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Loop, Loblaw partner to test reusable packaging
Loop, Loblaw partner to test reusable packaging
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required) • Canada Newswire • Toronto Star
On Monday, Loop, a packaging-reuse program owned by N.J.-based recycling company TerraCycle, launched a pilot project with Loblaw in Ontario to test a bottle-deposit-style system for returning and reusing packaging of everyday items – including ketchup, pasta sauce, lemonade, and cookies.
Loblaw praised for eliminating receipts with phenol
Loblaw is winning praise from a coalition of environmental, health and labour groups for its commitment to stop using receipt paper that contains a potentially dangerous chemical announcing it will transition to phenol-free receipt paper by the end of 2021.
Danone Canada signs the Canada Plastics Pact
Danone Canada is now a signatory to the Canada Plastics Pact. Through this commitment, and as a founding member of the Circular Plastics Taskforce (CPT), Danone is reinforcing its resolve to make 100% of its packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025.
McDonald’s bans use of PFAS in food packaging
• Safer Chemicals • McDonald’s News Release
Fast-food giant McDonald’s announced a new global sustainable packaging commitment, banning the class of toxic chemicals per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from packaging materials, chemicals used to impart stain, grease, and water resistance to food packaging, carpeting, upholstery, and apparel.
From climate crisis to real prosperity: Mark Carney
In one year’s time, countries, companies and communities will try to launch the sustainable revolution, to put the market into service of humanity and once again have society’s values drive value.
Global call for climate leadership at city level
A program called “1000 Cities Adapt Now,” was launched in January at the global Climate Adaptation Summit, co-convened by the government of Canada and the United Nations Environment Programme, among others that calls for municipal leaders to develop more climate-resilient communities.
GRESB, GLIO, GPR launch ESG infrastructure index
Three industry organizations have launched the first listed infrastructure index to encourage better ESG disclosure. The Global Listed Infrastructure Organisation, real assets sustainability benchmark provider GRESB and Global Property Research said they have launched the GLIO/GRESB ESG Index.
ESG ratings need regulation: ESMA
As ESG becomes an ever more important factor for investors and issuers alike, European securities regulators are asking legislators to step up oversight for ESG ratings. The market for ESG ratings and other assessment tools is currently unregulated and unsupervised.
New report calls for a minimum energy standard
The idea that everyone should have access to sufficient energy lies at the heart of the microgrid proposition. People may experience energy deficiencies because of poverty, geography or calamity but in all of these circumstances, microgrids can provided reliable energy.
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Clean Fuel Standard to help achieve net-zero by 2050
• Pembina
The Clean Fuel Standard, a proposed federal regulation released in December for public comment, will introduce a broad set of incentives to accelerate Canada’s transition to clean-burning liquid fuels and electric mobility, a policy critical measure for reaching climate goals.
Canada’s green hydrogen strategy not clear
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Is Ottawa’s strategy for Canada’s hydrogen future just hot air? Critics say the strategy, released last month, predicts that, by 2050, we could get 30 per cent of our energy from hydrogen and become one of the world’s top three exporters of green hydrogen.
Aviva Investors may divest from top carbon emitters
Aviva Investors could ditch its stock and bond holdings in the 30 biggest corporate carbon emitters if their boards don’t take sufficient action over climate change, a move that comes as pressure mounts on companies to transition to a lower-carbon economy.
Vail’s sustainability director a guide to zero-net 2030
From the C-Suite to housekeeping, every employee at Vail Resorts is doing their part to help the company reach its goal of a zero net operating footprint by 2030, led by sustainability director Kate Wilson and an 11-member zero-net team.
Clean-tech fund investor MKB raises $100 million
• Globe and Mail (Sub. required)
Montreal private capital firm MacKinnon, Bennett & Co. (MKB) has emerged as one of Canada’s top clean-technology financiers and raised $100 million for its second growth equity fund. Investors include BDC, CDP, FTQ, Fondaction, and Vancouver City Savings Credit Union.
Prince Charles joins top Global 100 CEOs’ call for action
• Corporate Knights • Toronto Star
Every year since 2005, Corporate Knights has unveiled its annual list of the world’s most sustainable companies – the Global 100 – and this year CEOs from four of the world’s most sustainable firms were joined by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
Communicating about climate change a challenge
It’s a tough message 10 months into a devastating pandemic when so many of us are already burnt out yet on the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement in December the message is clear, our CO2 budget is seriously depleted.
Is pursuing a B Corp. designation worthwhile?
Last fall, as a backlash swelled among MEC’s members after the co-op announced a deal to hand over ownership to an American private equity firm, it received some unsolicited advice from Toronto advisory firm Impact Bridge: become a B Corp.
Canadians favour making companies pay for pollution
A new survey of 1.2 million by the United Nations Development Program across 50 countries noted that 64 per cent of those surveyed believe climate change was a global climate emergency and Canadians are among the most climate-conscious in the world.
Factory in Kenya recycles plastic waste into bricks
Nzambi Matee hurls a brick hard against a footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory produced, but it does not crack. The factory produces 1,500 bricks each day made from a mix of different kinds of plastic.
Shake up B.C. logging industry to reduce climate risk: Report
A study commissioned by Sierra Club BC calls for immediate protection of at-risk old-growth forests and more Indigenous involvement in forestry-related decisions. B.C. is running out of time to head off the fires, droughts, floods and other natural disasters.
Industry Events
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Greenbuild 2024: Built to Scale
Nov 12 2024
to Nov 15 2024
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Sustainable Finance Forum 2024
Nov 28 2024
to Nov 29 2024
Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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