Scope 3 emissions are a headache in food and agriculture. Large supermarkets stock tens of thousands of products containing multiple ingredients. And food companies have supply networks that span large farming cooperatives and smallholders in developing nations. Obtaining primary emissions data from every node in this network is impossible, forcing companies to rely on “spend-based” […]
Amazon’s commitment to become net zero by 2040 — earlier than its rivals in tech and e-commerce — came Sept. 19, 2019, one day before 3,000-plus Amazon employees participated in that year’s Global Climate Strike and 8,700 signed a petition calling for their employer to take action. Behind both campaigns: an activist group called Amazon […]
The solar and wind industries have never looked more vulnerable. Just weeks ago, Congress passed a policy and budget package billed as fiscal reform that, in reality, takes direct aim at clean energy. Critical tax credits are set to sunset in 2027. Foreign content rules that will sharply increase the cost of new projects arrive […]
Climate emissions leaped by 7.5 percent in a single year in the fashion industry, which now contributes nearly 2 percent of global climate pollution, according to a new report. The jump in greenhouse gases in 2023 — the most recent year for which full data is available — follows a slight decline of 1.17 percent […]
It’s a tough time to be a sustainability expert in government or part of a social movement. A survey by Trellis data partner GlobeScan, together with the ERM Institute and Volans, shows experts are increasingly critical of how key actors are performing in advancing sustainable development. Ratings have dropped most sharply for: Social movements (down 21 […]
Technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere have progressed rapidly. Unfortunately, early-stage funding has not kept pace. In 2022, non-profit Terraset set out to close this gap using philanthropic dollars. It has since deployed several million dollars purchasing durable carbon removal from more than a dozen projects that typically aim to capture and store carbon […]
GSK has committed to reducing more emissions faster than any other large pharmaceutical company. Now it has five years left to deliver. Special Series Chasing Net Zero Intro: A case-by-case look at corporate progress on 2030 climate goals Profile 1: Nestlé is on track to halve emissions by 2030. Here’s how (holes and all) Methodology: How […]
When Keen Footwear phased out “forever chemicals” seven years ago, it was well ahead of bans that took hold this January in California and New York, as well as France and Denmark. As new regulations drive global apparel and outdoor gear brands to rid supply chains of toxic water-proofing substances, Keen continues to share its […]
Kenvue, the consumer goods company behind brands including Tylenol, Neutrogena and Listerine, is training its 1,800-person research and development workforce to include environmental metrics in their innovation process. The move follows an internal trial of Kenvue’s patent-pending product assessment tool, the Sustainable Innovation Profiler. R&D teams, product formulators and packaging engineers can use the tool […]
There’s a growing appetite across the food industry for dried seaweed. No, it’s not to satisfy a trendy diet craze. Rather, it’s a solution to tackle methane pollution from agriculture. Chipotle, Mars, Danone and Clover Sonoma are among the market-leading companies investing in varieties of seaweed-based feed additives to cut the amount of methane produced […]