Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It also alleges that they failed to dispose of waste properly, and exacerbated flooding by clearing forests in water catchment areas. Instead of greenwashing, these multi-billion dollar companies should use their public platforms to ensure AAL remedies the harm it has done to impacted communities and the environment.”

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

Connecting demand – supply chain – and delivery is the first step, but evolving a great customer experience takes it a step further and puts sustainability front and center. Reduce Waste. Market and investor pressure, business impact, and customer pressure are shaping the demand for sustainable business practices.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 19, 2022

Sustainable and responsible sourcing: Supply chain diversity has been readily adopted by companies in recent years, but what about carbon, water, waste, and other elements of ESG that companies still need to tackle with their suppliers? What work do you have left to attain a sustainable and responsible supply chain?

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The United Nations Global Compact says that within social sustainability, there are four main audiences that organizations must consider: employees, customers, supply chain workers, and local communities. In fact, 50% of Gen Z consumers believe that organizations or brands are greenwashing.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Clothing production accounts for 10% of global CO2 emissions and textile dying yields 20% of global waste water. Additionally, some businesses are trying to convince consumers that their products are more sustainable than they are by using “greenwashing” buzzwords like “zero waste” and “organic.”.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 18, 2023

million tonnes of plastic each year but currently we’re only recycling about 13% of this waste. The framework will be designed to help guide businesses in recycled content supply chains to improve traceability of recycled materials. Australians dispose of about 2.7

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Gaute Juliussen, CEO and Founder of Toraphene, commented: “Amidst a climate crisis, plastic waste is known to be a huge, global problem and many plastic alternatives now exist, so why don’t we see them everywhere?”. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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James Militzer

MARCH 2, 2023

Most of these cases can be taught within multiple business disciplines such as leadership, strategic management, supply chains and marketing, to name a few — making them useful tools not only for emerging entrepreneurs themselves, but for the educators who are training them. housing market typically works.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

Companies in these sectors may face increasing costs of capital as investors and financial institutions begin implementing their own net zero commitments, as well as demand pressures as companies begin scrutinizing their supply chains as efforts to address Scope 3 emissions ramp up.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The group says it “has demonstrated how the voluntary approach can deliver measurable outcomes, with the Courtauld Commitment reducing the UK’s food waste by 27% since its launch 17 years ago.” The agreement is a catalyst for change around reductions in GHGs and food waste, and is delivering sustainable water management.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Reducing waste in the manufacturing process. This includes your retail space, manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, and even your supply chain partners. An impact screening focuses on how each area of your business and your supply chain are impacting people and the planet. Reducing the carbon footprint.

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Capaccio Environmental

MAY 3, 2022

Greenwashing” is the act of misleading or falsely claiming that a company’s products or processes are more “environmentally friendly” or “sustainable” than they really are. Some of the common areas that companies will track KPIs are for usage and emissions of water, energy, materials, waste, and supply chains.

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Sphera

MAY 13, 2022

It is perceived as a source of waste and a symbol of the modern throw-away society. Thanks to increasingly strict environmental legislation, national bans on the importation of plastic waste and public pressure, packaging manufacturers, consumer goods producers and retailers are being forced to rethink their approach to packaging.?.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2023

To provide a complete disclosure, the company will likely leverage existing communication channels or create new channels that allow for open discussions on operational efficiencies, supply chain risks, shifts in customer preferences, and potential disruptions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Against a backdrop of inflation, supply chain issues and a rising cost-of-living, UK leaders are steadfast in their environmental commitments as they view sustainability action as a means to offset economic uncertainty.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

Several of the sessions served as crash courses on technology poised to become indispensable to the consumer goods industry, including AI tools that can help model the effects of crises on the supply chain; data tools that deliver real-time consumer insights; and diverse applications of Web 3 and the Metaverse.

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B the Change

JANUARY 29, 2023

So it’s baked into our DNA: We set out from the start to have a total 360 approach to sustainability without any greenwashing. For a new company, finding and maintaining good and ethical supply chains and accountability is difficult and takes enormous amounts of resources — especially if it’s across borders. How do you do it?

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Sustainability Matters

APRIL 23, 2024

Despite many Australian organisations committing resolutely to new ESG standards, they face hurdles in achieving their objectives due to data challenges within the supply chain, which can inadvertently lead to unintended greenwashing.

