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Sweden pledges to cut all greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 | The Independent - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 Feb 17
     
    Sweden has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. The country plans to achieve this goal by cutting 85% of its GHG emissions from 1990 levels, and offsetting the remaining emissions.
Del Birmingham

Sweden Runs Out Of Garbage: Only 1% Ends Up In Landfills | Collective-Evolution - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 10 Nov 15
     
    Something incredible has been taking place in Sweden over the past several years, somewhat of a "recycling revolution," if you will. Currently less than one percent of the garbage produced in Swedish homes ends up in the landfill today, with the other ninety-nine percent being recycled or composted.
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Carlsberg Launches Its First Carbon-Neutral Brewery In Sweden | CleanTechnica - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 01 Dec 17
     
    The Carlsberg Group's brewery in Falkenberg, Sweden, is now using entirely renewable energy. The move comes after Carlsberg announced its goal to reach carbon-neutral status as part of its Together Towards Zero initiative earlier this year.
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Sweden on Target to Become First Fossil Fuel-Free Nation on Earth - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Oct 15
     
    Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven recently declared at the U.N. General Assembly that his nation of 10 million people would become "one of the first fossil-free welfare states in the world."
Del Birmingham

The Arctic Is Burning: Wildfires Rage from Sweden to Alaska - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 18 Jul 18
     
    There are currently 11 wildfires blazing in the Arctic circle, The Guardian reported Wednesday. While fires are also raging in Russia, Norway and Finland, Sweden has seen the most extensive Arctic fires, which have forced four communities to evacuate,
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Volvo Production Plant Achieves Carbon Neutrality | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 12 Feb 14
     
    Volvo Construction Equipment's Braås site in southern Sweden has become its first carbon-neutral facility and is claimed to be the first construction equipment production plant in the world run entirely on renewables.
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H&M Grabs More Control of Factories Amid Bangladesh Unrest (1) - Businessweek - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Nov 13
     
    H&M has negotiated agreements this year that make the Sweden-based fast-fashion retailer the sole customer of two factories in Bangladesh and a third in Cambodia, a move designed to give the retailer more control over working conditions and wages for the people who make its clothes. "We see these a little like test centers where we can try out different things that we can then push out on a larger scale in the entire supply chain," said social sustainability manager Anna Gedda
Del Birmingham

A Successful Push to Restore Europe's Long-Abused Rivers by Fred Pearce: Yale Environme... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 12 Dec 13
     
    From the industrial cities of Britain to the forests of Sweden, from the plains of Spain to the shores of the Black Sea, Europe is restoring its rivers to their natural glory. The most densely populated continent on earth is finding space for nature to return along its river banks. 
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FSC Announces the Bonn Initiative at COP23 - Press Releases on CSRwire.com - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 30 Nov 17
     
    FSC, IKEA of Sweden and SIG support the development of scientifically rigorous methodologies to quantify the climate benefits of FSC certification
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Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A Debate Over Trash by Nate Seltenrich: Yale ... - 0 views

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  • recycling most materials from municipal solid waste saves on average three to five times more energy than does burning them for electricity.
  • As it turns out, countries with the highest rates of garbage incineration — Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, for example, all incinerate at least 50 percent of their waste — also tend to have high rates of recycling and composting of organic materials and food waste. But zero-wasters argue that were it not for large-scale incineration, these environmentally Zero-waste advocates say a major problem is the long-term contracts that waste-to-energy plants are locked into.conscious countries would have even higher rates of recycling. Germany, for example, incinerates 37 percent of its waste and recycles 45 percent — a considerably better recycling rate than the 30-plus percent of Scandinavian countries.
  • (In the United States, more than half of all waste is dumped in landfills, and about 12 percent burned, of which only a portion is used to produce energy.)
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  • In Flanders, Belgium, an effort to keep a lid on incinerator contracts has led nearer to zero waste, said Joan Marc Simon, executive director of Zero Waste Europe and European regional coordinator for GAIA. Since the early 1990s, when recycling rates were relatively low, the local waste authority in Flanders has decided not to increase incineration beyond roughly 25 percent, Simon said. As a result, combined recycling and composting rates now exceed 75 percent, GAIA says. "They stabilized and even reduced waste generation when they capped incineration," Simon said.
  • Without incineration, he believes, most European countries could improve current recycling rates of 20 or 30 percent to 80 percent within six months. Hogg agreed, saying that rates of 70 percent should be “easy” to attain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates recycling and composting together, puts the current U.S. rate at 35 percent, compared to a combined European Union figure of 40 percent.
  • Del Birmingham on 29 Aug 13
     
    Increasingly common in Europe, municipal "waste-to-energy" incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste.
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