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#worldwaterday US utilities and energy firms urged to work together to cut water waste

Terry Slavin, (Mar 22, 2017)

New report from Barclays highlights investment opportunities in water saving technologies amid rocketing use from fracking

Report ignites debate over biomass as climate solution

Terry Slavin, (Mar 2, 2017)

A new report from Chatham House has reignited debate over biomass as a carbon-neutral form of energy

Sainsbury’s slips on animal welfare

Terry Slavin, (Jan 26, 2017)

Marks and Spencer and Waitrose keep top spots in BBFAW annual benchmark, while Tesco improves to second tier

Issue 8: Closing the lid on food waste

Angeli Mehta, (Dec 15, 2016)

Tesco and Marks and Spencer are helping to tackle an issue that rose up the global agenda this year

NGO voices: ‘We need more companies to join food waste battle’

EC Newsdesk, (Dec 13, 2016)

Niki Charalampopolou, founder of the UK charity Feedback, talks about its partnership with Tesco

Tetra Pak makes pioneering foray into bioplastics

Terry Slavin, (Dec 9, 2016)

In an exclusive interview with Ethical Corporation, Tetra Pak’s vice-president for environment talks about how the packaging giant is trying to meet the sustainability challenges of its ubiquitous aseptic cartons

NGO Voices: ‘We have to help poorest small cocoa farmers to prevent deforestation’

EC Newsdesk, (Nov 18, 2016)

Christian Mensah of Rainforest Alliance says the cocoa industry should focus on helping the most vulnerable farmers replant, not the top performers to expand production

IUCN urges UN to protect high seas

Ellen R Delisio, (Nov 14, 2016)

Conservationists say measures to protect oceans are ‘about 100 years behind land conservation’

Coca-Cola cleans up record on water usage

Nadine Hawa, (Nov 3, 2016)

But drinks giant of admits it could have dealt better with troubles in India, where activists accuse it of greenwash

Coca-Cola Water Replenishment Case Study: Partnerships key ingredient to success

Nadine Hawa, (Oct 24, 2016)

Coca-Cola’s water stewardship efforts have involved building capacity internally and partnering with a host of external organisations.

Bee decline Briefing Part 5: A business case for pollinators

Mark Gough, (Oct 14, 2016)

Mark Gough on how the new Natural Capital Protocol can help companies protect pollinators

Bee decline Briefing Part 3: Rooftop hives give City bankers lessons in CSR

Angeli Mehta, (Oct 14, 2016)

Disadvantaged young people from London’s borough of Hackney are getting lessons from the bees, and passing them on to lawyers and bankers in the City of London.

Bee decline Briefing Part 2: No easy answers in battle to save bees

Angeli Mehta, (Oct 14, 2016)

From neonics to parasites, pollinators are under assault. New methods of farming to preserve biodiversity may be needed

Bee decline Briefing Part 1: Plight of the bumblebee

April Streeter, (Oct 14, 2016)

In the first article of a four-part briefing we look at how companies are ignoring the alarming decline in bee populations at their peril

Smallholders Review: 500 million small steps to feed the world

April Streeter, (Oct 13, 2016)

With climate change threatening global food production, companies from Olam to Unilever are focusing on lifting smallholder farmers out of poverty

Bee decline Briefing Part 4: Pollinators as portfolio risk

Terry Slavin, (Oct 12, 2016)

Abigail Herron of Aviva Investors explains how asset managers can drive the decline in bee populations up corporate agendas

How The Body Shop is setting a higher bar for carbon offsetting

Terry Slavin, (Sep 23, 2016)

The Community Climate Biodiversity Standard used in the Bio-Bridges programme is an ecosystem services approach that demands stretching standards for community involvement and biodiversity

The Body Shop heads back to the rainforest

Terry Slavin, (Sep 22, 2016)

Ethical Corporation goes to Vietnam to learn how the 40-year-old firm is championing biodiversity with its ambitious new sustainable sourcing strategy

EthicsWatch: Palm oil – FMCG firms continue boycott of IOI palm oil

April Streeter, (Sep 21, 2016)

Companies say more robust sanctions are needed to break the link with deforestation

Sustainable carpets: Interface vows to leave no footprint

Mike Scott, (Sep 18, 2016)

The carpet tile maker Interface set a deadline of eliminating its impact on the environment by 2020. Now the goal is in sight, the company wants to go even further than Mission Zero

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