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Co-op is first British retailer to pledge support for landmark UN climate change campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Co-op has been unveiled as the first British retailer to become a signatory of the UN’s ‘Our Only Future’ campaign at its Climate Action Summit in New York. The breakthrough initiative calls upon global businesses to make critical contributions to help cap global temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The move follows Co-op’s announcement earlier this year, that it has committed to further reductions in its Green House Gas emissions of 50% by 2025, having already halved its GHG emissions in the ten years from 2006 and in the…

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Co-op urges councils to bin delay to home food waste collections

Stuart Mitchell

The Co-op has urged English local authorities to speed up the rollout of food waste collections from homes as figures reveal approximately 1,000 tonnes a day ends up in landfill when it could be composted or used to create energy and help cut greenhouse gases. Food waste rots and produces methane, which is considered a damaging greenhouse gas, 23 times worse than carbon dioxide. The ethical retailer is campaigning on the issue as it believes a large number of the 1.75 billion single-use plastic bags in circulation could also be…

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Green is the default option for Co-op pension scheme

Stuart Mitchell

The Co-op pension fund is investing approximately £300m into companies that score highly for sustainability and with an emphasis on mitigating climate change and / or managing their own carbon footprint. The trustees of Pace, the Co-op’s £11bn pension scheme, which comprises both Defined Benefit (DB) and Defined Contribution (DC) elements, have chosen the LGIM Future World Multi-Asset as the default fund for the DC scheme. This means approximately £290m out of Co-op employees’ £315m defined contribution assets will be invested in companies and bonds that score heavily when it…

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Co-op joins Hey Girls and Big Issue Invest Power Up programme in the fight against period poverty

Stuart Mitchell

The period poverty-battling Hey Girls took another giant leap forward as its products hit the shelves of the community retailer, Co-op. With a £50,000 investment from Big Issue Invest, Hey Girls Day Time and Overnight Sani pads and Menstrual Cups can be found in just under 200 Co-op food stores, marking the launch of the Big Issue Invest Power Up programme. Founded by Celia Hodson with the help of her two daughters, Kate and Becky, Hey Girls sells a full range of Period Products on a ‘buy one give one’…

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Co-op and locality commit to protect and preserve community spaces across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Co-op and Locality launch their Endangered Spaces campaign to protect, support and improve 2,000 at-risk community spaces by 2022 and are calling on the British public to help identify spaces that are in need of support by using #SaveOurSpaces. Research from Co-op and Locality identified a link between improved wellbeing and areas where community spaces such as cafes, community centres and playgrounds are easy to access, whilst the data also indicated that in areas where community spaces decrease, this contributes to the pride of a community going down. Despite these…

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