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Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil

GreenBiz

Secrets for circular supply chain partnerships from Interface and Aquafil. They've co-launched pilot projects that have reshaped their supply chains, including the Net Works program, which pays fishers in the Philippines and Cameroon for turning in castoff nets used to create new nylon. Elsa Wenzel.

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Fashion Sector Gathers To Find Common Ground on Sustainability Issues

3BL Media

We have a responsibility to protect and uplift all those across our supply chain and operations.”. For example, we don’t want to design a regenerative agriculture strategy without having farmers at the table with us. In 2010, Walmart and Patagonia identified this as a serious problem. This is their livelihoods.”.

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Unilever Sets New Goals to Cut Value Chain Emissions by 2030

ESG Today

To date, the company said that it has reduced operational emissions by 74% from a 2015 baseline, and the emissions intensity of products by 21% compared to 2010.

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Hard truths from a decade of investing in regional food systems

GreenBiz

Price pressures continue to challenge the viability of decentralized food systems and communities of color continue to be underserved — as farmers, food chain workers, supply chain entrepreneurs and consumers. With those assets in hand, we can realize the vision of a regenerative food system that serves everyone.

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New Research Finds Scaling Sustainable Agriculture Requires Blended Solutions

3BL Media

As the ‘new normal’ of a global pandemic and heightened weather, supply chain and market extremes continues, farmers still feel as alone as they did in 2020 in absorbing the shock of these changes,” said Amy Skoczlas Cole, executive vice president of Trust In Food.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. Plus, the touted sustainability benefits to deriving seafood-like ingredients from plants include reducing the reliance on open-sea fishing and fish farming, not to mention sidestepping the labor abuses found in seafood supply chains.