Environment
Releases published in the last 30 days.
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- Unpacking What’s Possible: Advancing ELC’s Packaging Sustainability Solutions This Earth Day and Beyond
- 4/16/2024 9:54:38 AM
- At ELC, we are committed to redefining luxury through sustainability practices, including with our packaging. We strive to use our spirit of creativity and innovation to design product packaging that’s beautiful, luxurious, and aligned with our sustainability goals.
- EPA Finalizes Tougher Air Quality Standards to Protect Against Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter
- 4/16/2024 8:11:43 AM
- Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had finalized a significantly stronger air quality standard that will better protect families, workers and communities from the dangerous and costly health effects of fine particle pollution, also known as soot.
- NOAA confirms 4th global coral bleaching event
- 4/15/2024 11:38:50 AM
- The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, according to NOAA scientists. This is the fourth global event on record and the second in the last 10 years. Bleaching-level heat stress, as remotely monitored and predicted by NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch (CRW), has been — and continues to be — extensive across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basins.
- Mahindra Susten forays into ‘Hybrid’ Renewable Energy (RE) segment with a ‘solar + wind’ project
- 4/15/2024 11:30:48 AM
- • The project will include ˜101 MW wind capacity and ˜52 MW solar capacity. • Commissioning and readiness of the project expected within next 2 years • M&M’s share of RE will go up from 34% in FY23 to over 60% in FY26 • Project will help abate ˜420000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
- EPA Announces Final Rule to Reduce Exposure to Ethylene Oxide in Puerto Rico and Across the Nation
- 4/15/2024 11:22:56 AM
- Several years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted a community meeting for residents of Salinas, Puerto Rico to share information about health risks from the chemical ethylene oxide (EtO), which was being emitted from a local contract sterilization facility.
- Resources to Identify Environmental Exposure Issues before Signing a Property Lease
- 4/15/2024 11:14:23 AM
- People choose to lease or rent instead of purchasing a residential, industrial, or commercial property for many reasons. For some, leasing provides the flexibility to move into a property when the market is uncertain, when favorable financing options are not available, or for one of numerous other explanations.
- Automotive: Italian Enterprise Ministry approves development contract with the Piaggio Proup for its Pontedera factory
- 4/15/2024 8:58:42 AM
- Italy’s Ministry for Enterprise and Made in Italy has approved a development contract submitted by the Piaggio Group (PIA.MI) setting out an investment plan for approximately 112 million euro to expand production at the Piaggio factory in Pontedera, in the province of Pisa.
- Penultimate UN talks on global plastic pollution treaty will make or break the treaty: WWF
- 4/15/2024 8:36:42 AM
- • WWF analysis shows a majority of states support ambitious and legally-binding global rules, even as a small minority try to delay and upend the treaty’s proceedings.
- BCTI Unveils PwC-Authored Case Study Spotlighting Unilever’s Social Impact Strategy
- 4/15/2024 8:29:35 AM
- The Business Commission to Tackle Inequality (BCTI) has unveiled its latest case study report, “How Unilever builds and delivers its social performance strategy”, offering insights into effective strategies for addressing inequality within the private sector.
- Linde Recognized by S&P Global in The Sustainability Yearbook 2024
- 4/11/2024 8:01:42 AM
- Linde (Nasdaq: LIN) announced today that it has been included in S&P Global’s Sustainability Yearbook 2024. The Sustainability Yearbook recognizes the world’s leading companies for sustainable business practices.
- Henkel launches new initiative to collaborate with suppliers on climate action
- 4/11/2024 7:57:22 AM
- • New supplier engagement program to record and reduce Scope 3 emissions from suppliers worldwide • Support for partners through transparent data collection, trainings and targeted actions for decarbonization • Important step for Henkel’s ambition of a net-zero pathway In order to bring the evaluation of its CO2 emissions in the upstream supply chain to the next …
- Tesco has become one of five leading global grocery retailers to establish pioneering collaborative venture fund, W23 Global, to accelerate innovation across retail
- 4/11/2024 7:50:16 AM
- W23 Global brings together five global grocery leaders, including Tesco (UK, ROI, Central Europe), Ahold Delhaize (US, Europe, Indonesia), Woolworths Group (Australia, New Zealand), Empire Company Limited/Sobeys Inc.
- The Hugo Boss Foundation Welcomes Its First Long-Term Partner Coral Gardeners
- 4/10/2024 11:14:15 AM
- The HUGO BOSS Foundation joins forces with Coral Gardeners, a non-profit organization that focuses on coral restoration and ocean preservation in French Polynesia, Fiji, and soon also in Thailand.
- IKEA furniture destroys some of Europe’s last remaining ancient forests
- 4/10/2024 11:05:15 AM
- Furniture manufacturers producing for IKEA are sourcing wood from some of Europe’s last remaining old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians, including in Natura 2000 protected areas, new report finds.
- Open Letter to the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action
- 4/10/2024 9:38:44 AM
- The climate crisis is an existential crisis for the world. Already, communities globally are buckling under the pressure of climate impacts that affect the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable people and ecosystems.
- Insights from the first module of the Leadership Program 2024
- 4/10/2024 9:14:17 AM
- Coming to the WBCSD Leadership Program as a sustainability professional, I had my own preconceptions about how to characterize a leader in this complex field of sustainability.
- Henkel and Samsung introduce custom wash cycles that reduce energy consumption by 60 percent
- 4/10/2024 9:06:01 AM
- Henkel and Samsung have teamed up to offer a laundry experience that combines superior wash performance with energy efficiency for the South Korean market.
- Digital Realty and Schneider Electric Partner to Undertake Data Center Circular Economy Initiative
- 4/9/2024 11:08:15 AM
- • New initiative will support Digital Realty’s circular economy and sustainability commitments, increasing resilience and accelerating decarbonization • Builds on 20 years of expert data center partnership and aligns with both organizations’ ESG values, reducing e-waste and upstream/ downstream Scope 3 emissions • New battery rejuvenation pilot being undertaken in …
- Has remote work changed how people travel in the U.S?
- 4/9/2024 9:27:21 AM
- The prevalence of remote work since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed urban transportation patterns in the U.S., according to new study led by MIT researchers.
- Infection Control Resources to Safeguard Patients from Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and Other Pathogens
- 4/8/2024 10:51:30 AM
- The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) describes enterococci as part of the normal flora in the intestinal tract and also a common cause of nosocomial infections.