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lavera Naturkosmetik is now climate-neutral and is protecting 5,023 ha of rain forest in the Amazon region
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Academic Society for Health Advice presents the "talking waste" / PACCOR gives plastic packaging a digital identity / Visually imperceptible barcode helps sort all kinds of plastics
Hamburg (ots) - As part of an environmentally friendly recycling system, PACCOR, the leading international player in the packaging industry, has introduced plastic packaging solutions with digital identity provided by Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC). This innovation enables the correct identification of each ...
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Steinmeier: We cannot lose sight of the other major challenges facing mankind / German President recognises German Environmental Award as "a particularly important message"
Hannover/Osnabrück (ots) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier recognised the German Federal Environmental Foundation's German Environmental Award as "a particularly important message" for us not to lose sight of "other major challenges facing mankind" in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The award, which ...
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German President symbolically presents German Environmental Award via video message / "Taking the climate crisis seriously despite the COVID-19 pandemic "
Hannover/Osnabrück (ots) - Today (25 October 2020), the German Federal Environmental Foundation's German Environmental Award, which has a remuneration of EUR 500,000, is being presented for the 28th time at the HCC Hannover Congress Centrum. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, German President Frank-Walter ...
moreDEKRA is Committed to Sustainability / Expert organization has a consequent 2025 sustainability strategy
Stuttgart (ots) - - DEKRA joins two major initiatives: the UN Global Compact and RE100 - Support for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Measurable targets for climate protection and social responsibility - New DEKRA Sustainability Magazine 2019/2020 sets out progress DEKRA is sharpening its focus on ...
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Climate change: Majority in the EU sees digitisation as part of the solution
Berlin (ots) - - Vodafone Institute's poll "Digitising Europe Pulse": More than half (54%) of the Europeans state that digital technology can play a big role to solve the problems of climate change. - 65% say that tackling climate change is an overarching issue for citizens, politics and businesses. - 72% are willing to bear higher costs if necessary. - Big majority ...
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Röchling Automotive puts sustainable organic plastic on the market
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Bonde: Exceptional dedication to climate protection
Osnabrück (ots) - The DBU German Environmental Prize awards climate economist Prof Dr Edenhofer and the Trappmanns, entrepreneurs in the field of metal packaging - the Honorary Award goes to entomologist Dr Martin Sorg Climate economist Prof Dr Ottmar Edenhofer (59) and the siblings Annika (28) and Hugo Sebastian (37) Trappmann, Managing Directors of the Blechwarenfabrik Limburg, will receive this year's German ...
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Energy Efficiency Award 2020: dena launches latest round of competition
Berlin (ots) - Entries in four categories can be submitted from now on/search is on for successful projects and pioneering concepts/prize money totalling EUR30,000 available The Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena) - the German Energy Agency - is looking for successful formulas to reduce companies' energy consumption and emissions that have an impact on the climate. They ...
moreNew Circular Economy Action Plan: no circular economy without bioeconomy
Berlin (ots) - "European Bioplastics (EUBP) welcomes the new Circular Economy Action Plan (nCEAP). It's an ambitious step forward to transform Europe into a circular economy", says François de Bie, Chairman of European Bioplastics. "As EUBP, we especially endorse the European Commission's (EC) commitment to support the 'sustainable and circular bio-based sector ...
moreField test: compostable plastics break down in less than 22 days in industrial composting
moreThe green future of the packaging industry / How Liquid Glass marches into battle against plastic waste
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Subway in the hot seat: Chickens will besiege corporate headquarters in Amsterdam
Berlin (ots) - One hundred oversized fierce chickens will besiege Subway's European headquarters at Prinsengracht 13 in Amsterdam on Tuesday, 11 February 2020, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. With this "revolt of the chickens", animal rights activists are protesting against the fact that the sandwich company sells meat from chickens that are kept under cruel conditions. They ...
