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Big business flexes its muscles on clean energy in crucial year for climate action

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The world’s most influential companies are actively engaging with policy makers and utilities to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, a new RE100 report finds today (December 2) – but governments must now remove the remaining barriers. Going 100% renewable: how companies are demanding a faster market response is the 2019 RE100 Progress and Insights Annual Report from international […] ... lees meer

IKEA invests 200 million euros to speed up action to become climate positive by 2030

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In connection with COP25, Inter IKEA Group announces the decision to invest 200 million euros to speed up the transformation to become a climate positive business. The investment will focus on two portfolios – one to transform the IKEA supply chain into using renewable energy, and one to remove carbon from the atmosphere through reforestation, […] ... lees meer

Dutch COROOS participant in ChemCyclingTM: sourcing of feedstock from post-consumer plastic waste to produce virgin grade material

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Leading global packaging and paper group Mondi, in cooperation with chemical producer BASF and the Dutch company COROOS, one of the biggest European companies in the preservation of fruits, vegetables and pulses for premium A-brands and private label products, have cooperated on a state-of-the-art pilot project. Together they produced a stand-up pouch that is safe […] ... lees meer

Child labour and human trafficking remain important concerns in global supply chains

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A new report indicates that a significant share of child labour and human trafficking in global supply chains occurs at their lower tiers, in activities such as raw material extraction and agriculture, making due diligence, visibility and traceability challenging. The report, Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains, provides the first ever […] ... lees meer

Circular economy: Consumers seek help

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People mostly agree on the biggest environmental challenges of our time and many say they already participate in a movement towards a circular economy by reusing and recycling resources, but the latest ING International Survey on Circular economy finds consumers think initiatives from businesses and structural changes are required.  ING’s latest International Survey explores consumer […] ... lees meer

Leading consumer goods companies directly linked to deforestation: soybean, cattle, paper & palm oil risks potential threat to global supply chains

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The world’s global consumer goods companies, including Kraft Heinz, RBI and Tyson Foods, are off track to achieve sustainable consumption and production by 2030, and industry commitments to zero net deforestation by next year are now impossible, according to new research by CDP, the environmental non-profit and investment research provider. The CDP Consumer Deforestation Report ‘No […] ... lees meer

Most businesses failing on human rights due diligence, major ranking shows

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The latest Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB – a part of the World Benchmarking Alliance) – shows how most companies in the apparel, food & beverage, extractive and tech manufacture sectors are failing to meet basic corporate human rights expectations.   CHRB measures how companies perform across 100 indicators based on the UN Guiding Principles on […] ... lees meer

United Nations Global Compact issues new report to help companies advance human rights

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The United Nations Global Compact published a new report to help the business sector advance human rights. To be distributed at the 2019 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva next week, the publication — Navigating the Future of Business and Human Rights: Good Practice Examples — addresses how companies can embed human rights […] ... lees meer

Private consumption: Textiles EU’s fourth largest cause of environmental pressures after food, housing, transport

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Consumption of clothing, footwear and household textiles in the European Union (EU) uses annually about 1.3 tonnes of raw materials and more than 100 cubic metres of water per person, according to a European Environment Agency briefing, published today. A wide-scale change towards circular economy in textiles production and consumption is needed to reduce its […] ... lees meer

Shell to support Europe’s first sustainable aviation fuel plant

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Shell has announced that it will support SkyNRG to develop Europe’s first dedicated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant. The development of the DSL-01 production plant in Delfzijl, Netherlands, is led by SkyNRG, a global market leader for SAF and a long-term strategic partner of Shell Aviation. Shell will bring its technical and commercial expertise […] ... lees meer

Major transformations needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU by 2030

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The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) publish today the first independent quantitative report on the progress of the European Union and its member states towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agreed by all UN member states in 2015. The Netherlands ranks on place 7 in the ranking of […] ... lees meer