#SustyTalk: The WBA s Dan Neale on delivering social transformation
edie s #SustyTalk interview series continues with an exclusive talk with the World Benchmarking Alliance s (WBA) social transformation lead Dan Neale.
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With edie readers working remotely or on furlough, this new series of video interviews keeps you connected to the inspirational business leaders who are continuing to drive sustainability and champion climate action from their own homes.
#SustyTalk is all about keeping edie s loyal readers connected to sustainable business leaders across the world, whilst reminding us all that sustainability and climate action must go on through the current Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
Packaging giant Mondi targets 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable products by 2025
As part of a new sustainability strategy which it claims is aligned with the UN s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of the world s biggest packaging and paper companies has pledged to phase-out products that can t be recycled, reused or composted.
Pictured: Paper production equipment at a facility in Sweden. Image: Mondi Group
Mondi’s new ten-year action plan, called MAP2030, will require sweeping changes across the company’s global value chain. Its focus points are the circular economy, climate action and empowering people.
The new commitment on recyclability, reusability and compostability falls into the first category and has a 2025 deadline. Many other businesses are already working towards this aim in this timespan through initiatives like WRAP’s UK Plastics Pact. Mondi’s group head of sustainable development Gladys Naylor recently wrote a blog for edie outlining the oppor
Major companies to have aligned their emissions reductions targets with climate science are collectively planning to invest more than $25.9bn in climate mitigation through to 2030, according to new analysis covering firms including Tesco and M.
The ocean economy is growing as commercial use of the ocean accelerates, while progress toward achieving international goals for ocean conservation and sustainability is lagging. In this context, the private sector is increasingly recognized as having the capacity to hamper efforts to achieve aspirations of sustainable ocean-based development or alternatively to bend current trajectories of ocean use by taking on the mantle of corporate biosphere stewardship. Here, we identify levels of industry concentration to assess where this capacity rests. We show that the 10 largest companies in eight core ocean economy industries generate, on average, 45% of each industry’s total revenues. Aggregating across all eight industries, the 100 largest corporations (the “Ocean 100”) account for 60% of total revenues. This level of concentration in the ocean economy presents both risks and opportunities for ensuring sustainability and equity of global ocean use.
Government to limit UK business exposure to Xinjiang human rights issues
The UK Government has unveiled a new package of measures aimed at ensuring that British organisations aren t benefitting from human rights violations linked to the abuse of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Uighur people travel along birch tree lined roads to the weekly market at Yopurga near Kashgar in Xinjiang
The new measures are designed to ensure that British organisations, public or private, don’t financially benefit from the current human rights abuses reported in China. The nation has faced global criticism from all major governments over the alleged persecution of Uighurs, who are a Muslim minority group mainly located in the Xinjiang province.