FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
Backed by John Hancock, COIN offers customers eight Impact Areas — including Better Health, Clean Water, Gender Equality and Reducing Waste — to invest in, with as little as $50.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
“Be authentic. You may have lost it for whatever reason: acquisition, merger, leadership changes, a value prop has evolved … but never forget where you came from.” — Alicia Tillman, SAP
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION -
Global transportation study assesses trends and challenges in public
transportation and parking, in the face of population growth and urban migration patterns.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
New Fairtrade Foundation campaign calls on the UK government and companies to end ‘shameful’ exploitation of cocoa farmers by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
WASTE NOT -
Through its proprietary technology, the company transforms organic, high-fiber food by-product streams into nutritious raw ingredients.
BUSINESS CASE -
New research finds rather compelling business case for restaurants to reduce the amount of food they throw away.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
The Clif Ag Fund will help increase the economic resilience of organic farmers
in Clif’s supply chain — including lower energy costs from day one.
MARKETING AND COMMS -
Nat Geo, P&G, Global Citizen launch storytelling partnership, documentary series to drive action around global challenges connected to extreme poverty
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
Companies increasingly recognize the importance to their bottom line of a
comprehensive sustainability strategy, which includes reporting.
COLLABORATION -
Collaboration will allow companies to gain data-backed insight into worker treatment in their supply chains.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
Now, under SD VISta, projects seeking funding must demonstrate, to the satisfaction of a third-party assessor, that they advance the SDGs.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
Over 80 investors warn that “animal agriculture is the world’s highest-emitting sector without a low-carbon plan.”
SUPPLY CHAIN -
Hidden killers in food production are making healthy eating impossible for people around the world, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
As part of our CSR strategy, we strategically aligned our programming based on three Sustainable Development Goals.
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION -
With the 2019 Tech for a Better World honorees, CES makes the statement that technology should positively impact humanity and the natural world.
MARKETING AND COMMS -
As we wrap up work for the year and prepare for 2019, we reflected back on all that occurred this year within our niche realm of sustainability communications — and when looking back, it was apparent that 2018 was the year of brands taking stands.
WALKING THE TALK -
To bring companies closer to young people and to enable this proximity to drive enhanced brand innovation capacity — in essence, this is the ambition of the Millennials Lab, created in the Rio 2015 edition of Sustainable Brands, and which is now preparing to scale up, reaching other states in Brazil in 2019.