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#1282232021-04-22
Eco-Friendly Concrete Solutions for the Protection of Marine and Coastal Infrastructure
The adverse effect that human activity is having on the planet is becoming more apparent each day. Ecological damage is one of the most pressing issues that world leaders and companies seek to address at the moment. Finding sustainable solutions for marine and coastal infrastructure is one issue ...
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#1281272021-04-21
Nature is no longer “a nice to have,” it’s “a must-have”: Q&A with André Hoffmann
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic went global just over a year ago, there had been a notable shift in messaging from some of the world’s largest companies around their responsibility beyond profit maximization. A growing number of firms were making commitments to reduce emissions, diversify thei ...
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#1279642021-04-07
Timberland aims for net-positive impact on nature through regenerative agriculture and circular design
US outdoor wear company Timberland has set a target to have a net-positive impact on nature, with regenerative agriculture and circular design playing key roles in this strategy. The company aims to have 100% of its materials sourced from regenerative agriculture and 100% of its products designe ...
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#1278802021-04-05
Is deep-sea mining a threat to our oceans or the secret to a greener planet?
On March 30, four global companies announced they wouldn't use materials sourced from deep-sea mining in their products and supply chains or fund research into the practice.
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#1278342021-03-29
Behind H&M’s Planet-Positive ‘Manifesto’
Swedish fashion giant H&M is extending its partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for another five years. H&M linked up with WWF to address the environmental impacts of its whole value chain, as well as to champion wider action across the global fashion business, a decade ago.
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#1277292021-03-16
Cutting through complexity: Can biodiversity be embedded into corporate strategies?
In recent months, the importance of biodiversity in combatting the climate crisis has reached a new level understanding, with policymakers and academics peering into this complex topic to try and outline how the private sector can champion it. Here, edie hears from the businesses that have alrea ...
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#1276842021-03-15
To fix fashion’s sustainability problem, we need a little less conversation and a little more action
You can’t have a conversation about fashion these days without touching on the topic of sustainability. The industry’s environmental impacts — from greenhouse gas emissions to microplastics, biodiversity loss and water ecotoxicity — are well-known by consumers and companies alike. But awareness ...
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#1276222021-03-09
Retailers join calls for ‘urgent’ action to restrict harmful tuna fishing methods
Global condemnation is growing at the increasingly widespread use of harmful “fish aggregating devices” (FADs) in the fishing industry, as retailers including Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and the German chain Edeka joined calls for restrictions.
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#1276262021-03-09
The Fashion Pact launches new push to help curb industry's impact on biodiversity
The Fashion Pact has announced the launch of a series of initiatives geared at curbing the sector's impact on biodiversity loss after securing a $2m grant from the Global Environmental Facility.
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#1275712021-03-05
L’Occitane exceeds 2025 biodiversity objective four years early
L’Occitane En Provence has announced it has reached and exceeded one of its primary biodiversity goals four years earlier than originally planned.
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#1275222021-03-04
Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet
Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon defores ...
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#1272922021-02-23
The CLIC™ Chronicles: Yves Rocher – a beauty brand on a sustainability mission. Discover their journey with Bris Rocher, Group CEO
The Rocher Group has been committed to protecting the natural environment and working sustainably for over 50 years. What was the starting point?
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#1270622021-02-12
We need to talk about consumption
I know, it’s not the most popular of subjects. But on the heels of last week’s GreenBiz 21 conference, the annual gathering of corporate sustainability professionals, I can’t help but address the elephant in the room. (Or as the World Resources Institute appropriately dubbed it, the latest eleph ...
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#1269292021-02-09
Refreshing: Coca-Cola introduces 100% recycled bottles in the US
Coca-Cola Co. is introducing 100% recycled plastic bottles in the U.S.—a major shift in its sustainability strategy.The company responsible for more plastic pollution than any other, according to the Break Free From Plastic Campaign, once advocated for plant-based bottles that don’t use fossil-f ...
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#1268272021-02-03
5 corporate conservation issues to give your attention
If 2020 taught us anything, it was that plans can be derailed in an instant, priorities change overnight and what we consider to be pressing challenges one day can become low-priority issues the next. In 2020 all sectors — business, government and NGO — saw their best laid plans unravel or becom ...
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#1267352021-01-27
Gucci outlines ‘nature-positive’ strategy
Luxury fashion brand Gucci has unveiled a new ‘nature-positive’ strategy which it says will target improvements to carbon emissions, climate and biodiversity.
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#1267172021-01-26
Can banks reverse course to become a solution to global deforestation?
Banks have faced increasing criticism in recent years over their ongoing financial support for environmentally destructive industries, but by tweaking their practices they could become part a critical part of the solution to escalating deforestation and habitat destruction worldwide.
