A new survey conducted by research company YouGov and supply chain commerce cloud provider GT Nexus, an Infor Company, confirms a lack of brand loyalty among 18-34 year-olds while uncovering surprising factors that drive brand disloyalty. According to the survey, 67 percent of US millennials admit to having switched one of their favorite brands in […]
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Corporate sourcing of renewable electricity can be a major driver of the transition to a robust, zero-emissions economy, according to this year’s RE100 Annual Report, released today to coincide with the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. RE100 is the global, collaborative initiative of the world’s most influential companies committed to 100% renewable power, led by The Climate […]
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In August 2015, 193 countries agreed on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which replaced the millennium goals set in September 2000. At the UN Sustainable Development Summit at the end of September they were presented in New York under the name: Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 2015 was a […]
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More than 40 industry leaders have endorsed a new action plan to tackle global plastics issues, and have begun working together to create a more effective global system for plastics. The action plan is presented in The New Plastics Economy: Catalysing action, a new study by the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation […]
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More than 35 CEOs and civil society leaders of the Business & Sustainable Development Commission (the Commission) today reveal that sustainable business models could open economic opportunities worth at least US$12 trillion and up to 380 million jobs a year by 2030. Putting the Sustainable Development Goals, or Global Goals, at the heart of the […]
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A new international study by Unilever reveals that a third of consumers (33%) are now choosing to buy from brands they believe are doing social or environmental good. The study asked 20,000 adults from five countries how their sustainability concerns impact their choices in-store and at home. Crucially, it then mapped their claims against real […]
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The Global Sustainable Competiveness Ranking 2016 is topped by Sweden, followed by the other 4 Scandinavian nations. The Netherlands is ranked on place 29 (in the 2015 edition on place 28). Key take-aways – some surprising, others not-so-surprising – of the 2016 Index include: The Sustainable Competitiveness Index is topped by Scandinavian nations four the […]
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The European Union and EU member states would benefit from higher economic growth, more jobs and a cleaner environment if governments shifted taxation from labour to pollution, the use of natural resources and consumption. It would result in 2% higher GDP levels, additional employment for 6.6 million people, and reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of […]
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Consumers in dominant collectivist cultures, such as India and South Korea, are more likely to support corporate social responsibility, or CSR, initiatives from brands based in their own country as opposed to foreign or global corporations, according to a new study that includes a University of Kansas marketing and consumer behavior researcher. The researchers found […]
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Nutreco has launched its new sustainability programme Nuterra, which sets out the company’s sustainability strategy and provides tools to implement it throughout the entire organisation. Building on existing efforts in the animal nutrition and aqua feed businesses of Nutreco, the new programme is more customer-centric and focused on actionable strategies and controls. Nuterra has been […]
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Too few companies get clear sustainability performance messages out to their investors and one of the main barriers is the internal dynamic between Sustainability and IR departments. This is a key finding from SustainAbility’s latest research, Closing the Sustainability-Investor Relations Gap. The research makes the case for stronger internal engagement between Sustainability and Investor Relations (IR) […]
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The 2016 ET Carbon Rankings report demonstrates that investors can help drive decarbonisation of the economy and make money by switching investment to favour companies with above-average levels of carbon efficiency. It reveals that out of the world’s 2,000 biggest companies, the 1,000 least carbon-intensive have outperformed the 1,000 most carbon-intensive over the last five […]
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