The carbon crisis: Four big questions for the packaging industry
What practical steps is the industry taking â and what solutions are on the horizon â to tackle the monumental challenge of carbon reduction? Victoria Hattersley spoke to experts from the Carbon Trust, Amcor, Mondi, Smurfit Kappa and Tetra Pak to get their views on some of the big questions around this issue.
Reducing carbon emissions to avert climate catastrophe is the true existential challenge of our times â far more than Covid or anything else we can conceivably think of. And while the pandemic might have given us some temporary breathing space over the past year as emissions, according to the Global Carbon Budget Report, took a 7% drop, itâs almost certain we will be back on the same destructive path as soon as life returns to what we might blithely consider ânormalâ.