Environment
Releases published in the last 30 days. 
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- Secondhand Electronic-Cigarette Aerosols and Indoor Air Quality
- 4/19/2024 8:08:18 AM
- The National Center for Health Statistics reports that in 2021, 4.5% of adults aged 18 and over were electronic cigarette users. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration recently released data from the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) that showed 2.1 million youth also use e-cigarettes.
- Business and Policy: now is the time to reach across the divide
- 4/18/2024 8:48:26 AM
- Why is policy engagement essential for businesses to achieve their sustainability goals? How should ambitious businesses work most effectively with governments? How can public-private cooperation more rapidly unlock investment and scale markets? Here are some of my reflections from my first six months at WBCSD on why policy engagement is becoming essential for ambitious …
- Expedia Group Announces Two New Sustainable Travel Programs for Destinations
- 4/18/2024 3:44:27 AM
- Expedia Group announced the launch of two new programs — Destination Climate Champions and the Destination Giveback Initiative — both designed to support destination marketing and management organizations (DMOs) in becoming better environmental stewards and helping ensure travel is truly a force for good in their local communities.
- Apple ramps up investment in clean energy and water around the world
- 4/17/2024 11:40:22 AM
- Apple today announced new progress to expand clean energy around the world and advance momentum toward Apple 2030, the company’s bold goal to be carbon neutral across its entire value chain by the end of this decade.
- Multilateral development banks must supercharge nature-positive finance
- 4/17/2024 7:31:04 AM
- In advance of this year’s World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, WWF’s Global Finance Practice Lead, Aaron Vermeulen, calls on governments and central banks gathering in Washington D.C.
- 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.