155 companies — with a combined market capitalization of over US$ 2.4 trillion and representing over 5 million employees — have signed a statement urging governments around the world to align their COVID-19 economic aid and recovery efforts with the latest climate science. As debates on recovery packages around the world ramp up in the coming weeks, […]
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Om te voldoen aan de toenemende vraag naar duurzaam hout heeft houtfabrikant Platowood de afgelopen maanden flink geïnvesteerd in de eigen productielocatie in Arnhem. Naast een ‘state of the art’ oven is het machinepark uitgebreid met een vierzijdige schaafmachine en elektrische heftrucks en worden er zonnepanelen op de daken geplaatst. Door de verdere optimalisatie en […]
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ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), the global body for professional accountants, has called for its members to champion the ethical standards and sustainable business practices that will build organisations that deliver more than shareholder profit. Its new report, Accountants, Purpose and Sustainable Organisations, concludes that accountants should be central to advising their organisations on sustainable […]
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Scientists are launching a major new research project in India that will help to engineer an efficient and sustainable delivery mechanism – ready to get an eventual COVID-19 vaccine to billions of people around the globe. Researchers racing to develop, test and manufacture an effective coronavirus vaccine will also need to distribute the drug globally, but universal vaccine […]
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Unilever yesterday celebrated 10 years of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, which is now in its tenth and final year. Alan Jope, CEO, reinforced Unilever’s commitment to making sustainable living commonplace for 8 billion people, and called for collective action to ensure that the crises of social inequality and climate are not neglected in the […]
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Forty leading global organizations have united to launch the COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs, pooling knowledge, experience and responses to alleviate suffering and advance new models of change for a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable world. “Social entrepreneurs and their community partners have been working for years to solve market failures and demonstrate more […]
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An analysis of possible COVID-19 economic recovery packages shows the potential for strong alignment between the economy and the environment. The direction of these measures over the next six months will largely determine whether the worst impacts of global warming can be avoided, and research published today reveals that climate-friendly policies can deliver a better result […]
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Today the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) launched their scoping report with the proposed model for the social transformation. While all companies should support human development through contributing to the 2030 Agenda, they must do it in a responsible way that respects the rights of workers, consumers and the wider community – that is, in a […]
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The New Economics Foundation and Our Fish campaign today called on the EU and its Member States to include ending overfishing in their climate laws, after a new study found that EU countries have overfished by 8.78 million tonnes during the last 20 years [1]. According to the historical analysis released by the New Economics […]
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Fairphone, the social enterprise designing, producing and selling smartphones that looks to change the industry and how products are made and puts ethical values first, and /e/OS, the privacy by design operating system that focuses on protecting user data, are partnering to launch the first privacy conscious and sustainable smartphone in Europe. With today’s announcement, thousands of […]
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Recycling Technologies Ltd (‘Recycling Technologies’), a specialist plastic recycling technology provider and Brightlands Chemelot Campus, an innovation, research and technological growth hub announce today they have signed the first agreement towards the installation of Recycling Technologies’ first European plastic chemical recycling machine, the RT7000, within the Campus in the Netherlands. Recycling Technologies has developed a […]
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To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Nutreco today publishes its online 2019 Sustainability Report, highlighting the work being done across the company at both a global and local level to drive the company’s mission of Feeding the Future. Nutreco CEO Rob Koremans says, “At Nutreco, sustainability remains not only a driving force in our […]
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