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Hayley Baines-Buffery, (Nov 14, 2018)
Hayley Baines-Buffery of Bioregional explains why the British Retail Consortium’s Better Retail, Better World initiative won’t bring the systems-level change required
Oliver Balch, (Nov 14, 2018)
Oliver Balch talks to the former McKinsey executive and co-founder of Systemiq about his big tent approach to building coalitions to tackle the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges
Angeli Mehta, (Aug 22, 2018)
Angeli Mehta reports on the Hydrogen Council’s ambitious roadmap to power 15 million cars and 500,000 trucks by 2030
David Grayson, (Jul 12, 2018)
David Grayson of Cranfield University distils the lessons of his latest book on the future of business leadership, and explains why the SDGs should force companies to rethink their business models
Oliver Balch, (Jan 31, 2018)
Oliver Balch rounds up the main messages from four days in the Swiss alps and hopes initiatives such as science-based targets, RE100, and new circular economy platforms will be kept front of mind
Oliver Balch, (Jan 25, 2018)
Big brands announce slew of recycling targets at WEF; growing gender pay gap; colleges falling short on sustainability teaching, SDG reporting grows
Martin Wright, (Jan 16, 2018)
The fourth industrial revolution will create lots of new jobs, but the retraining challenge for governments and companies will be immense
Terry Slavin, (Jan 2, 2018)
The Danish brewer’s sustainability chief Simon Hoffmeyer Boas tells Terry Slavin why collaboration is key to achieving its new strategy of achieving zero CO2 emissions, water waste and accidents by 2030
Mark Jolly, (Dec 13, 2017)
Companies replace IT equipment every four to five years, a waste of critical raw materials with huge environmental and social costs, argues Cranfield University professor Mark Jolley. With refurbished computers now nearly as high-performing as new, there needs to be an end to the make-use-dispose culture
Maxine Perella, (Dec 12, 2017)
Maxine Perella reports on how brands like Timberland, HP, Dell and P&G led the way by incorporating waste in new products and packaging
Claire Manuel, (Dec 1, 2017)
The packaging giant has adopted the GRI framework for its latest sustainability report, aligning performance to how it is addressing nine of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. But slow progress on its goal of doubling recycling rates by 2020 has prompted it to adopt new metrics
Angeli Mehta, (Oct 23, 2017)
Procter & Gamble is the latest brand to use ocean plastics in its packaging in a bid to boost home recycling rates
Angeli Mehta, (Oct 20, 2017)
Shocking images of marine life choking on plastic waste are finally moving companies to innovate on more sustainable packaging solutions. But it will take more than new technologies to kick a decades-old global addiction to cheap single-use plastic
Anonymous, (Oct 12, 2017)
In this guest blog, Karen Deignan of Net-Works interviews Frédérique Rathle to find out how Danone Water France worked with start-up Lemon Tri to create Lemonaide, which employs previously long-term unemployed to increase low recovery rates of PET bottles
Liam Dowd, (Sep 14, 2017)
As part of our management spotlight series our managing director Liam Dowd talks with Louise Koch, corporate sustainability lead, EMEA at Dell, on packaging, partnerships and future opportunities
Terry Slavin, (Sep 8, 2017)
In this guest blog, Karen Deignan interviews Miriam Turner, formerly of Interface, and Dr Nick Hill of the Zoological Society of London, to find out how they worked together to create Net-Works in 2012
Terry Slavin, (Aug 17, 2017)
This month's magazine reports on the state of sustainable business in France, looking at how the country is taking leadership on issues from climate to human rights, and how the new Macron government looks set to lift that ambition even further
Rebecca Ley, (Jul 13, 2017)
The drinks company is to boost recycled content of its bottles to 50% in Great Britain and trial a deposit-return scheme
EC Newsdesk, (Apr 28, 2017)
London's circular economy, Ford's hybrid vans, AkzoNobel helps megacities, DanoneWave becomes public benefit corporation, Triodos launches sustainable current account, Olam reduces carbon
Terry Slavin, (Apr 27, 2017)
As manager of one of Europe’s largest recycled paper mills, Jo Cox is turning his nearly zero waste Netherlands facility into the linchpin of a bio-based industrial economy