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#1265482021-01-11
Prince Charles calls for 'urgent' action as he launches ambitious £7.3billion Earth Charter plan to put green issues at heart of global post-pandemic recovery
The Prince of Wales today called on business leaders across the world to invest in green issues and sustainability as he launched a £7.3billion recovery plan to right a string of 'broken promises' over the environment.
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#1265072020-12-29
How Did Business’s Role in Society Change in 2020?
What are the 10 most important stories about the intersection of business and society in 2020? Covid-related issues top the list and include both ways companies innovated and the roadblocks that resulted in less progress on sustainable development. Other top stories are fossil fuels continuing o ...
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#1264332020-12-23
Fortum Group sets 2021 biodiversity target
Fortum, a European energy firm with activities in over 40 countries, has introduced new biodiversity targets for the entire group, including Uniper. Fortum is committed to several climate and environmental targets, including at least 12 major voluntary measures that enhance biodiversity, to be i ...
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#1264212020-12-22
Legacy beauty brands focus sustainability efforts on biodiversity
The beauty industry has made collective and individual efforts to become more sustainable in 2020, and one area that has received significant attention sits is biodiversity. Simply put, biodiversity is the variety of flora and fauna in a particular ecosystem. But in practice, biodiversity is the ...
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#1263692020-12-21
Why Impact Asset Managment screens its portfolio for deforestation exposure
Julie Gorte is senior vice president for sustainable investing at Impax Asset Management LLC and Pax World Funds. She oversees environmental, social and governance-related research on prospective and current investments as well as the firm’s shareholder engagement and public policy advocacy.
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#1263452020-12-18
Green investors are pushing firms to assess environmental effects
Five years ago, many investors and executives would have politely told Jill Atkins to buzz off. Now they listen keenly when the British academic presents her work, known as “extinction accounting”, which shows how companies are contributing to the demise of honeybees, as well as other species – ...
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#1263222020-12-17
From circularity to climate change: Sustainable fashion in 2020
A tumultuous year in retail saw both gains and losses for sustainability, but analysts say progress is lacking in key areas like climate change.
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#1262852020-12-16
Amazon must stop flooding our oceans with plastic waste
Just last month, Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, announced that he would be donating $791m to 16 environmental organisations to help combat the effects of climate change. The impressive donation is coming from a $10bn fund set up in February to address this critical issue. Amazon also ...
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#1260952020-12-08
European Business & Nature Summit 2020: Green economic recovery to reshape business for nature and people
The European Business & Nature Summit has taken place virtually. Organised by the EU Business@Biodiversity Platform of the European Commission and other partners, and with the participation of Commissioners Sinkevičius and McGuiness, the Summit aims to strengthen the growing movement of companie ...
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#1260272020-12-07
When it comes to biodiversity, businesses are at a loss
You’ve heard it called the "nature crisis," an "ecological collapse" or the "sixth mass extinction." Regardless of the label, there is no doubt that the accelerating decline of biological diversity will have dangerous repercussions for ecological resilience and human health and security.
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#1259792020-12-03
Nestle outlines roadmap to net-zero by 2050, backed with more than £2bn of investment
The multinational food and beverage giant has today (3 December) published a net-zero roadmap detailing the scope of the new targets and its plans for meeting them. The targets have been approved in line with 1.5C by the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).
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#1260012020-12-03
Mary Kay Inc. Expands Partnership With the Nature Conservancy to Protect Waterways Across the Globe
Last year, Mary Kay Inc., an international leader in corporate and social responsibility, announced the company had partnered with The Nature Conservancy to protect Texas fisheries and the Gulf of Mexico. Mary Kay is proud to announce they’ve expanded that partnership with The Nature Conservancy ...
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#1260062020-12-03
AXA’s Chief Risk and Investment Officer Says Biodiversity Loss Among ‘Very Top Risks’
AXA Group’s chief risk and investment officer, Alban de Mailly Nesle is required to ponder myriad dangers to the Paris-based insurer and its 830 billion-euro ($995 billion) asset management arm. He says one of the greatest and most under-appreciated threats to human health, economic vitality and ...
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#1260202020-12-03
Boosted by venture capital, leather alternatives gain steam
High-quality alternatives to animal hides from sustainable production technologies and materials are making headway.San Francisco-based startup MycoWorks announced a $45 million Series B financing in November to scale up its production of its biomaterial called Reishi, a sustainable leather alte ...
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#1259782020-12-02
New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion
This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.
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#1259182020-12-01
Over three quarters of worlds largest companies do not report risks from biodiversity loss: KPMG survey
Businesses worldwide have a critical role to play in addressing the inherent, existential risks of biodiversity loss. Yet, less than one-quarter (23 percent) of companies worldwide at risk from the loss of biodiversity are currently disclosing that risk in their corporate reporting, according to ...
