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PUMA Launches Financing Program to Reward Suppliers for Sustainability...
Sports company PUMA is offering its suppliers in select emerging markets with a new financing program in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group....
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Impact Over Compliance: The Trouble With Certification
Have you heard the one about the fire extinguisher?An auditor was completing an onsite assessment of a production facility for a major apparel brand when he noticed that fire extinguishers were mounted...
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How Forest Restoration Is Turning the Tide on Deforestation
“Climate change and conservation are inextricably linked,” U.S. President Barack Obama said last week at the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii. “Few people understand the stakes...
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How 2 Sports Giants Are Racing to Save the World
Eco-athletes — sports figures who take on environmental issues— are a rare breed as compared to athletes who get involved with social causes, such as cancer and domestic violence. There are several...
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H&M Partners to Develop More Textile Recycling Technologies
Recycling single fibre fabrics – such as denim jeans and wool sweaters – is mechanically possible, but garments are often made from a blend of different fibres, which has historically caused a host of...
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Cisco, Shell Earn Their Places in the DJSI, Others Get the Boot
It’s that time of year again: S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) and Sustainability Investing specialist RobecoSAM have announced the results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI)...
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Nestlé Waters: Working Toward Sustainability Through Better Governance,...
News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, has produced a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and...
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Project Breakthrough: Can Your Brand Deliver Exponential Solutions to the SDGs?
Declaring intent is oh-so-easy. CEOs and other business leaders do it all the time. But delivering against declared pledges can be a very different matter. In recent years, for example, thousands of...
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California Signs Most Ambitious Legislation Yet to Slash GHG Emissions
California’s massive economy is about to face its biggest emissions reductions challenges yet, under new legislation signed late last week by Governor Jerry Brown. With a population of 38 million and...
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How Framing Sustainability as Strength Can Help Win Male Audiences
Are traditional gender norms of “manliness” slowing the advancement of the sustainable economy? Turns out, they might, according to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research.But while prior...
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Forget Video Snacking: Longer Brand Stories Are Hitting Home
How can a brand or a company cut through the noise of our modern media landscape and truly connect with a short-attention span public about the social and environmental issues it really cares about?...
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Uncovering Solar Power’s Hidden Environmental Costs
It’s been a good couple of years for the solar industry. In 2015, some 7.5 megawatts were added to the grid in the United States, according to the Solar Industries Association (SIA), which fueled 19...
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Where’s the Deforestation-Free Beef? New Scorecard Finds No Stand-Out Leaders
A new scorecard released today examined thirteen global fast food, retail and food manufacturing companies and found that even the top-scoring of the group are failing to protect South American...
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WRAP Hopes New Industry Framework, Campaign Will Get Tonnes More Recycling in...
The waste reduction experts at WRAP have brought together representatives from across the waste management sector to create an industry framework that could divert up to 11 million tonnes more...
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Why We've Got Beef with Some of the US' Largest Food Companies
This week, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a report— authored by myself and UCS analyst Lael Goodman— that scored 13 fast food, retail, and food manufacturing companies on their...
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5 Commonly Missed Opportunities in Corporate Sustainability
Sustainability has finally gone mainstream (or, at least, the desire to be seen as doing important work around sustainability and benefit from sustainability credentials has gone mainstream). Well, OK,...
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More Than 3/4 of Americans Say Next President Should Speed Up Adoption of...
As Americans count down to Election Day, more than three-quarters (78 percent) believe the winner of the presidential race should prioritize the faster adoption of renewable energy, according to the...
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Bill Gates, Total Invest $14M in Cellulosic Sugars Company
Business magnate Bill Gates and energy giant Total have backed biofuels company Renmatix in a $14 million investment round. Renmatix developed a new process called Plantrose® that makes converting...
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SDG 2: New Agri-Business Alliance Aims to Tackle Global Food Security by 2030
Today, 37 leading agri-business companies have today launched the Global Agri-Business Alliance (GAA) in Singapore. Their aim is to collectively tackle the major environmental and social challenges...
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Want to Attract Star Employees? The Role of the HR Leader as the Driver of...
Your company’s sustainability commitments help attract the best and the brightest, reduce turnover and enhance productivity. That’s the substance of consistent and compelling research that shows the...
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