Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Waste management $20,010 4% 57% 95% 100% B- 54 64 Cisco Systems Inc San Jose, U.S. Last years leader, Australian waste management company Sims Ltd., both earned spots in the Global 100 ranking, as did telecommunications giants BCE Inc., The Corporate Knights ranking allocates spots by sectors to reflect the global economy.

Banking

3BL Media

JUNE 9, 2025

Recognizing the important role of air cargo in the global economy, FedEx is demonstrating how this industry can leverage available lower-emission solutions like SAF to reduce its environmental impact. Neste SAF is made from 100% renewable waste and residue raw materials, such as used cooking oil and animal fat waste.

Chief Sustainability Officer

Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

In its deep dive into the worlds most sustainable private- and public-sector companies, Corporate Knights revealed an undeniable fact: public-sector companies are doing essential work when it comes to moving the needle toward a greener global economy. reduction in emissions and the diversion of 67% of waste from landfills.

Net Zero

ESG Today

MAY 21, 2025

Recognizing the important role of air cargo in the global economy, FedEx is demonstrating how this industry can leverage available lower-emission solutions like SAF to reduce its environmental impact. We look forward to further strengthening our cooperation.

Chief Sustainability Officer

3BL Media

JUNE 11, 2025

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.

Shipping

ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2025

But the ramifications for the global economy are profound. Sea level rise is a global systemic risk that threatens to destabilise markets and the financial system as a whole. Choose energy-efficient appliances, reduce waste, and be mindful of water use. We can and should all do more. Individual choices matter.

Climate Change

ESG Today

JUNE 10, 2025

The AI Reckoning: Navigating Ethical Risks Artificial intelligence is evolving at an extraordinary pace, already transforming key sectors of the global economy. AI is also increasingly driving progress in sustainability, with leading companies using it to improve energy efficiency, cut waste, and streamline supply chains.

Supply Chain

McKinsey Sustainabilty

JULY 17, 2025

The familiar process of optimizing material usage, reducing waste, and controlling indirect spend  helps businesses reduce input costs while maintaining or improving output quality and environmental performance. Procter & Gamble, for instance, has leveraged advanced analytics to enhance supply chain efficiency and reduce waste.

Analytics

We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Companies poised to act early will find themselves at the forefront of the growth markets in the global economy. Further, more than 30 countries endorsed the COP29 Presidency’s Reducing Methane from Organic Waste Declaration. Methane reductions provide immediate climate benefits, helping to curb near-term warming.

Paris Agreement

Financial Times: Moral Money

JUNE 8, 2025

Last year, El Salvador refinanced $1bn of bonds in a debt-for-nature swap that is expected to raise $350mn for river conservation. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.

Shipping

Eco-Business

JUNE 18, 2025

Today, the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change threaten the global economy, with over half of the world’s GDP, some US$44 trillion, at risk. The loss of healthy ecosystems could cause a global GDP drop of US$2.7 Education 5. Gender equality 6. Economic growth 9. Infrastructure 10. It is living science.

Waste

Eco-Business

AUGUST 3, 2025

In an increasingly fragmented global economy, China continues to support the role of institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, while pushing for a shift in emphasis more aligned with Global South priorities. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Economic growth 9. Infrastructure 10.

Development

Eco-Business

JULY 22, 2025

trillion per year to the global economy. Female labour force participation amounts to just under 47 per cent globally, compared to 72 per cent for men. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Economic growth 9. Infrastructure 10. Image: Helena Pfisterer , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Unsplash. These problems are set to worsen.

Development

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Clean200 data show that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as all other revenues over the past five years.

Global Economy

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Although the global economy is increasingly wrapped in plastic, companies of all sizes are dramatically reducing their use of it.

Global Economy

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. Pull Quote.

