BSI, the business improvement company, has published the first standard on climate adaptation, BS EN ISO 14090 Adaptation to climate change – Principles, requirements and guidelines. It offers a framework that enables organizations to give appropriate consideration to climate change adaptation when designing and implementing policies, strategies, plans and activities. Organizations are facing the physical, financial, […]
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CEOs say business contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is not on track, according to the world’s largest study on corporate sustainability from the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture. Launched at the United Nations in New York, the UN Global Compact-Accenture Strategy 2019 CEO study — ‘The Decade to Deliver: A Call to […]
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A new GSMA study shows increased contribution by the mobile industry against all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) over the past year. The 2019 edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Industry Impact Report, published today at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, highlights the role mobile technology and connectivity is playing […]
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Another year of record heat waves, fires in the Amazon and Siberia, and the ice caps at their smallest for centuries. The time for debate is over – now it’s time to take urgent action,” said Eric Rondolat, CEO of Signify, who spoke yesterday during the opening ceremony of Climate Week New York City. According […]
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Global dairy industry leaders come together with a streamlined approach to sustainability measures in business-to-business transactions. Dairy industry leaders have announced their support for the Sustainable Dairy Partnership (SDP) today at the International Dairy Federation World Dairy Summit, in Istanbul. Representing approximately 30% of the total global milk volume, farmer cooperatives, processors, buyers and retailers have […]
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As leaders from around the world gather in New York for Climate Week NYC, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Material Economics, has launched Completing the Picture: How the Circular Economy Tackles Climate Change. The paper reveals the need for a fundamental shift in the global approach to tackling climate change. Moving to renewables can […]
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Circle Economy’s latest report: Circular Jobs in Belgium; A baseline analysis of employment in the circular economy in Belgium, provides insight into the nature and amount of jobs in the country’s circular economy. The research, supported by the Belgian King Baudouin Foundation, presents a baseline measurement on employment in the Belgian circular economy. The report […]
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Yesterday, Amazon and Global Optimism announced The Climate Pledge, a commitment to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. Amazon today becomes the first signatory of this pledge. The Climate Pledge calls on signatories to be net zero carbon across their businesses by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Accord’s goal of 2050. Companies that […]
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The 2019 Social Progress Index results are released, which provide comprehensive new insights into what life is really like for more than 7 billion people across 149 countries around the world. The Netherlands ranks on the 11th place in this new edition. The Social Progress index is the first holistic measure of a country’s social and environmental […]
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BCG issued the report “A Circular Solution to Plastic Waste”. Plastics have delivered enormous societal benefits including providing product safety and enabling storage and complex transportation, among others. We produce some 350 million tons of plastics every year. The problem is that we have been unable to manage the waste they create at a sustainable […]
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Over the next year, all flights by SHV Energy head office employees with KLM, Air France and Delta will run on sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). Joining the KLM Corporate BioFuel programme helps SHV Energy to further lower the CO2 emissions. It also underlines SHV Energy’s strategic decision to develop and actively contribute to the production […]
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Fairphone and iFixit are glad to announce that the Fairphone 3 has received the top repairability score of 10/10. The recently released modular phone is—besides the Fairphone 2—the only phone worldwide to receive this score from iFixit. At a time when the ICT sector is becoming an increasingly large contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions iFixit and Fairphone highlight the […]
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