Conversations With Consequence: How Can Business Better Innovate for Sustainability?

The Erb Institute engaged with several speakers and participants around key questions that relate to business, academia and sustainability, during a partner event with Innovation Forum in Detroit. We asked business sustainability professionals: What new opportunities are on the horizon for business to better “innovate for sustainability”?

Smithfield Foods’ Facilities Earn National Sustainability Recognition

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is pleased to announce that ProFood World selected the company’s Kinston, North Carolina and Sioux City, Iowa facilities as winners of the 2018 Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards (SEMA). The annual awards program honors companies for exceptional sustainability achievements in food, beverage, and consumer products manufacturing.

MilliporeSigma Drives Packaging Sustainability Through New Program

As part of MilliporeSigma’s commitment to reduce its environmental impact, the company has launched a new SMASH Packaging Plan — a four-year approach to drive improvement in the sustainability of its packaging. Through this initiative, MilliporeSigma is setting new standards and goals to shrink, secure, switch and save packaging while still meeting the required performance requirements and transit safety regulations.

The Business Case for Speaking Up in Support of Climate Action

Regardless of political leanings, companies understand that climate change presents a significant risk to the American economy and recognize the urgent need for action. “One of the most important things that companies can do is to continue to elevate the voices that say ‘this is beyond politics,’” says Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication in a recent Ceres webinar.

Partners in Purpose: Duke Energy Solar Plants Will Remove 1 Billion Pounds of CO2 Per Year

Duke Energy recently announced locations for three new universal solar plants in the state of Florida. The plants are expected to eliminate 1 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year beginning in early 2020. Duke Energy plans to add a total of 700 MW of solar power throughout Florida by 2022.

Driving Transformative Actions Across the Ecosystem, Changing the Climate for a Sustainable Future.

City Developments Limited (CDL) published its latest Integrated Sustainability Report (ISR) 2019 alongside the release of the company’s Annual Report. Entitled “Changing the Climate: Towards Future Value 2030 Goals”, the company’s second fully-digital report communicates the leading eco-developer’s progress towards its material ESG goals and targets established under the CDL Future Value 2030 Sustainability Blueprint.

Nespresso Invites Companies to Join Its Aluminium Recycling Scheme

Nespresso today issued an invitation to other portioned coffee manufacturers to join its recycling program, paving the way for a global recycling scheme for aluminium coffee capsules. With this initiative, Nespresso hopes to improve the accessibility and convenience of aluminium capsule recycling.

Helping Food Banks Achieve Zero Hunger

In 2015, numerous countries made the commitment to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 through the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

The Benefits and Pitfalls of Setting Science-based Climate Targets in Practice: Lessons Learned from Sustainable Brands’ 2018 New Metrics Conference

I had the great opportunity to host a roundtable discussion on setting science-based targets at Sustainable Brands’ 2018 New Metrics conference in Philadelphia in October. Science-based targets (SBTs) have received a growing amount of research interest and company attention over the past five years. Currently, 515 companies worldwide are engaged in setting and validating SBTs through the Science Based Targets Initiative—a steep increase from the 14 companies who were engaged in this process four years ago.

US$800,000 in Grants to Tackle Global Hunger Through Food Banking

The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) announced today a total of US$800,000 in grants for food banking organizations across the globe through the Zero Hunger Food Bank Challenge.

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