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Unilever sets $1.2B sales target for meat and dairy alternatives

GreenBiz

Unilever also announced plans to bring forward its goal of halving food waste from its global operations by five years to 2025, a move commended by Liz Goodwin, senior fellow and director of food loss and waste at the World Resources Institute. Sponsored Article. Pull Quote. Food Systems. Alternative Protein. Courtesy of.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

Time isn't on the side of those who hope to prevent the projection by the Pew Charitable Trusts that plastic waste flows into the oceans will double in the next 20 years. Already, if all the world's plastic waste could be shaped into a plastic shopping bag, all of Earth would fit inside of it, noted Morgan Stanley CMO and CSO Audrey Choi. "I

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How Consumer Goods Companies Can Turn the Tide on Plastic Waste

3BL Media

So, how can consumer goods companies contribute to global goals around reducing plastic waste and pollution? Progress toward the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment , signed by over 500 organizations, for example, has been a mixed bag. trillion in the global economy, and reducing plastic waste is a crucial focus.

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Evolving EVOLVE 2030: Circularity as a New Evaluation Criterion

3BL Media

The first version of EVOLVE 2030 already considered circularity as part of the SDG contribution scoring, for example reducing resource consumption and waste generation are captured in SDG Targets 12.2 Common to all three is the concept of a waste hierarchy that considers the environmental costs of those options.

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Why Investing in Waste Matters

Chris Hall

Waste treatment and recycling is one of the themes driving GIB AM’s multi-thematic portfolio, according to Global Equities Portfolio Manager Stefanie Mollin. Waste management is a big – and growing – business, as the global scale of solid waste generation reaches vast proportions. billion tonnes.

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The Blue Wonder

3BL Media

3 Pressures on the ocean, including plastic waste, acidification, tourism, pollution from shipping, and overfishing are all increasing. 10 These ecosystems are worth US$ 375 billion per year to the global economy, from industries and services including fishing, food, pharmaceuticals and tourism.

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HSBC Launches Global Circular Economy Fund

ESG Today

HSBC Asset Management announced today the launch of the HSBC GIF Global Equity Circular Economy fund, investing in companies that are enabling the transition to a circular global economy.