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

As we work toward waste-conscious packaging or distribution and shipping options reducing carbon footprints, businesses are also reducing landfill waste, energy consumption, and vehicle emissions. How far did it have to travel to get to me? Is the packaging minimal and recyclable? Who made this product, and are they paid properly?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

It has helped channel capital into projects including energy-efficient housing, sustainable waste management, train connections and bike lanes. “Our largest peers are not a third as large given the investments our fund has attracted.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This January marked the three-year anniversary of the Brumadinho Dam disaster in which 272 people lost their lives and millions of tonnes of toxic waste flooded local villages, becoming Brazil’s worst ever industrial disaster. For me to divest from any sector, I have to be clear that I am able to fulfil completely on the principle.”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2023

However, one of the greatest barriers to reaching ESG targets is measurability of progress.  Against growing pressure to cut carbon emissions, the temptation to greenwash away a problem is greater than ever. Take supply chains, for instance. The same level of accountability can also be applied to a waste chain.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When Coca Cola – the world’s biggest plastic polluter , was announced as one of the sponsors for COP27 this year – the world’s largest climate change conference, it sparked a wave of greenwashing accusations. Here in the UK, there has been some progress on plastic waste reduction policies.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Offsetting also helps our customers reduce their carbon footprints for water services, gets our carbon reduction strategy and targets in place, and starts reducing our own operational emissions which in turn influences our supply chain. If you aren’t prepared to make mistakes, you won’t learn. People always want choice.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The consultation paper also proposes requirements for the top 250 companies to also make ESG disclosures relating to their supply chains on a ‘comply or explain’ basis. For fiscal year 2024-2025, assurance will not be mandatory, but will be on a ‘comply or explain’ basis for fiscal year 2025-2026.

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3BL Media

JULY 23, 2024

Transcript [00:00:00] Dominique: Reducing plastic waste, shopping locally, using public transportation, even investing in more efficient and renewable technology in our homes. If what you're trying to do really is greenwashing, I'm sorry, you've left no room open for dialogue and for us, our faith as a society in corporate action.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Also referred to as value chain emissions, Scope 3 covers indirect emissions – so everything that happens in all aspects of a supply chain. From ensuring you gain buy-in internally, to getting commitments from everyone in the external value chain to help meet your goals, meeting Scope 3 commitments is a group effort.

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Just Capital

APRIL 14, 2023

Nike’s “ Move to Zero” goal to become both zero carbon and zero waste across its business is having concrete operational benefits. The Washington Post covers the FTC’s expected crackdown on ‘greenwashing.’ The Financial Times writes about the growing movement and the strong opposition it still faces. The featured companies emit 49.4%

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 17, 2022

The Global Reporting Initiative assesses company activities and supply chains for a wide range of ESG impacts: Environmental: climate change, resource depletion, waste and pollution, deforestation. The following list includes key ESG standard-setting frameworks to track. GRI — Global Reporting Initiative.

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Sense and Sustainability

AUGUST 4, 2020

They would fertilize their soils using organic matter, wastes, ceramics and charcoal to form what is known nowadays as terra preta. They perform these and other ecosystem services “in exchange” for the organic matter they feed upon. Thousands of years ago, indigenous farmers in the Amazon seem to have understood this.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The issues are many, from the resources needed to grow cotton or produce synthetic fabrics, usually from petroleum feedstocks, to the waste that ends up in landfills, especially for inexpensive and trendy clothing items that often have a short useful life. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Teresa Parejo, Sustainability Director for Iberia who presented Iberia’s plan: “Fleet renovation, digitalization of on-board paper, and a zero cabin waste plan are some of the actions to incorporate the SDGs into the aviation sector.” Representing the aviation sector was Ms.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Net Zero Economy / Finance The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a new report that helps to define ‘greenwashing’ from the authority’s point of view. Meanwhile M&S, a leading supermarket chain in the UK, is removing more use-by dates from its products this month in a bid to fight food waste.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

There are accusations of greenwashing from one side, ‘wokeism’ from another, and a lingering question on everyone’s lips: is it making a difference? The same is true of a handful of other topics, like water, waste and counting staff numbers and totalling up salaries and taxes paid. First there was the boom then came the backlash.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Is 'net-zero' greenwash? Indeed, "net-zero" is the new "zero waste" — remember way back in 2019 when everyone was making that commitment? In addition to net-zero companies, there are also net-zero buildings , communities , products , farming , factories , supply-chains , even ships. There’s also net-zero water and waste.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 22, 2025

For example, a leading ecommerce marketplace has an entire website showcasing its progress toward sustainability goals such as packaging waste reduction, renewable energy generation, and more sustainable products. One major beauty retailer responded to its young workforces requests to reduce in-store waste.

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