Last week on Thursday, nearly 1,000 ports and port-related enterprises met in Antwerp, Belgium to sign the charter of the new World Ports Sustainability Program (WPSP). By agreeing to the WPSP charter, the signatories agreed to commit themselves to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, especially a set of five goals closely related to port […]
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Eight major household brands such as PZ Cussons, Johnson & Johnson and Kraft Heinz are refusing to say where their palm oil comes from, despite promising to stop buying from companies that destroy rainforests. Eight others, such as Nestlé and Unilever, have made their palm oil supply chains more transparent. This comes as a new […]
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A new report released today by CDP and CDSB shows that there is a gap between the way companies identify climate-related risks and opportunities and how they are preparing to tackle them. The research into 1,681 companies across 14 countries and 11 sectors disclosing to CDP looks at the four areas of disclosure identified by the Task Force […]
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Today (19 March), Circle Economy, an Amsterdam-based social enterprise, with generous support from eBay Foundation, will launch Circle Lab, an online platform that utilises the power of the crowd to solve universal challenges with circular solutions. “Circle Lab is an ideation platform that leverages and combines the power of crowdsourcing with circular economy expertise, in an open access […]
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How can you apply a one-planet-philosophy to your business? Last week, IUCN NL and WWF NL organized the One Planet Thinking business event at VNO-NCW in The Hague to introduce this philosophy to companies. One Planet Thinking helps businesses formulate truly sustainable targets in accordance with the planetary boundaries of our planet, whilst looking at the balance between different […]
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Fossil fuel companies risk wasting $1.6 trillion of expenditure by 2025 if they base their business on emissions policies already announced by governments instead of international climate goals, Carbon Tracker warns in a report released today, that models the IEA’s 1.75C scenario for the first time. Mind the gap: the $1.6 trillion energy transition risk is […]
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If sustainability now demands radical solutions, we must fully embrace technology and use it to sustain the planet says Jim McClelland (Sustainable futurist, speaker, writer and social-media commentator) in an article. He asked Marga Hoek for her opinion. New models call for new mindsets, argues international non-executive director and author Marga Hoek. “Traditionally, sustainability professionals are […]
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A new interactive web-based analysis released today by Ceres examines how more than 600 of the largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. are responding to urgent calls to act on climate change and other sustainability threats, such as water pollution and scarcity, and human rights abuses, and positioning themselves for success in a world […]
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When the Harvard Business Review named Pablo Isla of Spanish retailer Inditex the Top CEO of 2017, it may have struck some as an odd choice. “Measured on financial returns alone, Isla comes in 18th in our ranking,” reads the article accompanying the list. But, it continues, “his company’s performance on environmental, social, and governance factors, which count […]
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Supply chains tied to multinational corporations represent over 80% of global trade and engage over one in five workers. Supply-chain management therefore has a significant impact on key social and environmental challenges. Despite this importance, there is currently no comprehensive, empirically grounded understanding of how companies address sustainability in their supply chains. Researchers of Stanford […]
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Companies and investors are being asked to support the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 — what some have described as “the closest thing the Earth has to a strategy”— since the public sector alone does not have the resources to do so. At the same time, companies must create value for their shareholders to create […]
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Sustainable management practices are transforming businesses and challenging the status quo by turning sustainability into an integral component of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Today, it can be a key factor in a company’s success. In a comprehensive whitepaper DHL explores the most important parts of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) and discuss its various functional […]
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