Tag: Consumer Goods Forum

Report Shows Challenges of 2022 Didn’t Slow Action on Global Issues by Consumer Goods Companies

Stuart Mitchell

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), the only CEO-led organisation that brings together both manufacturers and retailers globally, today publishes its second annual report, ‘Collaborating for Action – 2022 Review’. The report highlights the achievements the sector has made in 2022 including further progress on tackling deforestation, global plastic waste and working to end forced labour. Created together with KPMG, the annual report reviewed the collective work across the CGF’s eight Coalitions of Action: Food Waste, Forest Positive, Global Food Safety Initiative, Collaboration for Healthier Lives, Human Rights – Working to…

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The Consumer Goods Forum Launches the “Net Zero Playbook For Consumer Industries”, in Collaboration With Accenture

Stuart Mitchell

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) has launched the Net Zero Playbook for Consumer Industries in collaboration with its members, Accenture and the Race to Zero. It has been launched at COP27, where a key theme is making good on the commitments made at COP26 and demonstrating action. The Playbook contains practical solutions to help consumer-facing companies address complex emission challenges and serves as a consumer industry executive’s guide for developing and operationalising decarbonisation roadmaps. It outlines the opportunities that exist for companies as they navigate their path to net zero…

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CGF Publishes New Report on Understanding the Most Cost-Effective Way to Fight Climate Change

Stuart Mitchell

 The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) is pleased to announce the launch of “Understanding the Most Cost-Effective Way to Fight Climate Change”. Developed in partnership with shecco, the booklet explores the topic of refrigerant systems and their impact, as well as the main challenges in implementing hydrofluorocarbon-free cooling. The booklet also highlights the benefits of using such technologies and features case studies from companies who have already made the switch to natural refrigerants. Refrigerants continue to cause planetary trouble, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have become the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions…

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Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

Stuart Mitchell

“Sell by,” “Use by,” “Display until,” “Best before,” what do they all mean? Consumers around the world navigate a range of date labels on food products, and the resulting confusion costs families up to $29 billion annually in the United States alone. The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) – a network of 400 of the biggest consumer goods companies across 70 countries – along with Champions 12.3 has approved a Call to Action to standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020. The CGF Board of Directors unanimously adopted the Call to…

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