Environment
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lululemon invests in renewable materials
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US athletic apparel company lululemon Athletica Inc. has been very busy these past two months partnering all the way up in the company’s raw material supply chain. The company released its first Impact Agenda in October last year with a…
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UN IPCC releases latest climate change report
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I’ve seen so many references on social media about this new report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which released the first instalment of its 6th Assessment Report (AR6). The report will be completed in 2022….
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Amyris launches its first ESG report
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I’ve been seeing so many open positions that are linked to company Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting on my LinkedIn timeline. ESG investing remains a very hot topic, particularly in light of the clear evidence that companies with higher…
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The US Plastics Pact launched
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Led by the Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the collaborative U.S. Plastics Pact was launched as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network. The U.S. Plastics Pact is an ambitious initiative to unify diverse public-private…
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Australian company sells compostable cling wrap online
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I first saw this article from an Australian website, Broadstreet.com, about a small company called Great Wrap which is selling online a compostable cling wrap that is reportedly certified by DIN Certco in Germany. The cling wraps sell for AUS$8…
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Not all carbon emissions are equal?
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I’ve been following the Biogenic CO2 Coalition for the past year which was formed by several agricultural trade groups to persuade the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to refrain from regulating CO2 emissions from the use of annual crops the…
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VIDEO: Green Chlor-Alkali Plant
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I am not that familiar with the chlor-alkali industry aside from the information that it uses electrochemical processing which is getting to be popular as well in its potential to produce renewable carbon-based chemicals (example is Avantium’s Volta technology). Electrochemical…