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.
BUSINESS CASE -
Nearly three-quarters of organisations surveyed (72 percent) mention the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their annual corporate or sustainability reports — an increase of 10 percent on last year, according to a new study by PwC. But concrete measures and integration remain elusive for many as organisations struggle to identify actions beyond business-as-usual targets.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
This week at the COP24 climate summit in Katowice, Poland, the discussion about how to implement the directives of the Paris Agreement is in full swing.
LEADERSHIP -
This post has been translated from Japanese. Read the original interview here.
PRESS RELEASE -
IT-company SAP counts on gamification to make employees, customers and partners more familiar with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through its new “Wheel of Purpose”. Gamification means applying game-typical elements to a context that has little to do with games to raise motivation and joy for educational content.
PRESS RELEASE -
Millions of young people around the world know Bear Grylls as a Global adventurer, TV host and best-selling author with a passion for Scouting. Now, as the new Chief Ambassador for the entire global Scout Movement, Bear is getting behind an unprecedented mobilisation of 50 million Scouts to improve the sustainability of our planet.