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Post-Climate Week momentum toward building a climate-stable future continued this week: Public-private partnerships The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and the Coalition for Climate-Resilient Investment have launched solutions aimed at improving infrastructure, energy, agriculture and more around the world; and the C40 World Mayors Summit has yielded unprecedented support for a Global Green New Deal.
BUSINESS
Purpose at Work: How Wrangler Is Creating the Next Generation of Sustainable Fashion
Wrangler is taking big steps to achieve sustainability. By tackling the industry’s biggest challenges, the jeans giant is carving out a competitive advantage and helping other apparel makers improve industry practices.
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BUSINESS
Sea Change: How to Spark Sustainable Innovation in an Old-School Industry
Many people and organizations, as well as broad market and social trends, contributed to sustainable seafood’s arrival at this place. Everyone who engaged helped build the network; and because they did, our oceans and plates are going to be healthier.
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BUSINESS
Trending: Public-Private Partnerships Foster Solutions for Climate-Resilient World
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance has launched six new financial instruments for climate-related projects in developing countries; while the World Economic Forum has convened public and private partners to launch the Coalition for Climate-Resilient Investment.
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COMMUNICATIONS
Mayors Recognize Global Climate Emergency, Support Global Green New Deal
At the C40 Summit in Copenhagen, mayors of 94 cities herald a Global Green New Deal to “drive an urgent, fundamental and irreversible transfer of global resources away from fossil fuels and into action that averts the climate emergency.”
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COMMUNICATIONS
Evolving Consumer Palettes Demanding Better-Made Beverages
As we see greater attention to the growing climate crisis, plastic pollution and other global sustainability challenges, beverage makers who do more to reduce their impact stand to gain, while those stuck in a tone-deaf, business-as-usual model will be left behind.
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INNOVATION
With New Absolute-Reduction Strategy, Unilever ‘Gets Drastic on Plastic’
By 2025, the CPG giant says it will eliminate more than 100K tonnes of plastic packaging, and collect and process more plastic packaging than it sells. This makes Unilever the first global CPG company to commit to an absolute plastics reduction across its portfolio.
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