New “SDG Essentials for Business” resource supports companies’ efforts to raise awareness and understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals and empower their staff to drive meaningful contributions to the SDGs. Geneva, 26 February 2020:  The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has launched a new online learning platform to support businesses in raising awareness […]

For two days of inspirational plenaries, interactive breakouts and a solutions-focused showcase. We’ll be offering special training on how the Circular Transition Indicators can help companies accelerate their circular transition in a consistent way.   Zdroj: www.wbcsd.org

JPMorgan Chase has expanded its sustainability commitment with a new announcement that plan to end Arctic oil financing. In 2017, JPMorgan Chase made two sustainability commitments: facilitate $200 billion in clean financing by 2025 and source renewable energy for 100 percent of its global power needs by 2020. Both goals are expected to be reached […]

The Court of Appeal has judged plans for a third runway at Heathrow illegal on climate grounds. After years of campaigning, plans for a third runway at Heathrow have been ruled illegal by the Court of Appeal because ministers did not adequately consider the government’s climate change commitments. In May 2019, the High Court ruled […]

Ahead of the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2020 taking place in Paris on the 10 March, we caught up with Willem Keogh, Head of ESG and Thematic Index Solutions at Qontigo, to discuss the use of ESG data as a tool to encourage innovation. Ahead of the Sustainable Investment Forum Europe 2020 taking place in […]

Marks and Spencer announce it will be expanding the ‘Fill Your Own’ sustainability trial after increase of sales on refillable groceries. M&S Food’s first Fill Your Own trial was launched in mid-December offering over 44 lines of packaging-free cupboard essentials including popular cereals, pasta, rice, lentils, confectionery, coffee, dried fruits and nuts. After rolling out a […]

New data from Carbon Brief has found that UK carbon emissions have dropped by 29 per cent in the last decade. In 2019, Carbon Brief found that the UK’s CO2 emissions fell by 2.9%, bringing the total reduction to 29% over the past decade since 2010, even as the economy grew by a fifth. Coal […]

MINI has teamed up with OVO Energy to encourage customers to go green. MINI has announced a partnership with OVO Energy, providing an offer of 5,000 free miles to new MINI Electric owners in the UK. Customers of the brand’s first fully electric vehicle, who choose to make a simple switch from their current home […]

RBS has announced they will be ending coal, oil and gas funding to support the climate emergency. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced they will be withdrawing support from non-net zero aligned activity in the coal, oil and gas sectors, if they do not have credible transition plans in line with the Paris […]

A new report has found that UK’s power emissions are falling faster than anywhere else in the world. According to Drax Electric Insight Report, the UK’s move towards renewable energy generation has helped drive a faster rate of decarbonisation over the last decade than anywhere else in the world. The report found that Britain experienced […]