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Progress on methane and forests at COP, but much heavy lifting needed to put 1.5C in reach

Angeli Mehta, (Nov 5, 2021)

There will need to be big breakthroughs on transport and heavy industry emissions next week for the climate talks in Glasgow to be deemed a success, reports Angeli Mehta

Chad Holliday: ‘Hard-to-abate industries have to pull their own weight on tackling climate change’

Oliver Balch, (Oct 5, 2021)

Oliver Balch interviews the new chair of The Mission Possible Partnership, which is helping seven of the world’s most carbon-intensive industries to achieve a 1.5C future

Brand Watch: Google's greening of its search engine to unleash power of conscious consumers

Oliver Balch, (Oct 5, 2021)

In his monthly column, Oliver Balch reports on new initiatives to reveal data on the carbon footprint of products, how food brands are embracing systems change, and the impetus for greater transparency in supply chains

‘Averting climate disaster means going big on food systems transformation’

Ruth Richardson, (Sep 22, 2021)

Comment: Ruth Richardson and Peter Bakker hope this week’s UN Food Systems Summit will deliver concrete results towards make the food and agriculture sector more equitable and nature-positive

Paving the road to net zero with bricks made from plastic waste

Mark Hillsdon, (Sep 12, 2021)

Mark Hillsdon reports on how venture capital firm 2150 is among those backing technologies that seek to cut construction waste and plastic pollution while reducing embodied CO2 emissions in the built environment

Brand Watch: Facebook and PepsiCo commit to ‘water-positivity’ as climate crisis hits home

Oliver Balch, (Sep 7, 2021)

Oliver Balch reports on how recent natural disasters have prodded brands to target water security as part of their climate response, and how the pandemic is deepening the pay gap

Can Olam help turn Big Ag from climate villain into sustainability hero?

Oliver Balch, (Jun 29, 2021)

Oliver Balch interviews chief sustainability officer Christopher Stewart to find out how the commodity giant aims to take leadership in re-imagining the global food system

Five reasons why business should care about COP26

Steve Varley, (Jun 8, 2021)

Comment: As world leaders gather in Cornwall for the G7, Steve Varley of EY argues that with climate change both the biggest business risk and commercial opportunity of all time, there a strong commercial imperative to engage with this year’s summit in Glasgow

Joe Biden’s plan to pay America’s farmers to become eco-warriors

Mark Hillsdon, (May 30, 2021)

Mark Hillsdon reports on how the U.S. president's proposed Growing Climate Solutions Act seeks to turn the industrialised agriculture of the country’s breadbasket from a biodiversity hazard into a CO2 sink through regenerative agriculture

Faber's fate shows high price of going against the herd

Terry Slavin, (Mar 31, 2021)

Reuters Events Sustainable Business's editor in chief Terry Slavin picks out some of the highlights of the free-to-download March issue of The Sustainable Business Review

Brand Watch: WBCSD warns members it’s time to get serious as it raises climate action bar

Oliver Balch, (Mar 30, 2021)

Oliver Balch analyses the latest sustainability news, from the companies responding to the business group’s Vision 2050 refresh to growing action to address water risk

Shaping up for the net-zero race this month in The Ethical Corporation

Terry Slavin, (Dec 10, 2020)

At the recent Climate Ambition Summit governments made new commitments to cut CO2 emissions by 2030. In our December issue we report on what the private sector is doing to make its climate action both ambitious and credible. And we launch a new publication, the Sustainable Business Review

New drive to police ‘wild west’ of net-zero targets ahead of COP26

Mike Scott, (Dec 9, 2020)

With corporate climate neutrality claims derided by some as the ‘new world peace’, Mike Scott reports on efforts to call out greenwash and promote scientifically credible action

From 500 litres of water a day to 50: P&G heads up partnership to stave off next Day Zero

Angeli Mehta, (Nov 10, 2020)

Angel Mehta talks to P&G's Frantz Beznik about how the 50L Home Coalition brings together companies, regulators and governments to think big on tackling the urban water crisis

‘If we don’t radically change how we do business in the next decade we will run out of time’

Peter Bakker, (Oct 30, 2020)

Comment: WBCSD’s Peter Bakker explains why the sustainable business organisation is raising the bar for ambition and action on climate change, nature loss and social equity, and giving its members two years to get into line

For sustainable, read resilient as companies strengthen relationships with suppliers

Oliver Balch, (Oct 5, 2020)

Covid-19 and advances in digitisation have accelerated the move towards more planet- and people-friendly procurement practices that will outlive the immediate crisis, reports Oliver Balch

Claire O'Neill: ‘Companies are more ambitious on climate change than many governments’

Terry Slavin, (Sep 14, 2020)

In an interview with Terry Slavin, the high-profile former UK energy minister explains why nature-based solutions are high on her agenda as WBCSD’s new director for energy and climate, and the importance of the UK remaining aligned with the EU on climate post-Brexit

‘As we return to work, it’s time to get real about stakeholder capitalism post Covid-19’

Peter Bakker, (Sep 3, 2020)

Comment: WBCSD president Peter Bakker explains what’s at the top of his agenda during the critically important final quarter of 2020

Auto sector begins to map more circular road forward

Mike Scott, (Jun 2, 2020)

Renault and Land Rover are among those adopting more resource-efficient manufacturing processes in an industry under pressure to cut its environmental footprint. Mike Scott reports

‘We must open up data to fight the threat to food security from Covid-19’

Dr Suchith Anand, (May 2, 2020)

Comment: Dr Suchith Anand of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition calls for a rejection of protectionism and democratisation of information to address hunger and poverty in vulnerable agriculture-dependent countries

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