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"Germany-does-not-fly" / The campaign of the year 2020 against domestic flights has started at Frankfurt Int. Airport / "Deutschland-fliegt-nicht" die Kampagne des Jahres 2020 gegen Inlandsflüge startete im Frankfurter Flughafen
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"Bold decisions today will trigger positive interactions for tomorrow" / Federal President presents DBU's German Environmental Award today - Kögel-Knabner and Schneider honoured
Mannheim (ots) - Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on the citizens to "make bold decisions today" in environmental and climate protection to trigger "positive interactions for tomorrow". "The future is not simply predestined. It's up to us what we make of it," he said today at the presentation of ...
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DBU honours innovators in the field of environmental protection who offer solutions for the future
Mannheim (ots) - The German Environmental Prize was awarded to soil researcher Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner and entrepreneur Reinhard Schneider The German Environmental Foundation (DBU) has awarded the German Environmental Prize for the 27th time. Today in Mannheim, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Head of the Board of Trustees of the DBU and ...
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Penta Hotels takes part in World Cleanup Day to support their local communities in cleaning up neighbourhoods
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German Environmental Prize awarded to soil scientist and cleaning products manufacturer / Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (Munich) and Reinhard Schneider (Mainz) honoured on 27 October 2019 in Mannheim
moreNew laboratory study reveals that highly-toxic hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids are released when PTFE burns
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itelligence project wins SAP Innovation Award in "Process Innovator" category / Innovative Environmental Protection Project of itelligence AG Honored by SAP
Orlando/Bielefeld (ots) - itelligence has won an SAP Innovation Award in the "Process Innovator" category with a project involving the use of drones and image recognition for the purposes of environmental protection. These awards honor companies that operate successfully in the digital economy making use of SAP ...
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Energy Efficiency Award 2019: Applications now possible
Berlin (ots) - Private and public sector companies can apply in four categories / Submit competition entries online by 30 June 2019 / A total of EUR 30,000 in prize money The Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena) - the German Energy Agency - is seeking successful projects that measurably reduce companies' energy consumption and emissions that have an impact on the climate. The focus of the internationally advertised award is on ...
moreSeveral European countries accelerate climate change and damage the ozone layer by improper disposal of old refrigerators, environmental organisations DUH, ECOS and EEB reveal
Brussels (ots) - 19 million cooling and freezing appliances (CFAs) discarded in Europe every year have a greenhouse warming potential of up to 26 million tonnes of CO2 - Incorrect treatment in Finland, Germany, Greece and Sweden poses a threat to European climate protection goals - Environmental NGOs urge EU Member ...
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"The effects of climate change are already apparent around the world." / The German President presented the DBU's German Environmental Prize today in Erfurt
Erfurt (ots) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier thanked "thousands of people" in Germany for ensuring that "mainstream society has truly become aware" of both the environment and environmental protection. At the award ceremony for the German Environmental Foundation's (DBU) German Environmental Prize that ...
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The DBU highlights the importance of the oceans for climate, biodiversity and food supply
Erfurt (ots) - German Environmental Prize awarded to marine biologist Antje Boetius and a team of wastewater experts from Leipzig The German Environmental Foundation (DBU) has awarded the German Environmental Prize for the 26th time. Today in Erfurt, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Head of the Board of Trustees of the DBU and Parliamentary State ...
moreReduction of single-use plastics needs to tie in with circular economy actions and consumption realities in Europe
Berlin (ots) - The European Parliament approved yesterday its report on the draft Directive on Marine Pollution and Single-use Plastics. "European Bioplastics fully supports the transition from a linear to a circular economy. Bioplastics enable more sustainable solutions for a range of products", says François de ...
moreClimate Protection in transport: International Conference on Renewable Mobility "Fuels of the Future 2019" - the programme is online
Berlin (ots) - The programme for the 16th International Conference on Renewable Mobility "Fuels of the Future" at www.fuels-of-the-future.com , which will take place on 21/22 January 2019 in Berlin, is now online. Negotiations on the global climate agreement in Katowice in December 2018 (COP24) mark a further ...
moreIndia hosts the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention / 29th September to 2nd October 2018, New Delhi
New Delhi (ots) - Ministers and sanitation sector leaders from around the world will convene this month at the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention (MGISC) in New Delhi. Hosted by the Government of India, this event will be an opportunity for delegates to exchange sanitation successes and best ...
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