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Sky to Boost 5 More Behavior-Changing Startups with £2M Ad Push
Now in its third consecutive year, the Sky Zero Footprint Fund fosters the power of TV advertising to tackle climate change through campaigns that drive sustainable behavior change. ... View More
Carbon Trust Teams Up with Tech Giants to Tackle Climate Impact of Connected Devices
The group will develop the industry’s first specification for measuring, accounting for and decarbonizing the emissions associated with consumer use of connected devices. ... View More
Net Zero in Practice: How Brands Can Turn Targets Into Action
The scope and scale of the challenge presented by climate change is dawning on consumers, putting mounting pressure on brands to act in their wider interests — and fast. Going net zero offers a real solution, but how do businesses get there? A new ... View More
Trending: The North Face, Tetra Pak, Seventh Gen Continue Chipping Away at Plastic Waste
Awareness of our plastic waste problem continues to grow, prompting campaigns and corporate action around the world. ... View More
Nat Geo's 'Planet or Plastic?' Initiative Latest Attempt to Save the Oceans from Plastic
As the amount of single-use plastic in the world's oceans continues to grow, National Geographic is announcing a new, global commitment to tackle this pressing problem. On Wednesday, the media giant launched Planet or Plastic?, a multiyear initiative... View More
Trending: £25M Investment Scheme, Climate-Positive Sack Will Reduce Packaging Waste
Plastics and packaging are ubiquitous and leading to major problems both for waste management and ocean pollution. While many companies are committing to reduce or eliminate single-use plastics, there is still a lot of work to do on all fronts. ... View More
$94B Needed to Realize RE100 Renewable Energy Targets by 2030
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has released a new report that reveals that signatories of the RE100 initiative have a long way to go to achieve their 100 percent renewable energy targets by 2030. For the initiative’s 128 members to meet their goal, t... View More
BBC Employs Alberta Scheme to Track Carbon Footprint, Reduce Environmental Impacts
While the fashion, food, auto and energy industries are held to high sustainability standards, television tends to fly under the radar. But environmental sustainability is an important issue to networks and producers across the globe. Sky was the fir... View More
Sky's #OceanRescue Campaign Aiming to Put an End to Ocean Plastic Pollution
Marine plastics pose a serious problem for both marine ecosystems and human health. In fact, with between 4.8 million and 12.7 million tons of plastic ending up in the world’s oceans every year, it could be considered one of the most dangerous envi... View More
Brands Must Scale Up Diversity – and Fast – If They Want to Remain Relevant
“Women challenge the status quo because we never are it.”Addressing a (thankfully) diverse audience of sustainability professionals in London, UK, last month at an event hosted by The Crowd, Cindy Gallop -– a global activist for the gender equa... View More
Sedex Brings Public and Private Sectors Together to Discuss Paths to Sustainable Supply Chains
On a crisp Wednesday morning last week, the 2015 Sedex Global Responsible Sourcing Conference kicked off in London’s Parliament Square, barely a stone’s throw from the seat of British government. The event saw 500 delegates from brands including ... View More
New Tools Helping Companies Holistically Reduce Impacts of TV Productions
Anybody that has seen an episode of Ross Kemp’s “Extreme World" might forgive the production crew if environmental footprint reduction wasn’t top of their agenda when making the show. As the former soap star dodges bullets among far-right ... View More
7 Tips for Creating Social Value by Empowering Young People
As we prepare to unveil the Top 25 Under 25 year-olds working in sustainable business as part of the 2degrees New Generation initiative later this year, the latest Sustainable Brands London event offered the perfect opportunity to discuss how a numbe... View More
#SB14London Mnemonic #2: 10 Insights from the Final Morning
And the third morning of SB London picked up where the second one ended. ... View More
#SB14London: How Can We Create Social Value by Empowering Young People?
Martin Chilcott, CEO at 2degrees, led this Tuesday afternoon panel on how to engage young people in order to create social value.As Chilcott stated, future generations represent a key asset for society, and companies will need to engage them in order... View More
