Tag: sustainability

Hershey Announces Cocoa For Good, The Company’s Half-billion Dollar Sustainable Cocoa Strategy

Stuart Mitchell

The Hershey Company has announced Cocoa For Good, its holistic  cocoa sustainability strategy. The comprehensive strategy addresses the most pressing issues facing cocoa-growing communities: poverty, poor nutrition, at-risk youth, and vulnerable ecosystems. Hershey seeks to bring positive change in these areas through collaborative programs, partnerships and significant investment, including a half-a-billion-dollar commitment by 2030.  “A sustainable cocoa supply depends on a multi-stakeholder collaborative approach to find solutions to the social, environmental and economic challenges facing cocoa-growing communities,” said Susanna Zhu, Chief Procurement Officer. “As a critical player in the cocoa…

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Starbucks and Closed Loop Partners to develop recyclable, compostable cup solution

Stuart Mitchell

Each year, an estimated 600 billion paper and plastic cups are distributed globally and though Starbucks cups only account for an estimated 1 percent of that total, the company is not leaving the problem-solving to others. “Our store partners proudly pour sustainably sourced coffee in our 28,000 locations around the world, but everyone wants to take our ability to serve it sustainably to the next level,” said Colleen Chapman, vice president of Starbucks global social impact overseeing sustainability. “No one is satisfied with the incremental industry progress made to date,…

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BMW Group publishes Sustainable Value Report 2017

Stuart Mitchell

The BMW Group made significant progress in shaping sustainable mobility in 2017. For the first time, the company sold more than 100,000 electrified vehicles in a single year. Although the percentage of diesel vehicles in Europe decreased, fleet consumption was further reduced – to an average of 122 grams per kilometre. As part of its holistic approach to decarbonisation, a major breakthrough in energy supply was also achieved at the company’s production locations. In 2017, for the first time, 100 percent of the electricity purchased by the BMW Group in…

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Retail Industry Launches Ground-Breaking Action Plan To Advance Sustainability, Development And Equality

Stuart Mitchell

Over twenty-five leading UK retailers are today signing up to a series of pledges to tackle some of the biggest global challenges of the coming decades, as highlighted by the UN. Retail is one of the first industries to take collective action in this way. Better Retail Better World includes a series of stretching targets for the retail industry to achieve by 2020, and uses the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework. These include: Embedding a policy that no worker in the supply chain should pay for…

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UNESCO launches the sustainability science guidelines

Stuart Mitchell

As a consequence of the international Project on “Broadening the Application of the Sustainability Science Approach”, the UNESCO Natural Sciences and Social and Human Sciences Sectors has launched the production of principles and operational guidelines on sustainability science. They aim broaden the application in research and education for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project consists of a UNESCO intersectoral initiative funded by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). In this context, several Member State representatives took part in an event lead by Mr…

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