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 …
How a New Wave of Lawsuits is Targeting Airline “Greenwashing”
By Calum Mclaren, Corporate Knights Can anti-greenwashing lawsuits stop airlines from profiteering from the climate crisis? A wave of anti-“greenwashing” litigation is seeking to hold major players in the aviation industry to account for sensational claims of being sustainable, low-carbon or contributing to net zero. While the industry has faced legal …
Feeding Seaweed to Cows can Cut Methane Emissions, says Swedish Report
By Miranda Bryant, The Guardian Study proposes government to commission more research into environmental benefits of cattle feed additives. Sweden is one step closer to making the use of methane-reducing cow feed additives such as seaweed government policy after experts recommended further investigation into the area. A report by the …
New Report Urges Insurance Companies to Stop Underwriting Climate Change
By Sustainable Brands ‘Underwriting Our Planet’ finds that rather than addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, many economic activities underwritten by insurance companies actually fuel the twin crises. WWF Switzerland and Deloitte Switzerland have co-launched a report that offers a first comprehensive insight into the impact of insurance companies’ underwriting business on climate change and biodiversity …
As DOE Invests $1.2B in Direct Air Capture, Climate Justice Groups Decry Business as Usual
By Christian Yonkers, Sustainable Brands Many see DAC as a necessary, if imperfect, tool for achieving needed carbon reductions; but climate justice groups oppose anything that perpetuates petrochemical operation, which often disproportionately harms communities where they are built. As part of the Biden administration‘s Investing in America agenda, the US Department of Energy (DOE) recently …