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April Appoints KPMG to Audit Sustainable Forest Management | The Jakarta Globe - 0 views

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    Forest product company Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) hired KPMG to audit the company's performance on its Sustainable Forest Management Policy. The policy calls for APRIL to conserve over 450,000 hectares of forests and to stop producing pulp from areas where conservation assessments have not been completed.
Adriana Trujillo

APRIL signs MoU with Netherlands-based IDH to set industry standards for conserving car... - 0 views

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    APRIL Group said today it has joined the effort to set industry standards for conserving carbon-rich forests. The pulp and paper manufacturer added that it will adopt those standards in future forestry planning.
Adriana Trujillo

Walmart grows the chemical footprint movement | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Walmart announced in April that it has removed 95 percent of the 10 highest priority chemicals targeted by its pioneering Sustainable Chemistry Policy. This is striking progress, as Walmart announced its goal to eliminate these chemicals just two years ago.
Adriana Trujillo

Keurig Green Mountain Joins The Recycling Partnership to Help Improve U.S. Recycling Sy... - 0 views

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    FALLS CHURCH, VA and WATERBURY, Vt., [April 18, 2016] - The Recycling Partnership is delighted to announce that Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. (Keurig), a personal beverage system company that has revolutionized the way consumers create and enjoy beverages, is joining its dedicated and diverse circle of members. Both organizations share a vision to enact system-wide solutions to the recycling challenges of today, working across materials and the supply chain for a bright, sustainable recovery future.
Adriana Trujillo

Nations seek rapid ratification of Paris climate deal, four-year lock | Reuters - 1 views

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    The United States, China, and around 130 other nations are expected to sign the Paris Agreement on April 22 at the UN headquarters in New York City.
Del Birmingham

Judge Sides With Kids Suing The Government Over Climate Inaction: 'These Kids Can't Wai... - 0 views

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    On Friday, a group of children suing the government for inaction on climate change scored a major victory, as a judge ruled that the Washington State Department of Ecology must deliver an emissions reduction rule by the end of this year. That decision follows another major win in mid-April, when an Oregon judge ruled that a similar lawsuit could go forward despite opposition from the fossil fuel industry.
Adriana Trujillo

San Francisco Just Issued The Country's Broadest Ban On Styrofoam - 0 views

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    San Francisco just took a major step to save the environment. The city's Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance to ban the sale of polystyrene - more commonly known by its brand-name "styrofoam" - on Tuesday. It's the broadest ban on the product in the country, according to Mother Jones. "The science is clear," London Breed, Board of Supervisors president, said in a statement in April. "This stuff is an environmental and public health pollutant, and we have to reduce its use." Starting January 1, 2017, vendors will no longer be able to sell polystyrene products, from food packaging and coffee cups to packing peanuts and pool toys, according to Science Alert. And starting July 1, styrofoam fish and meat trays in supermarkets will also be banned.
Adriana Trujillo

New tech uses microbes to cut water waste from beer | Guardian Sustainable Business | t... - 0 views

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    Boston-based startup Cambrian Innovation has come up with water-cleaning technology that uses microbes to turn dirty water into clean energy. Cambrian has federal and private equity funding, including $365,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency. "It's where we will go in the future, where waste is a resource and we don't just want to get rid of it, we want to get energy out of it," said April Richards of the EPA's small-business innovation-research program
Adriana Trujillo

Hilton Bans Shark Fin Dishes · Environmental Management & Energy News · Envir... - 0 views

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    Hilton Worldwide will cease serving shark fin and stop accepting new orders for shark fin dishes by April 1, 2014. The ban covers all restaurants and facilities operated by its 96 owned and managed properties across Asia Pacific.
Adriana Trujillo

Over 75% of Unilever's factories achieve zero non-hazardous waste to landfill | Media c... - 0 views

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    London/Rotterdam, 9 April 2014. Unilever announced today that all its factories across Europe have joined those in North America in achieving zero non-hazardous waste to landfill. With similar achievements in countries from Argentina to Indonesia, it means more than three-quarters of the company's global factory network no longer sends such waste to landfill, up from 20% just three years ago.
Del Birmingham

IKEA to Nearly Double Current Size of Maryland's Largest Rooftop Array, on Distribution... - 0 views

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    IKEA plans to nearly double the solar array completed in April atop its Perryville, Maryland distribution center, the state's largest such solar energy system. 
Del Birmingham

'We Can't Recycle Our Way Out of This Problem': Ben & Jerry's Bans Single-Use Plastics ... - 0 views

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    By April of this year, its 600-plus Scoop Shops around the world will only offer wooden spoons, rather than plastic ones. Paper straws will also only be available upon request.
Del Birmingham

In less than 90 days, South Africa's Cape Town to become first city with no water - 1 views

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    South Africa's drought-stricken Cape Town told residents on Wednesday they would need to cut their daily water consumption by almost half from next month as authorities scramble to prevent the city running out of water as soon as in April.
Del Birmingham

Exclusive New Video From Greenpeace Reveals Massive Deforestation in Indonesia - 1 views

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    A palm oil supplier to Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever is destroying rainforests in Papua, Indonesia, a new investigation by Greenpeace International has revealed. Satellite analysis suggests that around 4,000 hectare of rainforest were cleared in PT Megakarya Jaya Raya concession between May 2015 and April 2017-an area almost half the size of Paris.
Adriana Trujillo

Fashion Transparency Index - April 2016 | Sustainable Brands - 1 views

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    Following the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse that killed 1,134 people in 2013, Fashion Revolution and Ethical Consumer were compelled to demand more transparency from the fashion industry. To help the public learn where their clothes came from and how they were made, they began publishing the Fashion Transparency Index assessing top selling global brands. Levi's, Inditex, H&M, and adidas were among the top scorers in 2016.
Del Birmingham

CLIMATE: Global warming is 'bogus,' Palin tells Hill gathering -- Friday, April 15, 201... - 0 views

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    Former Alaska Republican Gov. Sarah Palin yesterday said climate change is a myth that scientists and policymakers are peddling to advance a political agenda.
Adriana Trujillo

April's Sustainable Forest Management Policy Met With Criticism, Caution · En... - 0 views

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    Threatened with expulsion from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Indonesian pulp and paper company Asia Pacific Resources International re-committed to an earlier pledge to stop clearing forests for new plantations by the end of 2014. The company also pledged to double its forest restoration program to 40,000 hectares and use 100% plantation fiber by the end of 2019.
Adriana Trujillo

Carbon dioxide in atmosphere at record level - 0 views

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    For the first time in human history and likely for the first time in at least 800,000 years, the average level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere topped 400 parts per million for an entire month.
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