Month: June 2021

The BEYONDPLASTIC AWARD 2021 opens its gates

Stuart Mitchell

The global online platform for eco-designed product & packaging solutions BEYONDPLASTIC announces the hosting of the BEYOND PLASTIC AWARD 2021. The Award’s motto is: „Let us design and create eco-responsible products and packages. Let us reduce single-use plastic and start a material renaissance!“ The Award will honor the innovation and creativity in sustainable product & packaging design in four categories: 1. Most practical impact to reduce the use of plastics, 2. Most innovative approach, 3. Most beautiful solution and 4. Best Initiative in Education / Journalism / Campaigning. For each…

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Upwing Energy Achieves Carbon Neutral Certification

Stuart Mitchell

Upwing Energy, an artificial lift technology company serving the oil and gas industry, announced today that it has been independently certified as a carbon neutral company under the PAS 2060 Carbon Neutrality standard. The company’s certification will benefit exploration and production companies by adding a carbon neutral company to their supply chain, in addition to reducing their own carbon footprint with Upwing’s advanced subsurface compressor technology. Upwing Energy’s carbon neutral certification was awarded by SCS Global Services, an internationally recognized third-party certification body, which performed a full assessment of the…

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UK banks and investors responsible for nearly double the UK’s annual carbon emissions, report finds

Stuart Mitchell

A new report, published on 25 May 2021 by Greenpeace UK and WWF, finds that UK banks and asset managers were responsible for financing 805 million tonnes of CO2 in 2019, which would make The City of London the 9th biggest emitter of CO2 in the world if it were a country – ranked higher than Germany. The new research points towards finance as one of the UK’s biggest contributors to climate change and supports calls for regulation to be introduced across the sector to bring it into line with…

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Volvo Cars to be fully electric by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Volvo Cars is committed to becoming a leader in the fast-growing premium electric car market and plans to become a fully electric car company by 2030. By then, the company intends to only sell fully electric cars and phase out any car in its global portfolio with an internal combustion engine, including hybrids. The company’s transition towards becoming a fully electric car maker is part of its ambitious climate plan, which seeks to consistently reduce the life cycle carbon footprint per car through concrete action. Its decision also builds on…

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Kingfisher signs new £550m revolving credit facility linked to Responsible Business targets

Stuart Mitchell

Kingfisher plc, the international home improvement retailer whose businesses include B&Q and Screwfix, announces today that it has entered into a £550m three-year revolving credit facility agreement with a group of its relationship banks. The facility is linked to ambitious sustainability and community-based targets. Kingfisher has a long heritage as a responsible business. We were a founding member of the Forest Stewardship Council when it was established nearly 30 years ago to help the responsible sourcing of wood. We were also the first retailer to label and cut VOCs (volatile…

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