Month: September 2024

EPA announces historic funding in a significant step to reduce emissions and bolster state economies

Stuart Mitchell

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  announced the awards of the first-of-its-kind Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG). Totaling $4.3 billion, this competitive implementation funding was included in the Inflation Reduction Act and will support states’ and municipalities’ greenhouse gas reduction strategies.   “Today’s announcement is a significant win for state and local efforts to reduce emissions while advancing their unique energy, economic, and climate priorities,” said Jeremy Tarr, U.S. State Policy Director at CATF. “These awards will further innovative technologies to reduce emissions in multiple sectors, including transportation, industry, and methane,…

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Buying one pair of second-hand jeans and a t-shirt could save equivalent of 20,000 bottles of water – Oxfam

Stuart Mitchell

Buying just one pair of jeans and a t-shirt second-hand could help save the equivalent of 20,000 standard bottles of water, new Oxfam analysis reveals. The findings come as Oxfam launches its sixth Second Hand September campaign to encourage people to shop preloved and donate their unwanted clothes to help reduce the need for new clothes. The garment industry has an enormous water footprint that is straining the planet’s limited water resources. The total water footprint of clothing used in the UK annually is eight billion cubic metres, enough to…

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CARBIOS and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles cooperate to develop the French polyester textile recycling industry

Stuart Mitchell

CARBIOS, a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, a French company specializing in the recovery of end-of-life textiles, today announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a contract for the supply of polyester textiles to the world’s first PET biorecycling plant currently under construction in Longlaville, France. The polyester textiles supplied will come from used or end-of-life textiles prepared in France by Nouvelles Fibres Textiles for recycling using CARBIOS’ enzymatic depolymerization…

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Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories

Stuart Mitchell

Disability:IN, the global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business, today announced the winners of its 2024 Inclusion Awards. The annual accolade recognizes outstanding disability inclusion efforts by visionary brands and individuals from among Disability:IN’s more than 500 corporate partners. “Each year we are fortunate to see exemplary disability inclusion efforts from so many worthy companies and individuals. The volume reaffirms that this work continues to become a business imperative for companies around the globe,” said Jill Houghton, president and CEO of Disability:IN. “Our 2024 Inclusion Awards recipients represent…

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New Ceres analysis reveals strong corporate climate action resulting from shareholder proposals

Stuart Mitchell

A new report released recently shows a high volume of corporate climate commitments resulting from shareholder proposals that were filed and withdrawn or received a majority vote in the 2021 U.S. Proxy Season and that most of these commitments have been implemented by the companies. The results highlight a substantial level of follow-through by companies on their promises to address climate-related financial risks and opportunities and responsiveness by companies to the climate-related requests of their shareholders.  From Commitment to Implementation: An Analysis of Corporate Climate Actions from the 2021 Proxy…

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