By Shilpa Tiwari, Corporate Knights The ESG landscape is on the brink of transformation. With AI taking over repetitive tasks, sustainability pros are being freed up to think big. ESG and AI. These ubiquitous acronyms are garnering significant media attention, and with good reason. According to the latest Future of …
Just 4% of Top Companies Meet UN Climate Target Guidelines, Study Says
By Simon Jessop, Reuters LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) – Half of the world’s 2,000 biggest listed companies have set a target to get to net-zero emissions by mid-century, but just a fraction meet tough United Nations guidelines for what constitutes a quality pledge, a report on Monday showed. Net Zero …
Student Demand for Low-Impact Meals Increases After Climate-Labeled College Menus
Sustainable Brands Results from first year of Chartwells Higher Education’s exclusive partnership with HowGood show positive correlations between climate labels on menus and sustainable choices. Last year, millions of US students started seeing the social and environmental impacts of the food they ate through an exclusive climate labeling partnership between Chartwells Higher Education — …
Unprecedented Industry Collab Paves Way for Decarbonization of Global Supply Chains
Sustainable Brands With foundational support from Apple, Amazon, Meta, Nike, PepsiCo and REI, the Clean Energy Procurement Academy aims to equip companies with the knowledge required to shift to clean energy. Supply chain emissions — aka Scope 3 emissions — account for more than half of global greenhouse gas emissions and can represent …
Regenerating Local: Starting Small to Build Exponential Shared Value
By Hope Freedman, Sustainable Brands This week at SB’23 San Diego, over 1K sustainability practitioners have converged to share insights, tools, inspiration and collaboration opportunities aimed at building a regenerative future for all. Here, our opening-night keynotes highlight the first of many examples this week of businesses creating benefits on the …
UK Must Offer Businesses Certainty Over Green Energy, says Boss of FTSE 100 Firm
By Jasper Jolly, The Guardian Miles Roberts of packaging-maker DS Smith warns manufacturing will decline unless government provides clarity about decarbonisation. The UK risks seeing its manufacturing sector fall behind rival economies if the government does not offer certainty over policies on shifting to green energy, according to the head …
Forest Loss from SE Asia Rubber is up to 3 Times More than Thought – Study
Reuters SINGAPORE, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Forest loss driven by rubber production in Southeast Asia could be two to three times higher than estimated, highlighting the challenges facing importers under pressure to find sustainable supplies, research showed on Wednesday. Increasing global rubber demand is adding to pressure on natural forests …
Net-Zero Goals Have the Right Ambition, But Most Lack a Clear Path to Realization
By Geoff Nudelman, Sustainable Brands According to Capgemini research, the CPG and retail industries exemplify some of the most common issues when it comes to turning net-zero goals into measurable action. According to a 2023 Net Zero Tracker report, less than 5 percent of a group of companies that have publicly stated net-zero …
Connecting the Dots: Digital Tools Helping Companies Tackle Scope 3 Emissions
By Max Winograd, Sustainable Brands Quantifying scope 3 is undeniably daunting. But the Partnership for Carbon Transparency is working to create the ‘internet for emissions data’ — which would set a common framework for all organizations to seamlessly connect, exchange and derive insights from emissions data. When it comes to …
California to Require Big Firms to Reveal Carbon Emissions in First Law of its Kind
By Dharna Noor, The Guardian Measure signed into law by Gavin Newsom on Saturday is strong blueprint for national climate accountability, experts say. A groundbreaking California law will force large companies doing business in the state – including major global corporations – to disclose their planet-heating carbon emissions. The measure, signed into …