Tag: Canopy

World Nature Conservation Day Video Campaign Calls for Shift to Sustainable Packaging to Protect World’s Vital Forests

Stuart Mitchell

In anticipation of World Nature Conservation Day, Canopy, a solutions-driven environmental non-profit, launched a powerful new video to spotlight the severe environmental impact of paper packaging on the world’s most climate and biodiversity critical forests. World Nature Conservation Day, celebrated globally on July 28th, is dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of preserving and protecting the natural world. As the global demand for paper packaging soars, this timely video aims to highlight the alarming annual loss of 3.1 billion trees for paper packaging, equating to two soccer pitches of…

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Fashion and Lifestyle Giant Inditex (Zara) Joins Canopy’s Pack4Good Initiative to Keep Vital Forests Out of Paper Packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Inditex, the parent company of fashion brand Zara, and six other brands such as Berksha and Massimo Dutti, is joining solutions-driven non-profit Canopy’s Pack4Good campaign. Through Pack4Good, partners focus on sustainable alternatives to logging Ancient and Endangered Forests, including recycled pulp and paper, Next Generations Solutions, and FSC Certification. Inditex’s decade-long CanopyStyle commitment to eliminate the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in their textiles has now expanded to ensure these vital forests are not ending up in their paper packaging. The fashion sector is a major consumer of paper…

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At last months Earth Day, fashion and lifestyle brands and innovators unite to protect forests

Stuart Mitchell

In celebration of Earth Day, 15 companies have committed to end sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests in their textile and packaging supply chains, demonstrating their dedication to people and the planet. This commitment is part of the CanopyStyle and Pack4Good initiatives from solutions-driven environmental not-for-profit Canopy. Forward-thinking fashion and lifestyle brands in today’s announcement include John Lewis & Partners, Kering, Groupe Beaumanoir, Zadig & Voltaire, C&A, PANGAIA, City Threads, 2WO+1NE=2, Zeus + Dione, and House of Hackney.  Every year, 3.4 billion trees are cut down to make man-made cellulosic…

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Chinese Fashion Brands Herald the Year of the Wood Dragon by Committing to Protect Forests

Stuart Mitchell

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, three leading Chinese fashion companies, representing eight brands, have partnered with Canopy to keep climate- and biodiversity-critical forests out of their viscose and paper packaging supply chains. They are also now prioritizing circular, lower-impact NextGen alternatives. The announcement, which comes on the heels of the Lunar New Year, marks the first cluster of China-head-quartered brands to join CanopyStyle and Pack4Good, the fast-moving supply chain transformation initiatives of solutions-driven environmental nonprofit Canopy.  The brands pledging to protect Ancient and Endangered Forests today are multi-brand fashion…

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Bedding, Bike, Beauty Brands and More Commit to Ancient and Endangered Forests Protection

Stuart Mitchell

Twelve brands and innovators from across the retail spectrum have acted to address the growing climate and biodiversity crises by committing to keep Ancient and Endangered Forests out of the paper packaging and Man-made Cellulosic Fibre (MMCF) supply chains. The commitments are part of solutions-driven non-profit Canopy’s Pack4Good and CanopyStyle initiatives which currently represent over 403 and 547 brand partners respectively. Together the initiatives are shifting supply chains away from vital forests to low-impact, circular Next Gen Solutions. “At Cheekbone, it is our mandate to develop sustainable colour cosmetics with…

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