Tag: Canopy

Global brands drive momentum on transition to forest-friendly supply chains

Stuart Mitchell

During last month’s COP27, leading companies including, H&M, Inditex, Stella McCartney, Ben & Jerry’s, HH Global, and Kering announced a collective commitment to purchase over half a million tonnes of low-carbon, low-footprint alternative fibers for fashion textiles and paper packaging. It is a move that will support the protection of the world’s vital forests and ecosystems and lower forest degradation pressures from the fashion and packaging supply chains. Spearheaded by environmental nonprofit Canopy, this commitment towards more sustainable, lower-carbon alternatives — known as Next Generation Solutions — reflects a building…

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Veuve Clicquot partners with Canopy to lead sustainable luxury with virgin forest-free packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Veuve Clicquot has launched an industry first, a low-carbon, low-impact, virgin tree-free, luxury champagne box with global environmental NGO Canopy at LuxePack in Monaco. The new Ecoyellow gift box, made from 50% recycled paper and 50% hemp, is part of the brand’s work to spur packaging innovation, and is the latest advance in their commitment to Canopy’s Pack4Good initiative. Pack4Good is a solutions-driven initiative helping the world’s largest fashion, food and beverage, and beauty and care brands eliminate Ancient and Endangered Forests from their packaging supply chains enroute to building…

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Ben & Jerry’s Joins Initiative to Ensure Packaging Doesn’t Come at the Expense of World’s Vital Forests

Stuart Mitchell

On World Rainforest Day, illus-tree-ous ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s has made an unbe-LEAF-able announcement. Ben & Jerry’s has become the first food brand in the Pack4Good initiative — committing to ensure its paper packaging does not come at the expense of the world’s most vital forest ecosystems. Instead, the company will prioritize lower impact solutions focused on reducing waste and employing Next Generation innovation in its packaging. The world’s forests are being logged at an alarming rate — three billion trees a year go into the paper packaging…

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Largest Database for Recycled and Next Gen Paper and Packaging Launched

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s largest compilation of recycled and NextGen paper and packaging options available to brands and companies — the EcoPaper Database — has just been updated and expanded. This integral resource comes at a vital time as the impact of paper packaging on the world’s forests, climate, and biodiversity continues to grow. The EcoPaper Database (EPD), created by international environmental non-profit Canopy, is a listing of over 1,100 paper and paper packaging options available to help businesses reduce their impact on Ancient and Endangered Forests. The much-anticipated update of the…

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New Year Brings New Commitments To Protect World’s Forests

Stuart Mitchell

35 brands, three producers, and two innovators from around the globe, including online fashion and lifestyle platform Zalando, fashion brands Mango, ba&sh, and Ardene, and luxury shoe brand Nicholas Kirkwood have committed to revolutionizing their packaging supply chains to protect vital forests all over the planet. The brands are joining environmental organization Canopy’s Pack4Good initiative. Pack4Good works with global brands and innovators to address the massive and growing forest footprint of paper packaging. Every year three billion trees, an area of forest about the size of Germany, are cut down…

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