Hugo Boss Sets Sustainable Material Targets, Emphasizes Circular Fashion

The Hugo Boss Group is developing sustainable sourcing strategies for its most important materials based on natural capital valuations, according to the global apparel company’s latest sustainability report. This month Hugo Boss published its fifth sustainability report. For the first time, it contained the non-financial report required by CSR-RUG, the European CSR Directive Implementation Act….

World’s Biggest Retail Brands Back Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative

Several of the world’s biggest retailers and food companies backed a new initiative from the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) to improve global supply chains, boosting sustainable sourcing and streamlining benchmarking. Kellogg Company, Nestlé, and Walmart are among the companies supporting the forum’s Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI), Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Kieran Guilbert reported. “From chocolate…

7 easy steps for telling your sustainability story

What makes a sustainability story effective? I can tell you it’s not impressive shots of melting glaciers, or, on the other hand, depressing stats about them. What we’ve found to be crucial for an effective story is authenticity: staying true to who a brand is, what problems actually need to be solved and what actually…

P&G Smashes 2020 Goals, Raises the Bar with ‘Ambition 2030’

The Procter & Gamble Company today announced it has achieved many of its 2020 environmental sustainability goals, has plans in place to meet the rest and has established new, broad-reaching goals for 2030. With “Ambition 2030,” P&G aims to enable and inspire positive impact on the environment and society while creating value for the Company…

Why Sustainability Is the Future of the Chemical Industry

By 2020, the market for “green” chemistry is expected to reach $100 billion globally, with North America seeing an increase from $3 billion to over $20 billion during the same period. This growth, essential to the future of our planet, is a sign that the industry is engaged in much-needed change. Today, 8.3 percent of all…

5 steps to turn your public policy team into a sustainability ally

In the past several years, publicly traded companies increasingly have taken very public positions on sustainability issues. One of the most prominent examples of massive action has been in the climate space, where the We Mean Business coalition mobilized in the run-up to the Paris Agreement in 2015, and where we’ve since seen hundreds of…

Sürdürülebilir Markalar(Sustainable Brands) 2018 için geri sayım başladı: Değişimin liderleri ‘iyi yaşamı’ tanımlıyor

Global Sustainable Brands ağının İstanbul buluşması olan Sustainable Brands 2018 Istanbul için geri sayım başladı. Sustainable Brands- Sürdürülebilir Markalar ağı, dünyanın en büyük küresel markalar ağı olarak tüm dünyada başlattığı küresel diyalog kapsamında bu yıl ‘İyi Yaşamı Yeniden Tanımlamak’ teması ile yaşama dokunan tüm sektörleri buluşturuyor. 18-19 Nisan’da Fairmont Quasar İstanbul’da gerçekleştirilecek olan konferansa katılan şirketler, dünyada…

A New Age of Corporate Responsibility is Upon Us

Only a quarter into 2018 and it’s already been an incredible year for corporate responsibility across many fronts. Protests, boycotts and calls-to-action from the grassroots to the C-Suite level indicate that a new playing field is being built: In the workplace: Equal pay and human rights protections are being vehemently fought for across industries and…

Genuine transparency is critical for sustainable growth.

How corporate greenwashing holds everyone back The corporation is not exactly enjoying a surge of popularity right now. Rising inequality, tax dodging, slavery in supply chains, environmental damage, excessive CEO pay – this recipe makes for  a pungent soup of popular, or indeed, populist, discontent with the business world. Many companies are trying to do…