Ben & Jerry’s Project Mootopia will pilot cutting dairy farm emissions

By using regenerative agricultural practices to tackle cow burps and managing manure, Ben & Jerry’s is aiming to cut greenhouse gases from its dairy farm suppliers to half industry standards by 2024. Unilever’s €1 billion Climate & Nature Fund is helping our brands take meaningful and decisive action to tackle climate change and restore and protect nature. Project Mootopia, a pilot project from Ben & Jerry’s, is supported by the fund. Because dairy ingredients account for more than 50% of Ben & Jerry’s total greenhouse gas emissions, the brand is…

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Ceres launches new effort to slash emissions and improve transparency across the food sector, sets out benchmark

A new effort launched today to engage 50 of the highest-emitting publicly-traded food and agriculture companies in North America, with the goal of accelerating the transition to a net zero emissions future in the global food and agriculture sector.  Coordinated by the sustainability nonprofit Ceres, Food Emissions 50 will involve institutional investors from around the world who are committed to driving the transparent corporate climate action necessary to achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.  As part of today’s…

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CAP – Misleading by emissions? Environmental claims and the CAP Code

The ASA/CAP have released a post called: Misleading by emissions? Environmental claims and the CAP Code. I have enclosed the text of the link below, but please have a look at the ASA/CAP site as there are lots of things of interest to anyone with an interest in Ethical Marketing. The 5th of June 2021 is World Environment Day, a UN initiative to raise awareness and encourage action to protect the environment.  The environment is currently high on the ASA’s agenda, with our Climate Change and the Environment project taking…

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Frito-Lay Cuts Absolute Fleet Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) in Half, Reduces Diesel Usage by 78 Percent at California Production Site

Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, Inc. announced significant progress in the transformation of its Modesto, Calif. manufacturing site. The project is part of PepsiCo’s broader sustainability strategy, which includes changes across its end-to-end value chain to build a more sustainable food system and reduce its environmental impact. Since the first-of-its-kind project for PepsiCo and Frito-Lay was announced in October 2019, the 500,000-square-foot Modesto facility has further evolved into an industry-leading showcase for environmentally sustainable manufacturing, warehousing and distribution. The implementation of ZE and NZE technologies over the past year has…

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Grosvenor launches £90m programme to reduce emissions from historic portfolio

Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has announced a £90m programme to retrofit and future-proof its historic London estate as a key component of its 2030 commitment to becoming a net zero carbon business. They are one of 25 leading UK property companies that made a Climate Change Commitment in 2019 to publish and report annually against a net zero carbon pathway. Recently launched, the Pathway focusses on their biggest levers for change: Reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from our historic London estate in Mayfair and Belgravia by over 70%…

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