U.S. companies have been slow to act on super pollutants. Methane, refrigerants and other gases with high global warming potential are responsible for roughly half of the temperature increase the planet has experienced to date, yet most companies have made carbon dioxide the focus of climate strategies. That’s a missed opportunity, experts said this week […]
Two months ago, Levi Strauss Chief Sustainability Officer Jeffrey Hogue shared a LinkedIn job posting for the top sustainability role at Gap. This week, he was named to fill that role. The move was announced by Hogue’s new boss, Sally Gilligan, chief supply chain and transformation officer at Gap. “As we continue our work to […]
As sustainability leaders digest the SBTi’s updated Corporate Net-Zero Standard, it’s clear that the new guidelines provide only a thin and distant lifeline to companies in the struggling carbon removal sector. The new standard’s limited and long-delayed requirement to take responsibility for ongoing emissions won’t reverse the recent fortunes of the voluntary carbon market (VCM), […]
Smart Plastic Technologies, which makes additives to bio-assimilate plastic and reduce waste, was named the Trellis Climate Tech Startup of 2026 during a pitch competition at Trellis Impact 26 in San Francisco yesterday. “Plastic was not designed with its end in mind – we changed that,” said Smart Plastic’s chief sustainability officer Sumathi Pakki, in […]
Community opposition to data center development has become a hot-button bipartisan issue, and citizens and politicians are demanding more information from would-be developers and their customers about potential impacts to electricity prices, water supplies and other natural resources. Businesses must treat those concerns and questions seriously if they want to retain their social license to […]
Microsoft will use more recycled and reused water to cool its data centers as part of its broad commitment to become “water positive” by 2030. Microsoft, like rivals Amazon and Google, is under pressure to justify the water withdrawals typically required to keep equipment cool in massive data centers that support cloud computing and artificial […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. Two court decisions in recent months have changed the landscape of the political battle over ESG. In February, a federal court struck down Texas’ flagship anti-ESG statute as a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments (American Sustainable […]
Securing a reliable long-term supply of high-quality carbon credits requires a level of due diligence that is beyond the resources of many sustainability teams. Now buyers in those companies have a new option: sharing in offtake agreements signed by Amazon, one of a small number of businesses with the capacity to craft such deals. The […]
A new era of sustainability is emerging, focused on operational execution, infrastructure, and the organizational authority to build both. It’s a lot harder than the old days of voluntary commitments, aspirational targets and PR strategies. In dozens of conversations in recent months, corporate sustainability leaders — whether they work in finance, manufacturing, logistics, real estate, […]
Starbucks’ chief sustainability officer, Marika McCauley Sine, and the manager heading its reusable packaging strategy, Chris McFarlane, were among more than 300 employees whose positions were eliminated with the coffee retailer’s latest job cuts announced in mid-May, said sources familiar with the situation who asked not to be named. Remaining corporate sustainability team members now […]