Husqvarna Group begins the next phase in sustainability after five years of successfully integrating sustainability deeper into their business through the framework called Sustainovate. With Sustainovate 2025, we have a clear aspiration to lead our industry in the transformation to a resource-smart economy. ”We have made significant progress, especially in reducing our absolute CO2 emissions, achieving […]
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Today, the Fibersort consortium presents the market ready Fibersort machine to the industry; a cutting edge automated sorting technology that revolutionises textile to textile recycling of post-consumer textiles. The mountain of used textiles keeps growing The accelerating consumption and disposal practices in fashion cause textiles entering the market to reach their end-of-use rapidly. In North-West […]
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The automotive industry faces a number of major challenges this year. In addition to the European car market recording timid growth in 2019, CO2 emissions have continued to increase. This despite new regulation designed to curtail this. The Netherlands has again the lowest average of CO2 emissions. Last year, the volume weighted average CO2 emissions for European […]
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Zain Group, the leading mobile telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces the publication of its annual thought leadership report, this year entitled, “The Circular Economy: Embedding Sustainable Solutions in a bid to Save the Planet.” The report captures how the circular economy fits into helping address some of the devastating […]
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Today, the EU Commission has presented a ‘Circular Economy Action Plan‘. For the electronics sector, this initiative will enable longer product lifetimes through reusability and reparability as well as upgradeability of components and software to avoid premature obsolescence. Many of the proposals have long been advocated by Fairphone and have been implemented in the absence […]
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The European Academies of Science (EASAC) warn that current efforts to resolve the plastics crisis are ineffective and misleading. Policymakers and industry must address conflicts in the whole system, from production to end-of-life. “Reducing the leakage of millions of tons of plastic waste into the marine, terrestrial and freshwater environments is incompatible with banking on […]
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The first in a series of challenging sustainability ambitions has been announced by AkzoNobel, which are designed to accelerate the newly focused paints and coatings company towards zero waste and cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. The two key ambitions and their related targets are the first in a wave of measures and focus […]
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G-Star RAW has introduced a range of stretch denim icons for Spring 2020. Each product in the range, which includes the brand’s best-selling icons: 3301 jeans and jacket, D-Staq, Janeh, Kate, Tedie jeans and Scutar jacket, is Cradle to Cradle Certified at the Gold level. Each item in the icons range is produced using only renewable energy […]
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Danone announced a €2 billion climate acceleration plan. The accelerated investment will support new bold commitments to advance some of the Company’s Goals for 2030. Danone’s CEO Emmanuel Faber says: “2019 has been a year of strong progress for Danone both in terms of the delivery and the transformation of our company. The sequential acceleration […]
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The financial year 2019* marks an important break in the trend as the climate footprint of the IKEA value chain decreased while maintaining business growth, decreasing to meet the baseline level of FY16. The IKEA Sustainability Report FY19 is released today and outlines progress from across the IKEA value chain and franchise system against the […]
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has launched a new online learning platform to support businesses in raising awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within their organizations. By spending 10 – 15 minutes navigating this platform, users will undergo a crash-course in the SDGs and their relevance to business, setting them up […]
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The UN Global Compact recognizes that procurement teams have a key role to play in creating sustainable supply chains. Companies that commit to advancing decent work conditions in their supply chain not only prevent risks of adverse impacts but can also significantly improve lives and lift millions out of poverty. To help empower procurement officers […]
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