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Green news- Target delays key emissions goalsLike many of its rivals in retail, the company is struggling with Scope 3 emissions and lagging on packaging goals. The post Target delays key emissions goals appeared first on Trellis.
- First-of-a-kind label focuses on compact productsThe NSF certification rewards products that reduce packaging, water use and emissions. The post First-of-a-kind label focuses on compact products appeared first on Trellis.
- 7 steps toward a future-friendly EPR strategySustainability in the era of extended producer responsibility is a data problem first, and a strategy problem second. If neither is addressed, it becomes a big budgetary problem. The post 7 steps toward a future-friendly EPR strategy appeared first on Trellis.
- What’s next for the ISO net-zero standardThe International Organization for Standardization must review feedback from more than 170 member organizations before requesting final approval. The post What’s next for the ISO net-zero standard appeared first on Trellis.
- How the right language can convince skeptics to support corporate climate actionClimate-skeptical Republicans will back action on emissions provided there is a business angle to the argument. The post How the right language can convince skeptics to support corporate climate action appeared first on Trellis.
- Target delays key emissions goals
Category Archives: Green Warnings
Scientists ‘Virtually Certain’ Climate Change Boosts European Heat Waves
LONDON July 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As Germany and Spain sweated and London sweltered through its hottest July day on record this week, scientists said it is “virtually certain” that climate change is increasing the likelihood of such heat waves in Europe.
In real-time data analysis released on Friday, a team of international climate scientists from universities, meteorological services and research organizations said the kind of heat waves hitting Europe this week – defined as three-day periods of excessive heat – are becoming much more frequent in the region. Continue reading
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Climate change skeptics protested with Green march in New York
Manhattan’s flood of green protesters had climate-change skeptics seeing red Sunday on 21st of September 2014.
“Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn’t even use a trash can,” tweeted a disgusted @chelsea_elisa, along with a photo of an overflowing trash can in Manhattan, after tens of thousands of marchers invaded the city on fleets of smog-producing buses.
Legions of demonstrators frustrated by international inaction on global warming descended on New York City on Sunday, marching through the heart of Manhattan with a message of alarm for world leaders set to gather this week at the United Nations for a summit meeting on climate change. Continue reading
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Green Solutions to Global Warming
There is much concern at the present time about the increasing addition of green house gases to the earth’s atmosphere. A prominent greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. This gas is produced when fossil fuels are burnt to produce energy for driving our automobiles or for producing electricity in power plants. It is believed that increasing addition of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will result in adverse changes to the earth’s climate such as global warming to the extent that many presently inhabited areas of our planet will become inhabitable. Continue reading
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