Month: June 2021

JBS Makes Global Commitment to Achieve Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2040

Stuart Mitchell

JBS, has announced a commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040. The commitment spans the company’s global operations, including Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (Nasdaq: PPC), as well as its diverse value chain of agricultural producer partners, suppliers and customers in their efforts to reduce emissions across the value chain. JBS is the first major company in its sector to set a net-zero target. The ambition reflects the company’s goal to meet the health and nutritional needs of the growing global population in a sustainable manner that preserves the…

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Novartis commits to addressing racial disparities in breast cancer screening, treatment, and care

Stuart Mitchell

Novartis has announced the launch of More Than Just Words, a multiyear commitment to promote health equity in breast cancer care, where there is significant unmet need. Black women under the age of 35 are diagnosed with breast cancer at twice the rate of white women the same age. During 2020, breast cancer became the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, while at the same time, breast cancer screenings overall have decreased drastically. With COVID-19 and breast cancer disproportionately impacting women of color and drops in screenings threatening timely diagnoses and…

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Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership launches new Business Transformation Group

Stuart Mitchell

The Centre for Business Transformation has launched the Business Transformation Group – a collaborative leadership group of forward-looking international companies with a strong commitment to sustainability that kicked-off in early 2021 along with partners IKEA (INGKA), CRODA, Dentsu and Majid Al Futtaim. The Group’s mission, under CISL’s guidance, is to help companies set a truly sustainable business path across key areas such as nature, climate, circularity and inequality, and embark on the organisational transformation required to deliver this vision for the business and its stakeholders. The Group is founded on…

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Clear Channel teams up with Cephas Williams and Mind on ‘The World I Want To See’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

One year on from the murder of George Floyd, eight Black boys write an open letter to their older selves detailing the world they want to see. Clear Channel has teamed up with Cephas Williams and Mind in Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow (HFEH) one year on from the murder of George Floyd to promote a message of hope from Black boys in the community. ‘The World I Want to See’ is a collection of letters from and portraits of Black boys in London published one year on from the…

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Waitrose rolls out trial to help customers dispense of hard to recycle flexible plastic packaging in-store.

Stuart Mitchell

Waitrose has announced plans to roll out a new trial that will allow its customers to return hard to recycle flexible plastics at their local store. The scheme, which goes live this week at 37 branches serviced by Waitrose’s Leyland Distribution Centre in the North of England, will permit all clean flexible plastics that can be crunched up, stretched, squashed or unfurled to be deposited in-store for an initial period of 12 weeks. Drop off points that have historically been used to recycle plastic bags will be retrofitted to allow…

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