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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. and globally by 2040. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together

GreenBiz

I think in a dream world, it is that every product that you would buy is coming from recycled materials that are closed-loop in our own supply chain. In IKEA’s 2019 fiscal year, its e-commerce sales grew by 46 percent, according to website for Ingka Group, its parent company. What would it mean for IKEA to be fully circular? "I

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The rise of the chief sustainability officer

Corporate Knights

Fisher’s personal rise from simply tweaking the supply chain to resetting corporate strategy became emblematic of the growth of the CSO position itself – in sheer numbers and in increasing clout. We’re seeing the CSOs becoming more and more important and more integrated with their organizations’ financial performance.”

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Burberry’s Net Zero Emissions Goals Approved by SBTi

ESG Today

Burberry first set science-based targets in 2019, and last year the company pledged to go beyond net zero, to become “climate positive” by 2040. by 2030, from a 2019 baseline. Scope 3 includes emissions in Burberry’s extended supply chain such as energy usage by manufacturing and material sourcing partners.

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America’s Top 10 Companies for Environmental Performance in 2022

Just Capital

The company’s climate commitment is a verified 1.5 degree Science Based Target , and is informed by its goal to reach net zero emissions by 2030 across its operations and supply chains and its analysis on the carbon impact of remote work. Intuit ranks first among Software companies for its work to address climate change.

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Here’s How You Remain Competitive: Optimization and Digitalization

3BL Media

By mobilizing our ecosystem for a more climate positive world, we estimate our solutions will have saved and avoided 100 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year by 2025. Many of these significant advances towards a climate positive world will be on display. The big picture is that this builds an ecosystem of connectivity.

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Preventing deforestation: How to incentivise smallholders and rural communities to protect forests

Tobias Webb

Picture by the author, September 2019. Cost savings are always pushed along the supply chain and ultimately are inflicted on farmers, who are price-takers, not price fixers. Leverage of supply chain incomes. Picture by the author, Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia, September 2019. What works? Further information.