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Best Paw Forward: Turning Companywide Commitment into Purpose-Driven Performance
LEADERSHIP - While many companies now understand the value of dedicated ESG leadership, there remains no real playbook for how to get started. Here’s how ESG practitioners can standardize sustainability-forward operations and innovation across workstreams.
Content Creators Hold Back on Promoting Sustainability Amid Greenwashing Fears
MARKETING AND COMMS - Unilever study uncovers barriers influencers face around creating sustainability content. The company is partnering with climate-focused nonprofits and launching a Creator Council to help address these barriers.
Could AI Root Out the Greenwash Marring Sustainability Communications?
MARKETING AND COMMS - It's about to get more costly for companies that exaggerate environmental and social claims in their communications. But what if artificial intelligence could eradicate greenwash forever?
Tourism Shaped by 'Unseen' Communities Surfaces Unheard Stories, Infuses Capital Into Destinations
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Instead of the traditional approach of shielding tourists from places' 'messy' parts, more travel-focused social enterprises are working with marginalized communities to introduce tourists to their destination’s complex fabric.
Sky to Boost 5 More Behavior-Changing Startups with £2M Ad Push
MARKETING AND COMMS - 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.
The Stories We Tell to Tell Other Stories: Remember People in Sustainability Reporting
MARKETING AND COMMS - All this diligent measurement, often seen in hundreds of pages of meticulous reporting, removes sustainability from the realm of common interest. Sustainability is for everyone and should be understood by everyone; shared understanding is the first step for shared action.
We Can’t Let Vogue Words Hinder Climate Action
MARKETING AND COMMS - ‘Regenerative’ has become the latest trend — a label that’s stuck on anything as a way of making it sound positive and reassuring. To guarantee genuine progress, we need a universal set of principles underpinning regenerative economics and a standardised way of quantifying success.
FootPrint Coalition: Propelling Climate Tech to Create a World of ‘Radical Abundance’
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Robert Downey Jr's FootPrint Coalition is taking a three-pronged approach to boosting environmental science and technology — including a science engine that funds non-traditional innovators, a VC fund for scaling promising solutions, and a media platform that amplifies the innovations.
Organic-Materials Management: How Companies Can Make Better Choices
WASTE NOT - Helping people on the front lines of manufacturing and materials management understand company sustainability goalsm and providing the leadership support to contribute to achieving them, empowers them to take a more conscious approach to disposal.
7 Ways to Create Buzz Around Your Sustainability Work (No Greenwashing Required)
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Now’s the time to take all that effort and integrate it into fun engagement opportunities for both your workforce and your brand’s biggest fans. Here are our seven favorite ideas for doing just that.
Authentic Purpose: How Bruce Katz, Founder and CEO of Rockport Shoe Company, Ignited My Purpose Journey
WALKING THE TALK - I learned a tremendous amount about creating an authentic purpose from Rockport’s journey. Together, we created one of the first purpose-driven companies. Thank you, Bruce, for that opportunity.
Cannes Lions Was a Climate Kindergarten; Time to Mature the Conversation
MARKETING AND COMMS - This year's awards recognized a historic number of climate-related campaigns; but as an industry, we continue to talk in circles.
Study: Billions in Brand Value at Risk If Sustainability Perceptions, Performance Are Unaligned
MARKETING AND COMMS - New research quantifies the financial value of sustainability perceptions for hundreds of the world’s biggest brands — and the substantial risks of not living up to them.
Outvertising to Brands: Stand Your Ground This Pride Month
WALKING THE TALK - As the advocacy group asserts: ‘This is a time that calls for commitment and courage. Your action can be made in the sound knowledge that you have the majority behind you.'
‘Secret Agents of Change’ to Take Over Cannes Lions to Root Out Greenwashing
MARKETING AND COMMS - Creatives for Climate’s ‘secret agents of change’ will be prowling the festival calling on individuals, agencies and brands to tackle greenwashing at the source.
The Dos and Don’ts of Successfully Engaging the Masses
MARKETING AND COMMS - Day one of SB’s Brand-Led Culture Change event was loaded with insights from brand leaders and influencers on the ever-growing world of impactful brand sustainability communication.
Regeneration, Reinvention and Revamping Retail: Finding the Sweet Spots to Drive Culture Change
MARKETING AND COMMS - Opening keynotes at Brand-Led Culture Change featured insights from unconventional brand partnerships and keys to helping people and brands alike move beyond fear and embrace the changes we need to create a flourishing future for all.
Nurturing Mental Health in a Climate-Changing World: Another Critical Challenge to Face Together
MARKETING AND COMMS - As with other forms of anxiety, climate anxiety must be navigated with great care; and it is essential that the younger generation have allies around them when facing such an enormous challenge as climate change.
Balancing Optimism, Practicality to Drive Architects and Designers Toward a Sustainable Future
MARKETING AND COMMS - Shaw spoke with 'Metropolis' Editor-in-Chief Avinash Rajagopal about how to best tackle the complexity of sustainability, and how the design industry is adopting a more interconnected perspective on the subject.
Oatly Challenges Big Dairy to Climate Footprint Showdown
MARKETING AND COMMS - Oatly is offering free ad space to a big dairy brand that shares the same impact data that Oatly did to receive its climate certification.
