Month: September 2022

EcoVadis Inaugural Carbon Maturity Report: More Than 15,000 Carbon Scorecards Issued in First Year Following Carbon Action Module Launch

Stuart Mitchell

EcoVadis, the leading provider of globally trusted business sustainability ratings, has released its Carbon Maturity Report exploring the state of climate action in the EcoVadis Network. The report – which outlines the EcoVadis Network Impact Model for supply chain decarbonization – shows that progress is being made on key early decarbonization phases among the companies EcoVadis has rated since launching its Carbon Action Module (CAM) in the spring of 2021. Over the last year, EcoVadis has issued over 15,000 Carbon Scorecards, which are created within the EcoVadis Sustainability assessment process…

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Boeing Becomes Founding Member of UK Innovation Hub To Drive Sustainable Aviation Fuels Development

Stuart Mitchell

Recently at the Farnborough International Airshow, Boeing became the founding member of the University of Sheffield’s Energy Innovation Centre (EIC), leading the way for the company to help develop and bring SAF to the market. The EIC includes the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Innovation Centre (SAF-IC), a first-of-its-kind facility in the UK that will help test and certify new sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and the Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC), which will contain pilot-scale production facilities suitable for investigating different methods of producing SAF. SAF offers the most immediate and greatest…

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Organic Dairy Farming Can Store Carbon and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, According to New Study in Journal of Cleaner Production

Stuart Mitchell

A new study in the August issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production reveals that it is possible for farms to sequester carbon and reduce their overall greenhouse gas emissions. A University of Wisconsin Madison research group unveiled a dairy lifecycle assessment conducted on Organic Valley farms that shows small organic dairy farms, which focus on grazing and organic production techniques, are low greenhouse gas champions.  The peer reviewed study uses a breakthrough methodology that includes accounting for the carbon sequestration benefit of grazed pastures. Led by Dr. Horacio Aguirre-Villegas,…

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M&S Teams Up With Agrisound To Boost Pollinator Activity On British Farms

Stuart Mitchell

M&S have announced a three-year collaboration with agri-tech start up AgriSound, designed to help farmers better manage pollinators and increase crop yields.  The collaboration will see two M&S Select Farms, Plumford in Kent and G’s Growers in Cambridgeshire, install in-field sensors for three years, allowing them to track the number of pollinators visiting their farm in real-time and target specific interventions for improving numbers.  AgriSound are biodiversity experts, based in York, that have developed specialist listening devices, which combine acoustic technology and environmental sensors to monitor the density of key…

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Ben & Jerry’s joins forces with tony’s chocolonely to make chocolate 100% slave free

Stuart Mitchell

Two companies known for their passion for social justice have fallen bar over spoon for each other into a Chocolate Love A-Fair. Ben & Jerry’s has joined Tony’s Chocolonely’s mission to end modern slavery and child labour in the chocolate industry. It’s a match made in changemaker heaven. To celebrate their commitment, the ice cream and chocolate makers’ Flavour Gurus got busy making delicious desserts inspired by each other. Introducing, Chocolatey Love A-Fair, a new flavour from Ben & Jerry’s based on Tony’s popular milk caramel sea salt bar; and Tony’s…

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