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Corporate sustainability leadership during a pandemic

GreenBiz

The 2020 Sustainability Leaders , a GlobeScan- SustainAbility survey of experts worldwide, reveals which companies are perceived to be leaders on sustainability during this challenging time by sustainability professionals representing business, government, NGOs and academia. The time to act is now. Consumer Trends.

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Sustainable shopping is healthy, even amid a pandemic

GreenBiz

Sustainable shopping is healthy, even amid a pandemic. As sustainability professionals, we’ve been talking for years about how consumers are increasingly influenced by values and sustainability. We search the data for proof points that people would prefer to buy from a more sustainable company. Diane Osgood.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

In 2019, 690 million people or 8.9 What concerns you about the current global food system when it comes to environmental sustainability and human health? Companies have targets that push them to fix their own supply chain, but this can lead to simply shifting the problem to another company’s supply chain.

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First stop: Climate commitments. Next stop: Climate action?

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In a separate announcement, Walmart joined forces with Schneider Electric to "educate Walmart suppliers about renewable energy" and accelerate deployment with the aim of removing a gigaton of carbon from its supply chain (aka Scope 3 emissions). . Google committed to becoming powered by clean energy — in real time — by 2030. .

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An Interview with Brian Iselin, Founder and CEO of the Non-Profit slavefreetrade

Sense and Sustainability

Simultaneously, the platform initiates a vertical process, supply chain discovery and mapping. This maps entire supply chains. This is reproduced down the entire supply chain, tier by tier, automatically. And they often lack time or resources to explore the supply chain of every bidder.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

Remember 2019? German sportswear company adidas committed to using only recycled polyester across its supply chain by 2024. And pressing companies to eliminate deforestation in their supply chains has long been an activist focus. It was a very long year. But it was much, much longer than that. Neither do I.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. COVID-19 will definitely change the world, and I truly hope that this will bring a new priority for sustainability topics. Holly Beale (2019). Program Manager, Datacenter Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft; Seattle.