Transport accounts for 11% of the overall carbon footprint of HEINEKEN and, as a key pillar of the Brewing a Better World strategy, the company is committed to investing in innovative and sustainable solutions for its logistics. Together with a broad coalition of consumer goods companies, vehicle manufacturers, technology providers and truck operators, HEINEKEN announced […]
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Just as companies were getting up to speed with their sustainability efforts, Covid-19 suddenly threatened their very survival. But the recent survey by Bain & Company of nearly 150 business leaders shows that sustainability remains high on most corporate agendas. Covid-19 has increased the importance of sustainability for nearly half of those executives interviewed, with […]
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched a new report on the circular bioeconomy, titled “The business opportunity contributing to a sustainable world”. The circular bioeconomy addresses urgent environmental priorities and the report presents an estimated economic opportunity for bio-based products to complement or even substitute conventional ones worth USD $7.7 trillion by […]
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Nestlé and Jacobs Douwe Egberts UK (JDE UK, part of the JDE Peet’s Group), the two biggest players in the UK coffee industry, covering brands including Nespresso, Nescafé Dolce Gusto and Tassimo, have joined forces to create Podback: a first of its kind recycling programme for coffee pods. Podback, a not-for-profit organisation, is the UK’s […]
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Global businesses are facing an era of unprecedented disruption and transformation as a direct result of climate change. The financial cost of climate risk, estimated to be upwards of US$1 trillion, poses a significant threat to businesses, and a joint survey of more than 500 director and C-suite executives from the world’s leading companies, conducted […]
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Arcadis, a Dutch based leading global Design & Consultancy organization for natural and built assets, expects growth opportunities due to increasing client demand driven by mega trends such as urbanization, climate change, digitalization and societal expectations. By putting sustainability at the center of all client solutions, Arcadis will accelerate revenue growth and improve its operating […]
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Greenwashing is detrimental to both business and the common effort to avert the climate crisis, claims Norwegian organization Skift, supported by over 200 companies. Their call to action is supported by other business networks, as well as former CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman, and the President of European Parliament Environment Committee, Pascal Canfin. “Responsible businesses worldwide need […]
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HEINEKEN is amongst the highest ranking companies of the beverage sector in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index 2020. After 2019 and 2018, we again succeeded in improving our ranking from the 6th place in 2019 to the 5th place in 2020, in the Beverage sector. In the Beverage sector 48 companies participated. In all dimensions, Economic, […]
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Royal Philips today announced that it has once again been named as a leading company for sustainability performance in the global 2020 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) list. Philips scored 81 out of 100 points in the DJSI Health Care Equipment & Services industry group, continuing its #2 ranking. Evaluated across the Governance & Economic, Environmental […]
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The results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) review have been announced. Randstad is proud to be included as the only HR services provider in the Professional Services industry of the DJSI World index. This year, Randstad was assessed as best in class by S&P Global on the criterion Risk & Crisis management. […]
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The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has today launched its fourth edition of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) assessing 230 of the world’s most influential companies on their human rights disclosures. Nearly half of the global companies assessed are failing to demonstrate they are conducting human rights due diligence in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles […]
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A group of leading global investors has written to 36 of Europe’s largest companies through the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), to call on firms to properly reflect the implications of global commitments to limit temperature increases to well below 2°C, and ideally to 1.5°C, in their financial statements. The companies also receive […]
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