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Zalando and Mango have committed to the Pack4Good initiative which aims to transform the impacts of global packaging supply chain on forests.

Share Nicole Rycroft, founder and executive director of Canopy, a non-profit organization that works with the forest industry’s biggest customers to develop sustainable solutions, has been awarded the US$3 million Climate Breakthrough Award. Photo: Alana Paterson / The Narwhal Profile ‘Risk-taking is an absolute expectation’: Nicole Rycroft talks forests and her US$3 million climate award Canopy founder and executive director plans to use the Climate Breakthrough Award to scale up her work to shift packaging and clothing manufacturing away from for...

Carl Meyer, Local Journalism Initiative Canopy executive director Nicole Rycroft stands next to straw bales at Columbia Pulp Mill in Washington. Image Credit: Carl Meyer, Local Journalism Initiative February 13, 2021 - 6:00 PM For Nicole Rycroft, the first modern, tree-free commercial-scale pulp mill in North America was a “lightbulb moment” about the climate crisis. The new mill in eastern Washington state, called Columbia Pulp, runs entirely without woodchips. Instead, it makes pulp, for paper products like tissues and food containers, out of some of the h...

For Nicole Rycroft, the first modern, tree-free commercial-scale pulp mill in North America was a “lightbulb moment” about the climate crisis.

THE STANDARD By Sara Okuoro | February 4th 2021 at 12:30:00 GMT +0300 Climate Breakthrough awardee Mohamed Adow. He is the Director and Founder of think tank Power Shift Africa. A Kenyan climate policy activist has bagged the global the Climate Breakthrough Award in recognition of his work addressing climate change. Mohamed Adow, the Director and Founder of think tank Power Shift Africa in Nairobi, is this year’s one of two awardees. The second recipient of the award is Nicole Rycroft, the Executive Director Canada-based Canopy, a not-for-profit organisation that works with stakeholders i...