Results for Circular Economy
Daily Media Briefing
October 14, 2020- Ikea unveils national buy-back scheme for used furniture in drive to become 'fully circular'
- Top asset owners commit to big carbon emissions cuts
- UK urged to force firms to publish plans for closing gender and ethnicity pay gap
- Tesco links £2.5bn loan to key emissions, energy and food waste targets
- Australia's Great Barrier Reef might lose ability to recover from warming
Daily Media Briefing
September 30, 2020- Blackrock's circular economy fund has raised $900m in its first year
- Two-fifths of plants at risk of extinction, says report
- World Bank announces $12 billion plan for poor countries to buy Covid vaccines
- Half of rubber trade agrees new policies to cut deforestation and human rights abuses from supply chains
- Tesco to increase sales of meat alternatives by 300% to reduce environmental impact of products
Daily Briefing
August 12, 2020- Sustainable investment funds just surpassed $1 trillion for the first time on record
- New rules may force online political adverts in UK to carry labels
- Apple imported clothes from Xinjiang firm facing US forced labour sanctions
- New platform to help corporates forge circular economy partnerships
- Brand leaders have a duty to pay a premium for sustainability to improve industry, says L'Oréal supply chain chief
Daily Media Briefing
June 19, 2020- Companies give employees the day off to celebrate Juneteenth
- Colgate reviews China's Darlie brand amid Black Lives Matter movement
- Businesses urged to give refugees more jobs in Covid-19 era
- Farfetch's new tool to highlight the environmental impact of clothing
- Lyft pledges to shift its two million drivers to electric vehicles by 2030
Daily Media Briefing
June 05, 2020- Bank of America pledges $1 billion over 4 years to fight racial inequality
- World’s largest rooftop farm to open in Paris
- Ribena launches hunt for climate resilient blackcurrants
- Swiss to vote on companies' global liability for human rights abuses
- Indonesian activists condemn jailing of indigenous farmer in conflict with paper giant APP
Daily Media Briefing
June 03, 2020- Brands criticised for 'hypocritical' support for the Black Lives Matter movement
- Pandora vows to ditch mined silver and gold for its jewellery by 2025
- Open for feedback: Social transformation draft methodology and proposed indicators
- Google in $5bn lawsuit for tracking in 'private' mode
- Pristine rainforest the size of football pitch destroyed every six seconds last year
Daily Media Breifing
June 02, 2020- Facebook employees hold virtual walkout over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to act against Trump
- UPS offers month-long carbon offset incentive for deliveries
- BT and The Climate Group launch bid to end sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2030
- Ikea launches circular economy strategic partnership with Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Plunging cost of wind and solar marks turning point in energy transition
Daily Media Briefing
May 29, 2020- Zalando and Sustainable Apparel Coalition issue sustainable metrics for brands and retailers
- Textile Exchange launches Material Change Insights Report
- Chevron shareholders approve calls for more transparency on climate lobbying
- New date agreed for COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow
- Studies add to alarm over deforestation in Brazil
Daily Media Briefing
May 22, 2020- Facebook expects half of employees to work remotely over next five to 10 years
- Lloyds investors rebel against bonus plan for top bosses
- Singapore postpones packaging reduction deadline for companies in light of Covid-19 disruption
- Leaked EU green recovery plan targets building efficiency, hydrogen, transport, and renewables
- Planning application for UK's first waste-to-jet fuel plant given green light
Daily Media Briefing
May 21, 2020- CDP: 24 per cent jump in corporates calling on suppliers to beef up green effort
- Female Fortune 500 CEOs reach an all-time high, but it's still a small percentage
- Study: Plastic recycling labelling ‘confusing and inconsistent’
- Hundreds of charities in UK added to waiting list for food redistribution
- Coronavirus fallout to slow global growth in renewable energy