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How High-Integrity Credit Projects Deliver Impacts Beyond Carbon
How can buyers and sellers of carbon credits ensure the projects they choose will have the desired impacts and climate outcomes? ... View More
Sustainable Sailing Puts Its Sail-Recycling Process to Sweet, New Use
The UK startup is partnering with the University of Edinburgh to use waste sails in the creation of high-value chemicals used in everyday products — even, potentially, food ingredients. ... View More
First, Food – Now, Fashion and Furniture: More Innovations in Circular Materials
These two women-owned startups are repurposing waste streams from food manufacturing into striking interior finishes and “leather” handbags and accessories. ... View More
Fashion Revolution to Brands: ‘Put Your Money Where Your Emissions Are’
New Fashion Revolution report calls out the world’s largest fashion brands for not investing in a fair transition away from fossil fuels or in protecting workers from extreme-weather events and other threats to their livelihoods. ... View More
Scientists Discover New Plants That Could Lead to Climate-Proof Chocolate
Discovery of three new species in the Western Amazon could pave way for more climate-proof cacao production — and shows how many treasures are still yet to be discovered in Earth's biodiversity. ... View More
Tech Partnerships Helping Walmart Optimize Food Value Chain
The retail giant recently launched two partnerships aimed at recycling food waste and enabling better-informed food-sourcing decisions. ... View More
Reuse and Circularity Pilots Taking Off Inside Major Sports, Entertainment Venues
Beverage giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are among companies working with partners to swap out single-use cups and trays for reusable serveware systems at big events. ... View More
Will New Ecodesign Regulation Make Sustainable Products the Norm for EU Consumers?
Brands, take heed: This legislation will apply to all products that are sold in Europe, not just manufactured in the region — impacting manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers and sellers all around the world. ... View More
Antonioli: Carbon Markets Must Center on Long-Term, Sustainable Development Impacts
Former Verra CEO David Antonioli believes the carbon market is missing a golden opportunity to design and deploy carbon finance as a powerful transitional tool toward a zero-carbon economy. He outlines his vision in a new, six-part report. ... View More
EcoSet: Redirecting Film-Industry Waste for Creative Reuse
The film industry is one of the largest producers of unnecessary waste in the world. Avoiding or repurposing that waste has become its own industry within entertainment, and circular service providers such as EcoSet are leading the charge. ... View More
Engineering the Future of Circular Packaging in the US Heartland
A collaboration between Dow and New Energy Blue aims to make a new biomass refinery in Mason City, Iowa a linchpin in a massive, circular shift for the plastics industry. ... View More
US’ Outdated Composting Infrastructure Offers Golden Investment Opportunity
New report from the Composting Consortium provides landscape analysis of existing compost infrastructure, markets and business models; and blended-finance opportunities to scale organics circularity. ... View More
Study Explores Marketing Tactics for Lower-Impact Menstrual Products
Disposable menstrual products are a less-talked-about but major contributor to global plastic pollution. A recent study investigated consumer preferences and devised guidelines to bolster adoption of more sustainable options in different markets. ... View More
Report: 6 Strategies for Building Nature-Positive, Circular Economy for Europe
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation outlines six circular strategies to transform Europe’s built environment that will boost economic activity, increase climate resilience, and make cities more vibrant places to live and work. ... View More
What Consumer Data Can Tell Us About the Future of Sustainability
While the values-action gap still exists, consumer research helps organizations understand their audience motivations and who is buying their product, or expand their audiences to growing numbers of sustainability-conscious shoppers. ... View More
Foodtech Innovators Spill the Beans on Climate-Proofing Coffee
These two startups are fundamentally changing how coffee is produced — by eliminating the need for beans altogether, and repurposing food waste along the way. ... View More
This Nepalese B Corp Illustrates a Holistic Model for Sustainable Development
Shah Hemp Innoventures turns typically wasted ‘weeds’ into a resource for literally building a more sustainable, equitable economy. ... View More
‘Greenhushing’ Diminishing Returns for 58% of US’s 100 Biggest Companies
New report asserts that businesses that aren't transparent on their ESG progress, for fear of greenwashing, are missing opportunities for investment and gaining credibility with consumers. ... View More
Companies Mitigating Climate Change Reduce Their Cost of Capital
New research shows that when companies disclose their environmental impact — and take meaningful action to mitigate it — they earn investor trust. ... View More
Starbucks, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Lead Brands Launching First City-Wide Reuse System
The collaboration, led by the NextGen Consortium, makes reusable cups the default option in over 30 national and local restaurants across the City of Petaluma, California. ... View More
