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Consumer concerns about plastic pollution have led many brands to look at bio-based alternatives.

In 2018, when Cape Town residents stared into the abyss of the taps running dry, there was talk of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to provide much-needed water. Thankfully, entrepreneurs are coming up with less outlandish ideas to help tackle the global crisis of shrinking supplies of freshwater, which deprives more than 2 billion people of access to safe drinking water and threatens our planet’s life-support system.

The fight against climate change is a collective one. However, as pressures mount on individual countries to meet their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), flawed carbon registry infrastructure is making this goal far more difficult to achieve.

As the call for sustainability grows ever stronger, sporting events are increasingly finding themselves being held to account.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently confirmed what many had feared. By 2027, average global temperature rise will be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. We won’t permanently exceed 1.5C, but rather breach it on a temporary basis, and with increasing frequency. Despite government and company commitments to cut emissions, the chances of exceeding 1.5C of warming have increased steadily since 2015, when the WMO assessed it as close to zero.