Methane may have a lower profile than carbon dioxide, but the notoriously underreported greenhouse gas is a key driver of climate change. This makes blunting its impact crucial for global climate action.
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Challenges in achieving more sustainable anaesthesia practices: A narrative review of waste reduction
Environmental News Bits
JUNE 30, 2025
Challenges in achieving more sustainable anaesthesia practices: A narrative review of waste reduction. link] [open access] Abstract Anaesthesia and operating room waste contribute to climate change and environmental pollution. BJA Open, 14.
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Upcycling Waste Polycarbonate into N,N’-Diphenylethylurea: A Hands-On Experiment for Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratories
Environmental News Bits
JULY 7, 2025
Upcycling Waste Polycarbonate into N,N’-Diphenylethylurea: A Hands-On Experiment for Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratories. Chowdhary, S., Roussel, P., Demertzis, K., Singh, S., & Kumar, V. Journal of Chemical Education.
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What Is Energy Transition? A Guide to the Future of Energy
3BL Media
APRIL 22, 2025
Key Drivers of the Energy Transition The energy transition is driven by several significant factors, including the critical need to combat climate change and the economic benefits of renewable energy sources. Combatting climate change Reducing carbon emissions is at the core of energy transition efforts.
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How AirCarbon Is Turning Greenhouse Gases Into Ocean-Friendly Plastic Alternatives
3BL Media
JUNE 6, 2025
This year’s theme, “Sustainable Fishing Means More,” highlights the growing demand for innovation to preserve marine ecosystems and fight climate change. With over 50 patents and more than a decade of R&D, AirCarbon® offers an elegant, market-driven solution to reduce plastic waste and climate impact.
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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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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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