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Making supply chains work: the sustainability advantage
Request Free Trial Joanna Radeke is director of the ESMT Institute for Sustainable Transformation in Berlin, and leads the Sustainable Business Roundtable, a peer learning network of 29 international companies, including DHL Group, Siemens and Marcatus QED, working to turn sustainability ambitions into concrete corporate action The most resilient companies will be those with the greater adaptive ecosystems To continue reading Request free trial Make sense of regulatory change with our global...
The Electric Truck Revolution Comes - Quietly - to the Waste Hauling Industry
The electric vehicle certainly has come a long way from the ill-fated EV1 sedan of the 1990’s, but questions still remain regarding the ability of an electric truck to perform heavy duty tasks, like hauling garbage. That concern has been put to rest by the waste management firm Republic Services. The company has just inked a deal with the startup Nikola Corp. for up to 5,000 battery-operated waste hauling and recycling collection trucks.
The Three Biggest Hurdles to a Zero Carbon Economy
Globally, we are at a tipping point when it comes to climate action. There's long been talk about moving toward a zero carbon economy, but it's clear the time to move in that direction is sooner rather than later. Over the past few years, corporations have committed to emission reductions and to adopt strategies that will drive the broader sustainability transformation — a trend that significantly picked up pace in 2020.
Decarbonization In the Age of Coronavirus
Amidst all the negative news about the COVID-19 pandemic, there is also a silver lining – as in the potential for decarbonization. A recent analysis published in the journal Nature shows that CO2 emissions decreased daily by 17 percent by April 2020 relative to the mean emissions of 2019. For the first time since the financial crisis in 2010, global CO2 levels have gone down, yet can we see what a sustainable future could look like? Not really.
It’s Time to Scale Up Recycled Toilet Paper Worldwide
Over the past twenty-five years, toilet paper sales have increased every year, even during this global economic crisis. A major reason for this increase is the growing buying power in developing countries. As this product's sales are projected to “grow roughly on par with GDP,” and because developing countries’ GDPs are projected to increase 6.6 percent in 2021, developing countries are the drivers of new growth in this market.
NGO Calls Leading European Bank’s Coal Phase-Out Policy a ‘Sham’
New phase-out measures announced by one of France’s largest banks, Société Générale (SocGen), which outlines how the company will exit the coal sector by 2030 in the European Union and OECD nations - and by 2040 for the rest of the world - have been labeled a “sham intending to mislead.” Reclaim Finance, a Paris-based NGO and think tank that advises on fossil fuel divestment, has contended that the bank’s latest policy for a 2030-2040 phase-out strategy does not cover the financing...
How Nike Embraced CSR and Went From Villain to Hero
This article is part of a series on “The ROI of Sustainability,” written with the support of MeterHero. It was only 20 years ago that consumers were protesting outside Niketown stores, and news stories were casting Nike in the role of villain amid child labor and sweatshop allegations. It’s hard to believe, given the steady stream of corporate social responsibility (CSR) accolades the company has racked up in the last 10 years, that Nike was facing boycotts and public ire throughout the 1990s.
Better corporate governance can end slavery in supply chains
Slavery has been widely recognized as a crime against humanity. Yet nearly 70 years after it was addressed by Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, slavery remains a disturbing reality of the world’s labour markets. In the private sector especially, some 16 million people are enslaved – forced to work in sectors as diverse as agriculture, construction and the cosmetics industry.
Sustainability Managers Could Lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution
If you close your eyes, and imagine that a more sustainable world has come true, what do you see? Is it anything like what Andreas Kicherer, director of sustainability strategy at the chemical company BASF, sees? He recently shared this vision of such a future via the business sustainability platform I manage: This future is achievable.
Staying the Course in Funding Climate Change Solutions
Investing in tackling climate change is one of the most significant actions that governments and philanthropic funders alike can make today. Painstaking scientific research gives ample reason to fund these efforts—research shows that we have hit the highest-ever concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in all of human history.
Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0
What sustainability topic do both investors and accountants get excited about? Impact assessment. Driven by thought leaders and a genuine need to finally measure the impact of corporate sustainability programs, the quest for a perfect impact assessment tool will soon dominate the sustainability scene. The search is already underway.
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