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LRQA Acquires Supply Chain Carbon Management Solutions Provider RESET Carbon

ESG Today

London-based assurance services provider LRQA announced the acquisition of supply chain carbon management solutions provider RESET Carbon, in a moves described by LRQA as aimed at strengthening its environmental solutions to help clients meet growing regulatory requirements.

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LRQA Acquires Energy Transition Consulting Firm EcoEngineers

ESG Today

Founded in 2009, Iowa-based EcoEngineers was initially founded to steer low-carbon fuel producers through the complexities of emerging energy regulations in the U.S. London-based assurance services provider LRQA announced that it has acquired energy transition-focused consulting, auditing and advisory firm EcoEngineers.

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GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies?

GreenBiz

The pandemic has put into sharper focus a number of aspects of corporate performance, including business contributions to biodiversity loss and the resulting increased potential for disease outbreaks; and the need for more resilient supply chains, especially for essential goods such as food and medicine, as Guillot pointed out recently on GreenBiz.

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A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging

GreenBiz

The Consumer Goods Forum and others also see a need to take fiber sourcing to the next level, reaching beyond responsible sourcing for each company’s supply chain to landscape-level approaches that reach additional suppliers within a region and support infrastructure and policies to get to a " forest positive " approach. .

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African MBA programs are reclaiming sustainability in business education

Corporate Knights

Since becoming a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education in 2009, GIBS has woven the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deeply into its curriculum, Chiba explains. Ten years ago, sustainability wasn’t part of the conversation, and the program was built around a narrow curriculum.

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Nestlé Launches Sustainably Sourced Chocolate Brand for Travel Retail

ESG Today

The cocoa supply chain is faced with a series of sustainability related challenges, ranging from extreme farmer poverty and child labor to climate impact and deforestation. Nestlé has set a goal to source 100% of its cocoa through the Nestlé Cocoa Plan by 2025.

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Four UK nuclear power plants to stay open longer than planned

Envirotec Magazine

When EDF acquired these stations in 2009 they were all due to end generation by early 2023 which would have left the UK with just one generating nuclear station at Sizewell B. Careful stewardship and around £8bn of investment since 2009 has seen several life extensions for these stations and much higher output than was predicted.”