Waste

GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

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

Waste

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

PARIS, November 16, 2023 /3BL/ - The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s Food Waste Coalition of Action has today released its first baseline report , presenting operational food surplus and waste aggregated data from sixteen of its retailer and manufacturer members. Total food waste across the cohort was 2.12 billion tonnes.

Waste

3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

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.

Waste

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Waste

3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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.

Chief Sustainability Officer

Financial Times: Moral Money

JULY 4, 2025

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Waste

3BL Media

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This includes waste reduction and the environmental impact of packaging, such as using recycled paper and cardboard. The 2023 edition of the Circularity Gap Report , an annual study of circularity adoption worldwide by Circle Economy, states that the global economy increasingly relies on materials from virgin sources.

Waste

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For 125 years, International Paper has been the catalyst in the global economy as the world’s leading producer of renewable packaging, pulp and other fiber-based products essential to everyday life.

Global Economy

ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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.

Global Economy

ESG Today

APRIL 20, 2023

Cate Lamb, Global Director for Water Security at CDP, said: “To be able to act effectively, companies must develop a robust understanding of how they contribute to the plastic pollution crisis and formulate equitable and just transition plans to address this.

CDP

Impact Alpha

MARCH 25, 2020

Long-term sustainable investment theses once relegated to the fringes of the capital markets are suddenly fundamental to the global economy. The post The Brief: Stronger case for sustainable investing, waste management in Singapore, backstopping gig workers, collective bonds, Japan’s Hiro exits appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Sustainable Investment

ESG Today

JUNE 26, 2024

Jimmy Samartzis, Chief Executive Officer of LanzaJet said: “We continue to build a leading team of investors along the SAF value chain who believe in LanzaJet’s ability to decarbonize aviation, which will both address climate change and enable the global economy.

Waste

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Trade is the global economy's lifeblood, with maritime transport at its core. But the carbon footprint of port operations and shipping is substantial, with shipping accounting for nearly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions , according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Shipping

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Change is hard, and we’re talking about massive changes, really reinventing and rebuilding our global economy over the coming decades,” said Makower. “We We have to transform that ‘take, make and waste’ linear supply chain and linear manufacturing processes to a much more circular one.

Climate Change

Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

recycling facilities and send more waste to landfills. Global recycling markets are easily prone to disruption, and developed countries have underinvested in recycling infrastructure for years. Waste Dive, the must-read daily bulletin of waste-related news, named the initiative “Disruptor of the Year.” Geyer et al.,

Waste

3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2023

Originally published in Sustainable Brands Whether making a widget or a culinary treat, prioritizing a circular life cycle for products helps keep them out of waste streams until they are negligible — or better yet, they never land there. But food waste has enormous benefits for the planet, if recycled correctly.

Waste

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Polling shows 85% of Americans view plastic waste as a serious problem and support bold and immediate action to address it. And on the world stage, negotiators from nearly every nation are currently working on a draft Global Treaty to End Plastic Pollution that aims to halt the flow of plastic into nature by 2040.

Waste

3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2024

Since its inception over a decade ago, the BNEF Pioneers program has witnessed significant advancements in the development and implementation of technologies and solutions aimed at decarbonizing the global economy. Challenge 3: Creating the next generation of net-zero fuels CoverCress Inc. CoverCress Inc.’s CoverCress Inc.’s

Net Zero

3BL Media

AUGUST 22, 2024

Morten Johansen, COO and executive vice president of DP World Americas, said: “With this transition, we are not only fostering a sustainable environment but also enhancing the operational competitiveness by lowering costs and waste.

Supply Chain

Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

Dr Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste at the World Resources Institute, outlines how to reduce food loss and waste at every stage of the supply chain and the benefits of doing so. At the same time, 1 in 10 people globally remain malnourished. What causes food loss and waste?

Waste

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Appointments of new COP26 President and Environment Secretary triggers renewed efforts to demonstrate the benefits of biogas for decarbonising the UK and global economies. The industry can also help reduce the carbon footprint of hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as heat, transport, waste management and agriculture.

COP26