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  • Shell could 'double green spend to $4bn' 

    Shell could 'double green spend to $4bn' 

    Anglo-Dutch energy major Shell is aiming to double its investment in clean technology to about $4bn a year, up from the $1bn to $2bn commitment the company has already made. In an interview in the...

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  • The Cement Industry, One of the World’s Largest CO2 Emitters, Pledges to Cut Greenhouse Gases

    The Cement Industry, One of the World’s Largest CO2 Emitters, Pledges to Cut Greenhouse Gases

    Cement is the second most-consumed resource in the world, with more than 4 billion tons of the material produced globally every year. As a result, the industry generates approximately 8 percent of...

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  • Toyota Kirloskar Motor bags CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2018 for "Environment Management"

    Toyota Kirloskar Motor bags CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2018 for "Environment Management"

    Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) was recently honoured with the prestigious award for ‘Significant Achievement in Environment Management’ awarded by CII-ITC Centre for Excellence for Sustainable...

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  • Major Funding Pledges Won't Close the Clean Energy Investment Gap

    Major Funding Pledges Won't Close the Clean Energy Investment Gap

    Several major financial institutions have made massive sustainable-investment pledges surrounding COP24, the new round of global climate talks that concluded earlier this month in Poland. The...

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  • Merry or misery? Shoppers urged to avoid Christmas gifts linked to slavery

    Merry or misery? Shoppers urged to avoid Christmas gifts linked to slavery

    Christmas holidaymakers have been warned by officials and campaigners not to inadvertently fund slavery with their gift lists as awareness grows over forced and child labour used in a list of...

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  • China issues rules to promote sustainable packaging in logistics amid Double 11 and Christmas shopping boom

    China issues rules to promote sustainable packaging in logistics amid Double 11 and Christmas shopping boom

    The Chinese government has issued standards to promote sustainable packaging materials in its billion-dollar logistics industry, as it looks to reduce waste in a country where millions of packages...

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  • Henkel to lead the sustainable fashion

    Henkel to lead the sustainable fashion

    Global chemical leader Henkel AG is putting sustainability as one of its top priorities, as China pursues more high-quality growth that balances economy, environment and society. Jeremy Hunter,...

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  • Food Waste in Large Kitchens: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production

    Food Waste in Large Kitchens: Ensuring Sustainable Consumption and Production

    Sustainable Development Goal number 12 is about consuming and producing within our planet’s natural limit, and for next generations to be able to fulfill their needs. As food is a basic need to be...

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  • Nations at climate talks back universal emissions rules

    Nations at climate talks back universal emissions rules

    Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate talks have agreed upon universal, transparent rules on how nations can cut greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming, putting the principles of the...

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  • FIU, Walmart Foundation to help farmers respond to changing climate

    FIU, Walmart Foundation to help farmers respond to changing climate

    FIU is working to help build stronger agricultural systems in the face of climate change. Florida is the nation’s largest producer of tomatoes, tropical fruits and winter vegetables, and climate...

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  • World's Largest Shipping Company is Ditching Fossil Fuels and Challenging Their Competitors to Do the Same

    World's Largest Shipping Company is Ditching Fossil Fuels and Challenging Their Competitors to Do the Same

    The world’s largest maritime shipping company has just announced that they are ditching fossil fuels in a bid for carbon neutrality – and they are challenging other companies to do the same....

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  • COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

    COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

    Twenty years ago science told policymakers that bioenergy – the burning of woody biomass – was a sustainable form of energy that was carbon neutral. The current United Nations carbon accounting...

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  • John Galt Wins Green Supply Chain Award 2018

    John Galt Wins Green Supply Chain Award 2018

    The Green Supply Chain Award recognizes companies making green or sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategy and are working to achieve measurable sustainability goals within their...

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  • Cargill unveils ‘Protect our Planet’ plan to improve supply chain sustainability

    Cargill unveils ‘Protect our Planet’ plan to improve supply chain sustainability

    Cargill has launched a new sustainability programme called ‘Protect our Planet’ that aims to eliminate deforestation from its cocoa supply chain and achieve 100% cocoa bean traceability.The plan...

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  • Ukraine cities gear up to run on local clean energy by 2050

    Ukraine cities gear up to run on local clean energy by 2050

    Fossil fuel-dependent Ukraine will strengthen its climate change action plan under the Paris Agreement to curb global warming, its government said at U.N. climate talks in Poland this week. Four...

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  • Dangote Group wins two sustainability awards 

    Dangote Group wins two sustainability awards 

    Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has received two awards at the 12th edition of the annual Sustainability Enterprise and Responsibility Awards (SERAS). The awards were in recognition of its 2017...

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  • Coca-Cola Invests In Supply Of 100% Recycled PET Plastic

    Coca-Cola Invests In Supply Of 100% Recycled PET Plastic

    Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is making a new strategic investment from Loop Industries to purchase a supply of 100% recycled PET (rPET) plastic to accelerate the increased use of recycled...

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  • Jeanologia Looks to Drive Change as Part of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition

    Jeanologia Looks to Drive Change as Part of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition

    Sustainable finishing technology company Jeanologia announced Wednesday that it has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). The Spanish company will begin using SAC’s suite of tools to...

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  • Renewable energy supplier Bulb named UK's fastest-growing company

    Renewable energy supplier Bulb named UK's fastest-growing company

    Bulb has grown since its launch in 2015 to become the UK's biggest renewable energy supplier after its founders recognised the energy industry was "broken". It’s been named the fastest-growing...

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  • World's biggest palm oil firm unveils new measures to end supply chain deforestation

    World's biggest palm oil firm unveils new measures to end supply chain deforestation

    Palm oil sourcing giant Wilmar International has unveiled plans to use satellite tracking and other digital technologies in a bid to eliminate deforestation risks from its supply chains. The...

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