Procter & Gamble’s longtime sustainability chief Virginie Helias is stepping down, effective June 30. Her replacement will be Michele Baeten, another veteran of P&G marketing and brand management, who is currently vice president of integrated sustainable growth. Helias has spearheaded the consumer products giant’s sustainability strategy since 2011 and was named chief sustainability officer in […]
As scrutiny of data center water consumption intensifies, Amazon is increasing its use of recycled water for cooling applications and running its servers at hotter temperatures to decrease its freshwater withdrawals. Amazon Web Services withdrew 2.5 billion gallons of water for its data centers in 2025, the company disclosed on June 10. At the sites […]
The Science Based Targets initiative’s first major overhaul of its influential Corporate Net Zero Standard includes significant changes that prioritize five-year decarbonization milestones and provide additional options for reducing value-chain emissions. Today’s release of Version 2 of the standard, the de facto rulebook for many companies’ decarbonization efforts, arrives close to five years after the […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. Let’s say your company is making progress toward reducing its overall environmental impact but wants to go further to compensate for the hardest-to-abate emissions. You know your peers are purchasing carbon credits to do so, but you’ve seen […]
What should a company do when its single-largest source of emissions jumps by more than 20 percent due to a change in accounting rules? That’s the unenviable challenge eBay is grappling with as it figures out how to report greenhouse gases generated by the trucks and airplanes that deliver goods sold on its platform — […]
The opinions expressed here by Trellis expert contributors are their own, not those of Trellis or its editors. The conditions shaping corporate sustainability have not only intensified — they’ve broken in ways few expected. Last year we examined the public posture of 75 multinational companies to determine how political pressure was influencing their climate commitments […]
Major automakers are significantly understating the emissions generated by the vehicles they sell, according to research from Carbon Tracker, a financial think tank. The discrepancy between manufacturers’ figures and Carbon Tracker’s estimates, researchers said, is the result of “unrealistic” assumptions about lifetime use of vehicles and other modeling parameters. This creates a “Carbon Gap” between […]
This April, some of the biggest names in sustainability gathered at the neoclassical Gotham Hall in midtown Manhattan to toast the quarter-century anniversary of environmental disclosure platform CDP, one of the profession’s most notable organizations. More than 22,000 respondents shared emissions data with CDP last year, including businesses that together are responsible for nearly two-thirds […]
Asked to name a company with an ambitious climate program, even sustainability veterans would likely choose one from North America or Europe. But over the past year or so, a series of private- and public-sector initiatives have moved the center of gravity of corporate sustainability towards Asia. The most recent nudge is the launch late […]
An international coalition of businesses, governments, nonprofits, designers and packaging companies has introduced a universal identification symbol for reusable containers akin to the “chasing arrows” triangle used to flag materials that can be recycled. The symbol — an arrow that loops back on itself — was one of 236 submissions in a year-long global design […]