Collaboration & Co-Creation

The work of organizations joining forces in win-win, pre-competitive ways to bring about massive, impactful shifts away from business as usual

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Asia Pulp & Paper Signs Onto Multiparty Collaboration for Clean Water, Education in Indonesia
Asia Pulp & Paper Signs Onto Multiparty Collaboration for Clean Water, Education in Indonesia
Published on October 21, 2016
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Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) is reinforcing its commitment towards achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through participation in “The Pari Island Project,” a new multiparty collaboration aimed at improving the availabili... View More

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Successful Sustainable Development: Maintaining the Right Distance Between Companies, Communities
Successful Sustainable Development: Maintaining the Right Distance Between Companies, Communities
Published on October 18, 2016
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The third Setouchi International Art Festival is currently taking place across 12 islands and two coastal ports in the Seto Naikai, or Inland Sea of Japan. The Sea boasts over 700 islands in total. The islands, which never underwent rapid industrial ... View More

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NGOs, Food and Beverage Giants Join Forces to Protect California’s Water Future
NGOs, Food and Beverage Giants Join Forces to Protect California’s Water Future
Published on October 14, 2016
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As California enters its sixth year of record-breaking drought, 20 leading organizations this week announced the formation of the California Water Action Collaborative (CWAC), their collaborative effort to support critical projects designed to protec... View More

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Understanding and Building Transformative Partnerships
Understanding and Building Transformative Partnerships
Published on October 6, 2016
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Steve Jennings, the Founding Partner, Chief Innovation Officer and Futurist at Better Ventures opened up Wednesday afternoon's panel discussion entitled Understanding and Developing the Capacity for Transformative Relationships by asking the panellis... View More

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How Ajinomoto Is Working with Stakeholders to Create Sustainable Social Impacts
How Ajinomoto Is Working with Stakeholders to Create Sustainable Social Impacts
Published on September 28, 2016
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In 1908, Dr. Kikunae Ikeda changed the culinary world forever when he discovered umami as the fifth basic taste (along with sweet, salty, sour and bitter). Aspiring to foster healthy lifestyles and “create good, affordable seasonings and turn simpl... View More

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Business Students to Assess Corporate Action on the Global Goals Through New Digital Platform
Business Students to Assess Corporate Action on the Global Goals Through New Digital Platform
Published on September 26, 2016
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The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has announced a new digital ‘Global Solutions Platform’ to engage business students to support the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or Global Goals). The platform consists of two par... View More

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For World's Most Purposeful Brands, Collaboration Is Key for Putting Purpose Into Practice
For World's Most Purposeful Brands, Collaboration Is Key for Putting Purpose Into Practice
Published on September 23, 2016
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British creative consultancy Radley Yeldar (RY) has launched the 2016 Fit for Purpose index, ranking the world’s most socially, environmentally and economically purposeful companies. The overall trend that surfaced in this year’s index was collab... View More

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Brewers, NGOs, Governments Worldwide Joining Forces Around Global Beer Responsibility Day
Brewers, NGOs, Governments Worldwide Joining Forces Around Global Beer Responsibility Day
Published on September 16, 2016
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Today, brewers, governments NGOs and retailers in 76 countries around the world partnered on the second annual Global Beer Responsibility Day in an effort to promote responsible consumption of beer. ... View More

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SDG 2: New Agri-Business Alliance Aims to Tackle Global Food Security by 2030
SDG 2: New Agri-Business Alliance Aims to Tackle Global Food Security by 2030
Published on September 15, 2016
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Today, 37 leading agri-business companies have today launched the Global Agri-Business Alliance (GAA) in Singapore. Their aim is to collectively tackle the major environmental and social challenges facing agricultural supply chains and rural communit... View More

