Month: November 2024

ALDI launches Fairtrade cocoa project

Stuart Mitchell

ALDI proudly continues to support its long-term Fairtrade partner and cocoa cooperative ECAMOM driving impactful initiatives aimed at fostering women’s empowerment, tackle child labour, enhancing financial inclusion, and ensuring sustainable agricultural practices to support readiness for EUDR. In 2020, the ALDI SOUTH Group, Fairtrade, the chocolate manufacturer Storck and the cocoa cooperative ECAMOM in Côte d’Ivoire established a strategic working relationship which resulted in annual Impact Reports. Through these impact reports, ECAMOM collected data from its 3,800 cocoa farmers on how the Fairtrade premium, received for the cocoa sold to…

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The SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard revision expanded to refine approach to neutralization

Stuart Mitchell

The SBTi’s Corporate Net-Zero Standard provides the guidance and tools companies need to set science-based net-zero targets. Version 1 of the Standard was first published in 2021. It states that once companies have achieved their long-term emission reduction target, they must neutralize any residual emissions through permanent removal and storage of CO2 from the atmosphere. The SBTi is currently revising this flagship Standard and has today released an updated project terms of reference with minor adjustments, including the intention to refine the approach to neutralization. The SBTi intends to clarify…

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Danone And Prevented Ocean Plastic Partner To Open First Major Plastic Collection Centre In Borneo, Indonesia

Stuart Mitchell

Prevented Ocean Plastic™ Southeast Asia announces the opening of its new recycled plastic aggregation centre in Samarinda, in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The centre is opening in partnership with consumer goods company Danone, through its Indonesian bottled water brand AQUA, and is part of the wider efforts of the internationally recognised Prevented Ocean Plastic™ programme. AQUA funded the centre’s construction and will be a major customer for the recycled plastic processed there. According to the National Waste Management Information System (SIPSN) in 2022, the…

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Lack of investments in impact industry threatens progress on Sustainable Development Goals

Stuart Mitchell

For the fourth year in a row, venture capital (VC) investment into global impact startups is in decline. Impact startups haveraised $33B in 2024 so far, a projected 28% drop from the previous year. A much stronger drop than the general global VC capital decline of 4% during the same period. This alarming fact is the main takeaway from the State of Impact 2024 report, presented this week in The Hague at ImpactFest by ImpactCity, Dealroom, and Microsoft. This steady decline in impact investments is especially worrying since none of…

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The One Show 2025 Opens Call for Entries With Campaign by Cutwater

Stuart Mitchell

The One Club for Creativity announced the launch of The One Show 2025, supported by an engaging call for entries campaign by creative and media agency Cutwater. Entries to The One Show 2024 can be submitted now, with fees increasing after each deadline period.  Early entry deadline is December 13, 2024, with the regular deadline January 31, 2025.  The extended deadline is February 14, 2025, and final deadline February 28, 2025. The One Show 2025 Jury Presidents and full juries will be announced shortly, with early judging starting in January…

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