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#1258582020-11-25
Diageo will use 30% less water in every drink it makes as a part of its 10-year sustainability action plan
Diageo, manufacturers of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Guinness, has announced a range of 25 bold and ambitious goals in its ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ plan, aimed at making a positive impact on the world by 2030, in the ‘Decade of Action’ to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Develop ...
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#1258142020-11-24
Why investors are betting on biodiversity
Those of you whose memories still stretch all the way back to the beforetime — January and February — may recall that 2020 was to be a "super year" for biodiversity. Plans called for several global events focusing on the role of nature in mitigating the climate crisis, protecting us against the ...
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#1257932020-11-20
For sustainable business, how do ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules?
How does a business grow and expand, but function in a way that doesn’t overexploit the Earth? A new enterprise is offering an answer to this question. Last week, the Science Based Target Network (SBTN), an offshoot of a global partnership called the Global Commons Alliance (GCA), launched a pro ...
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#1257692020-11-19
Los Angeles and Google partner on 'Tree Canopy' project
Los Angeles and Google have struck a partnership to track canopy density in the huge metropolis to determine which neighborhoods need more trees as a means of fighting extreme temperatures.
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#1257722020-11-19
Tom Ford Launches A Million Dollar Sustainability Prize And A Watch Made Entirely From Ocean Plastic Waste
The statistics are truly alarming. More than eight million tons of plastic enter the oceans each year, the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck full of the stuff into the seas every minute. By 2050, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish.
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#1257442020-11-18
Laugh if you want, but the 'McPlant' burger is a step to a greener world
When McDonald’s announced its plan to launch a plant-based burger earlier this month, Twitter users were quick to mock the product’s unimaginative name: the … McPlant.
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#1255842020-11-06
World’s Largest Banks Funding Biodiversity Loss
It is easy to descry companies engaging in activities that drive biodiversity loss, but there is another player that is equally, if not more responsible. Both direct and indirect involvement with corporations’ activities in global food production, mining, fossil fuels and other harmful environme ...
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#1255412020-11-04
Big insurance urges government and private sectors to invest in protecting biodiversity
Recently, one of the world’s largest insurance companies released a report warning that a fifth of countries worldwide are at risk of ecosystem collapse as biodiversity declines.
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#1255122020-11-03
Building the business case for biodiversity
When businesses review their balance books, the contributions of nature to profits and losses are usually egregiously absent. No company operates in a vacuum. Whether it’s wind, waves or coal providing power; soil microbes boosting crop fertility; or ocean systems helping maintain a stable clim ...
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#1255132020-11-03
Nestlé Romania launches the first biodiversity study for Cozia National Park and accelerates its efforts to achieve net zero emissions target
As part of the POPAS 2020 project, Nestlé Romania launches the first biodiversity study for Cozia National Park, focusing on green areas a year ago, when more than 500 Nestlé volunteers, the Park administration and members of the local community collected more than 40 tons of waste, sent for rec ...
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#1253622020-05-01
Where fashion’s transparency falls short
The resounding message from Fashion Revolution’s annual Transparency Index: many apparel brands are becoming more transparent, considered by many to be a proxy for how aggressive their sustainability efforts are.
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#1253362020-04-30
So You Want To Save Humanity? Manage Nature Like A Business
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, any economic stimulus measures must safeguard nature or governments risk exposing humanity to further pandemics.
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#1252342020-04-22
Airlines seek €12.8bn in coronavirus bailouts without environmental conditions attached
Airlines in Europe have applied for €12.8bn (£11.3bn) government support since the start of the coronavirus pandemic with no binding environmental conditions attached, according to an analysis of the sector’s bailout pleas.
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#1251842020-04-21
Uptick for renewable electricity generation in 2019
While the ongoing health, political, economic and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic continue to preoccupy people across the world, as recovery plans are discussed and taking shape, decision makers are encouraged to use this as an opportunity to set our societies on a more sustainable de ...
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#1251352020-04-17
Microsoft is building a ‘Planetary Computer’ to protect biodiversity
"The species of the world are connected with each other. I think that’s actually one of the lessons, the real reminders, if you will, of the year 2020, as we all live every day with the issues obviously created by COVID-19," observed Microsoft President Brad Smith, during a video launch Wednesda ...
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#1251362020-04-17
Green movement sweeps the spirits world: ‘Solar power’ vodkas, wine that absorbs CO2 in demand
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, climate change still demands global attention, which is why a green movement is sweeping the wine and spirits world.
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#1250102020-04-08
Reports: EU eyeing stronger corporate reporting rules for climate and pandemic risks
Green corporate reporting rules that could see European firms having to disclose the risks they face from climate change, biodiversity loss, and pandemics, in addition to linking executive bonuses to carbon targets, are currently being weighed up by the EU Commission, according to reports.