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Ag, Food Giants Partner with NGOs to Support Midwest Farmers, Strengthen Conservation
Ag, Food Giants Partner with NGOs to Support Midwest Farmers, Strengthen Conservation
Published on September 6, 2016
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For the first time ever, leading food and agriculture supply chain companies and conservation organizations have formed an “end-to-end” partnership to support farmers in the improvement of soil health and water quality. ... View More

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Making More Than Money: How Ford Is Collaborating to Create Environmental Innovation
Making More Than Money: How Ford Is Collaborating to Create Environmental Innovation
Published on September 4, 2016
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News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, has produced a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and gather insights from a new wave of corporate citizen... View More

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Building a Resilient Landscape Through Global Collaboration
Building a Resilient Landscape Through Global Collaboration
Published on August 29, 2016
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While the challenges of climate change are undeniably global, politics and measures to actually solve them remain largely local. Last year’s Paris Agreement was a landmark moment for this issue. Now comes the difficult task of putting words and tre... View More

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Forests for All Forever: Driving Consumer Demand for Sustainability Through Meaningful Marketing
Forests for All Forever: Driving Consumer Demand for Sustainability Through Meaningful Marketing
Published on August 24, 2016
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At SB’16 Cape Town in May, Tetra Pak, South African Airways (SAA) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) came together to share their views on the importance of building market demand from environmentally conscious consumers to move sustainable c... View More

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Shared Value: Tough But Timely Medicine
Shared Value: Tough But Timely Medicine
Published on August 12, 2016
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When in hot water, take a bath. To many westerners, this Chinese saying is nonsensical. Yet it accords with a fundamental African way of thinking: when faced with something profoundly troubling, the solution lies in a deeper experience of that very s... View More

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Sustainable Apparel Coalition Opens Access to Higg Index Tools to SME Brands, Retailers
Sustainable Apparel Coalition Opens Access to Higg Index Tools to SME Brands, Retailers
Published on August 10, 2016
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The industry group Sustainable Apparel Coalition has opened use of its Higg Index suite of tools for measuring and evaluating supply chain impact to non-member small and medium-sized (SME) brands and retailers. SMEs may now take advantage of a specia... View More

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3 Lessons in Innovation Every Organization Can Learn From (RED)
3 Lessons in Innovation Every Organization Can Learn From (RED)
Published on August 1, 2016
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When (Red) was founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver back in 2006, it was born out of necessity. The Global Fund — an organization dedicated to fighting diseases such as AIDS, TB, and malaria in the developing world — had launched in 2002, with a com... View More

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How Engaging Its Employees, Value Chain Is Carrying Sustainability Forward at Alaska Airlines
How Engaging Its Employees, Value Chain Is Carrying Sustainability Forward at Alaska Airlines
Published on July 25, 2016
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News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, is producing a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and gather insights from a new wave of corporate citizen... View More

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Neighbourly Helping Businesses Align Philanthropic Efforts with SDGs
Neighbourly Helping Businesses Align Philanthropic Efforts with SDGs
Published on July 20, 2016
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Companies including SABMiller, Dow, Novozymes, and many others have begun to align their corporate responsibility targets with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since the United Nations (UN) launched them in September. ... View More

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Accenture Leading Effort to Bring Renewable Energy to Off-Grid Communities in Africa
Accenture Leading Effort to Bring Renewable Energy to Off-Grid Communities in Africa
Published on July 20, 2016
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Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) is a consortium featuring Accenture, the University of Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) and The Rural Development Company, which have joined forces on a renewable energy initiative in Ugand... View More

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Ford, Jose Cuervo Explore the Only Scenario in Which Tequila, Cars Might Be a Good Mix
Ford, Jose Cuervo Explore the Only Scenario in Which Tequila, Cars Might Be a Good Mix
Published on July 19, 2016
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In the latest of a string of innovative partnerships in its quest for more sustainable materials (which so far have yielded CO2-based and tomato-based plastic, and guayule-based rubber, to name a few), Ford Motor Company and Jose Cuervo® are explori... View More

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