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Global war on plastic waste gathers speed with powerful new allies
Terry Slavin, (Oct 10, 2019)

Terry Slavin rounds up a slew of new initiatives as BlackRock enters partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Unilever commits to halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025, PepsiCo launches a green bond, and Andrew Forrest's Sea the Future initiative to tax plastic use wins Fortune 500 backing
‘The consumer revolt over single-use straws is just the beginning’
Yasmin Crowther, (Nov 20, 2018)

Yasmin Crowther of Polecat Intelligence says Coca-Cola is the brand most in the firing line, but all companies will be caught in the widening net of concerns over plastic waste
Analysis: UK retailers’ plastics pact ‘must be backed up by real change’
Angeli Mehta, (May 4, 2018)

Angeli Mehta peels the lid off the commitment by Britain’s biggest supermarkets and brands to create a circular economy for plastics by 2025 and finds that huge barriers will need to be overcome
CSR Cheat Sheet: Plastics war comes to Davos
Oliver Balch, (Jan 25, 2018)

Big brands announce slew of recycling targets at WEF; growing gender pay gap; colleges falling short on sustainability teaching, SDG reporting grows
CSR Cheat Sheet: 'No company will meet its 2020 zero-deforestation goals'
Oliver Balch, (Dec 19, 2017)

Nestlé, Mars, Marks & Spencer, Danone and Kellogg top scorers in Forest 500 report; ocean plastics backlash grows; EU probes IKEA tax affairs

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Shell wants 'to be at the leading edge, not the bleeding edge' with climate plan

Posted on Sep 3, 2019

Amid accusations that the Anglo-Dutch oil major is trying to extend an unsustainable business model with its embrace of nature-based climate solutions and increased investment in gas, Terry Slavin interviews Shell New Energies' Mark Gainsborough about Shell's Net Zero Carbon Footprint plan

All eyes on China as national carbon market plan emerges from haze

Posted on Sep 1, 2019

As Beijing ramps up preparations to create the world’s largest carbon market, the burning question is whether it will eventually be part of a global market, reports Jill Baker

‘The IPCC land use report is a wake-up call for Big Food’

Posted on Aug 15, 2019

Maria Lettini of FAIRR argues that scientists, and an increasing number of consumers and investors have recognised the climate imperative for the food sector to transition away from meat and dairy products toward alternative proteins

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Global war on plastic waste gathers speed with powerful new allies

Posted on Oct 10, 2019

Terry Slavin rounds up a slew of new initiatives as BlackRock enters partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Unilever commits to halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025, PepsiCo launches a green bond, and Andrew Forrest's Sea the Future initiative to tax plastic use wins Fortune 500 backing

‘Commodity markets still work to keep farmers poor. At Fair Trade we are working to change that’

Posted on Oct 9, 2019

Erinch Sahan of the World Fair Trade Organization says the social enterprises that are producing chocolate from bean to bar show the value that can be generated for communities when the global movement thinks beyond the farm gate

'We are 43 years behind schedule on achieving the SDGs, and the US is going backwards'

Posted on Sep 24, 2019

Michael Green of the Social Progress Imperative calls for the richest countries to put their own houses in order as new index reveals that it will take until 2073 to meet the Global Goals, with climate change acting as a big brake on progress

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