renewable

Retail Asia20/12/2021

PepsiCo Australia has effectively converted to 100 percent renewable electricity across all of its operations. Focusing on reducing global emissions, this initiative helps PepsiCo limit the amount of CO2 added into the environment – around 26,000 tones per year – and goes some way in helping the business hit its target to achieve net-zero emissions […]

Retail Asia02/12/2021

Vietnam plans to have renewables account for 75 percent of national power production capacity and 70 percent of actual production by 2045 under its COP 26 commitments. The targets have been set as part of the country’s transition to clean energy after PM Pham Minh Chinh committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 at the […]

Retail Asia05/05/2021

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Electronics giant Samsung Vietnam has proposed that it joins a trial program to purchase power directly from renewable power plants instead of monopoly distributor Vietnam Electricity. Choi Joo Ho, CEO of Samsung Vietnam, submitted the proposal to the Ministry of Industry and Trade last week. He asked that the company participates in the Direct Power Purchase […]

Retail Asia19/11/2018

In a bid to reduce global air pollution, Swedish home furnishing company IKEA last week announced its plan to turn rice straws into a new renewable material source for its products. The project, part of the company’s ‘Better Air Now’ initiative, will begin from India and is focussed on New Delhi, Gurugram and Faridabad which are among […]

Retail Asia18/10/2018

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As part of McDonald’s initiative to use its scale to contribute to positive changes in the communities where it operates, Arcos Dorados – McDonald’s franchisee in Latin America and the Caribbean- will cease to offer plastic straws in its 2,100 restaurants across the region, from October 31. Straws will be provided only for those customers who […]

Tag: renewable

PepsiCo Australia achieves its renewable energy target

Vietnam targets 75 pct energy from renewables by 2045

Samsung Vietnam proposes direct purchase of renewable energy

IKEA to turn pollution-causing rice straws into products in India

McDonald’s Starts Reducing Plastic