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Green news- How REI reached a key zero-waste milestone before Target and WalmartThe outdoor retailer is keeping 90 percent of the waste generated at stores and distribution centers out of landfills and incinerators. The post How REI reached a key zero-waste milestone before Target and Walmart appeared first on Trellis.
- Why Target is tagging 35 million pieces of clothing with digital IDsQR codes on Universal Thread apparel connect to resale and product details for consumers — and, eventually, sorters and recyclers. The post Why Target is tagging 35 million pieces of clothing with digital IDs appeared first on Trellis.
- Google uses carbon credit purchase to tackle short-lived super-pollutants The tech giant will buy credits from projects that fund work in Indonesia and Brazil to lessen emissions of methane and hydrofluorocarbons. The post Google uses carbon credit purchase to tackle short-lived super-pollutants appeared first on Trellis.
- Americans want CEOs to speak up, defend climate actionDespite a noisy political climate, people expect business leaders to speak out on certain social issues. The post Americans want CEOs to speak up, defend climate action appeared first on Trellis.
- How Colgate-Palmolive’s CSO links sustainability to value creationAnn Tracy, in her sixth year on the job, now reports into the growth and strategy organization of the consumer products giant. The post How Colgate-Palmolive’s CSO links sustainability to value creation appeared first on Trellis.
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Tag Archives: carbon
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
CO2 emissions from new cars fell by over 3% in 2011
The European Commission adopted a decision confirming provisional findings that average CO2 emissions from new cars in the EU dropped by 3.3% last year. This decision is based on emissions data gathered by the European Environment Agency and verified by car manufacturers.
The average CO2 emissions for the 12.8 million new cars registered in the EU in 2011 was 135.7 grams per kilometre. This is a drop of 4.6g CO2/km compared to 2010 and confirms that car manufacturers are on track to reach the 2015 target of 130g CO2/km. Continue reading
EU to keep carbon tax on airlines, but for how long?
The European Union will maintain its carbon tax imposed on airlines operating in its airspace, despite retaliatory trade measures by China.
As long as an international policy on carbon emissions by airlines is not found, the “EU will stick to its own ETS system”. The carbon tax imposed on airlines by the European Union came into effect on January 1, but carriers will begin receiving bills only in 2013 after this year’s carbon emissions have been assessed. Continue reading
EU, US lock horns on Europe airline emissions charges
(BRUSSELS) – Europe and the United States headed for confrontation Wednesday after the EU won key legal backing for its proposal to slap carbon emissions charges on all airlines in its airspace from January 1.
The European Union’s top court threw out a bid by US and Canadian airlines to block the introduction of the scheme in a ruling that was warmly welcomed by the bloc but triggered an angry response from Washington. Continue reading
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