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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together

GreenBiz

Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. 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. Despite the significant challenges we’re facing in the world, we still have it in our own hands to change the direction of the climate crisis.

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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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Demystifying the ?Absolute Zero? concept

GreenBiz

Fri, 05/29/2020 - 02:15. The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts. Heather Clancy.

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Coalition of Consumer Goods Companies Pushes for Corporate Investment in Production Landscapes in Latest Report

3BL Media

Such investment is a key element of the Coalition’s Forest Positive Approach , a set of actions that Coalition members are committed to implementing in their own supply chains through commodity-specific KPI reporting and, in collaboration with their upstream supply chain partners, in businesses and production landscapes across the value chain.

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Collaboration, Transparency and Monitoring Enabling Faster Deforestation Progress, Shows the Consumer Goods Forum’s Report

3BL Media

The report, ‘Perspectives on Progress: Challenges and Insights on the Way to Forest Positive’ , marks three years since the Coalition started implementing its Theory of Change. Being forest positive for us means sustainable economic development, improved livelihoods, and climate positive outcomes.

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Burberry Steps Out With New £300m Sustainability Loan

3BL Media

Burberry has strengthened its resolve to be climate positive by 2040 by refinancing a credit facility to a £300m Sustainability Linked Loan. The firm committed to the climate positive target last June, which will place the company ten years ahead of the 1.5C pathway laid out in the Paris Agreement.

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