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Swarovski, UCLA Shine Light on Water Protection, Education in New Documentary
A new film, WATERSCHOOL, takes viewers on a journey with several young female students who live along six of the world’s major rivers — the Amazon, Mississippi, Danube, Nile, Ganges and Yangtze — to shine a light on the importance of safeguardi... View More
Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge Seeks Ways to Use Voice to Make a Positive Impact
Amazon has launched a new challenge to reward developers of Alexa skills that have a positive impact on the environment, local communities and the world. ... View More
Trending: New Spins on Wood, Hemp, Coconut Recognized as Winning Natural Fibers
A process that turns wood pulp into yarn and a vegan wool alternative made from hemp and coconut fibers have respectively earned a spot in Fashion for Good’s Scaling Programme and a prize in the 2018 Biodesign Challenge. ... View More
Report: Schneider Electric, Vestas Leading Capital Goods Makers in Low-Carbon Revolution
Innovation in the capital goods sector is driving a low-carbon industrial revolution, according to a new report from CDP. Released today, Bridging low-carbon technologies finds that demand for transformative technologies such as electrification, digi... View More
U.S. Biggest Purchaser of Goods At Risk of Being Produced Through Forced Labor
According to a new report, one in every 800 people in the United States is working under forced labor conditions. The findings are part of the Global Slavery Index 2018, the world’s most comprehensive research on modern slavery, launched Thursday b... View More
New Methodologies Help Banking Industry Assess Risks, Opportunities of Climate Change
On Wednesday, 16 banks, the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and climate risk advisory firm Acclimatise published new methodologies that will help banks understand how the physical risks and opportunities of a changing climate might affect... View More
Liverpool Using Blockchain to Become First Climate-Positive City by End of 2020
The Liverpool City Council is committed to becoming the first climate-positive authority in the world by the end of 2018, through a groundbreaking partnership with the nonprofit Poseidon Foundation, in a bid to make Liverpool the world’s first clim... View More
Circulate Capital Launches to Invest in Solutions to Ocean Plastic Crisis
Circulate Capital, a new impact-focused investment management company, launched today in partnership with Closed Loop Partners, a firm that invests in companies, technology and recycling infrastructure to advance the circular economy; and Ocean Conse... View More
Latest Youth Solutions Report Showcases 50 Projects to Support SDGs
The second edition of the Youth Solutions Report, which identifies 50 youth-led projects that aim to solve the world’s toughest issues, was released Tuesday in New York during a launch event at the headquarters of the Sustainable Development Soluti... View More
McDonald's Joins Starbucks in Quest for Compostable Cup; Ireland Already Found One
The NextGen Cup Consortium and Challenge, convened by Closed Loop Partners, announced today that McDonald’s joins Starbucks as a founding member of the group, working to develop a global recyclable and/or compostable cup solution. This announcement... View More
New S&P Dow Jones Index Series First to Incorporate Future Carbon Price Risks
S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s leading index provider, today announced the launch of the S&P Carbon Price Risk Adjusted Index Series, which will measure the performance of companies in each respective underlying index with a weighting s... View More
New China-EU Agreement Paves Way for Global Adoption of Circular Economy
China and the European Union have jointly expressed their commitment to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Circular Economy at the 20th EU-China Summit taking place today and tomorrow in Beijing. Both governments stand to gain from aligning on pol... View More
Report: Slavery, Labor Abuses in SE Asian Supply Chains Set to Spiral in Age of Automation
Drastic job losses in South East Asia resulting from the onset of robot manufacturing are predicted to lead to a dramatic increase in slavery and labor abuses in global supply chains, unless governments take early measures to prevent automation threa... View More
Trending: Liquor Giants Serve Waste Reduction with a Twist in New Product, Campaign
“In 2016, Bacardi led the drinks industry with the first #NoStraws campaign focusing on eliminating single-use plastic straws from its cocktails,” explained Dune Ives, executive director of Lonely Whale, a non-profit dedicated to positively impac... View More
Danone, Mars, Nestlé, Unilever Join Forces to Improve U.S. Public Food Policy
Four of the nation’s largest food companies have launched the Sustainable Food Policy Alliance, a new organization focused on driving progress in public policies that shape what people eat and how it impacts their health, communities, and the plane... View More
Asda, Unilever, AstraZeneca Among Funders of New University of Cambridge SDG-Focused Fellowships
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has announced a major new partnership with leading companies today with the launch of The Prince of Wales Global Sustainability Fellowship Programme. Corporate and individual ... View More
Cities, Countries, Companies to Automakers: You Have the Keys to a Zero-Emissions Future
States, regions, cities and international business are uniting to use their purchasing and policy influence to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) around the world through a new Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Challenge, launched today. ... View More
Shell CEO ‘Welcomes’ Idea of Banning Petrol in UK Before 2040
Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, said he welcomed the idea of bringing forward the UK’s ban on new petrol and diesel car sales that is currently set for 2040. MPs, ... View More
Target, CVS, Tesco Among Orgs with Over $3.3T Spend Scaling Up Supply Chain Sustainability
115 organizations, representing over US$3.3 trillion of combined annual spend, are working to improve supply chain sustainability by requesting environmental data from more than 11,500 global suppliers. ... View More
The Last Straws? Starbucks Eliminating Them Globally, More Regional Bans
Following Vancouver’s approval of a strategic plan to achieve zero waste and phase out plastic straws and other select packaging, its neighbor to the south is also taking action. Seattle recently became the first major U.S. ... View More
