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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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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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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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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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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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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Grist News
August 26, 2020
Is it time to forget about your carbon footprint?
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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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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Grist News
August 10, 2020
Outdated policies that favor fossil fuels could thwart states' climate goals.