Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products

GreenBiz Group

September 8, 2020

Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products Cecilia Keating Tue, 09/08/2020 - 00:15 Unilever last week revealed plans to funnel close to $1.2 billion over the next 10 years into initiatives that will allow it to replace chemicals in its cleaning products made from fossil fuel feedstocks with greener alternatives — an investment it

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The open source movement takes on climate data

GreenBiz Group

September 3, 2020

The open source movement takes on climate data Heather Clancy Thu, 09/03/2020 - 00:15 As GreenBiz co-founder and Executive Editor Joel Makower wrote earlier this week, many companies are moving to disclose "climate risk," although far fewer are moving to actually minimize it. And as those tasked with preparing those reports can attest, the process of gathering the data for them is

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Carbon pricing works, and this proves it

GreenBiz Group

September 1, 2020

Carbon pricing works, and this proves it Paul Burke Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:45 Putting a price on carbon should reduce emissions, because it makes dirty production processes more expensive than clean ones, right? That’s the economic theory. Stated baldly, it’s obvious; however, there is perhaps a tiny chance that what happens in practice might be something else. In a newly

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Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date

GreenBiz Group

August 28, 2020

Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date Katie Fehrenbacher Fri, 08/28/2020 - 00:00 German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe. The deal shows how companies are increasingly paying attention to ways to decarbonize

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Reducing gas usage with renewable energy heating

Sustainability Matters

August 27, 2020

With gas still a key part of many industrial heating applications, researchers are looking renewable alternatives. In a project supported by ARENA and the new Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030 CRC), researchers from the University of South Australia’s Future Industry Institute (FII) are currently prototyping a commercial-scale system that

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz Group

August 26, 2020

Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics Elsa Wenzel Wed, 08/26/2020 - 02:01 In 10 short years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) arguably has done more than any other group to define and advance the circular economy. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy" (PDF),  sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as

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A new app tracks your carbon footprint in real-time. It’s funded by BP.

Grist News

August 26, 2020

Is it time to forget about your carbon footprint?

This is why investors want financial regulators to tackle climate risk

GreenBiz Group

August 24, 2020

This is why investors want financial regulators to tackle climate risk Ravi Varghese Mon, 08/24/2020 - 01:15 To understand economic crises of the recent past, present and future, there may be no finer teacher than Michael Lewis. Many readers will be familiar with Lewis’s book "The Big Short," which documented how excesses in global credit markets spawned a worldwide

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FutureFeed launches to take methane-busting seaweed to market

Sustainability Matters

August 23, 2020

CSIRO has announced the formation of a new company — FutureFeed — to commercialise a livestock feed additive made from the seaweed Asparagopsis, which has been shown to reduce methane emissions in beef and dairy cattle by more than 80%. AGP Sustainable Real Assets-Sparklabs Cultiv8 Joint Venture, GrainCorp, Harvest Road, Woolworths and CSIRO have committed to investing in the company, with

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Does your state want to cut carbon emissions? These old laws could be standing in the way.

Grist News

August 10, 2020

Outdated policies that favor fossil fuels could thwart states' climate goals.