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Hyatt Launches Sustainable Seafood Initiative

August 8, 2014August 7, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Hyatt Hotels has launched a global initiative to increase procurement of responsibly sourced seafood at its hotels, starting with an initial goal of responsibly sourcing more than 50 percent of their inventory by 2018. As a part of this effort, Hyatt will also work toward purchasing more than 15 percent ... Read more »

Coke Improves Water Efficiency for 11th Year

July 11, 2014November 6, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Coca-Cola improved its water-use efficiency for the 11th consecutive year in 2013, with a nearly 8 percent improvement over a 2010 baseline, according to the Coca-Cola and World Wildlife Fund global partnership’s Annual Review. The company’s improved water efficiency performance puts it on track toward the 2020 partnership goal of ... Read more »

Tetra Pak Launches Renewable Packaging Campaign

July 9, 2014July 9, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Tetra Pak has launched a sustainable packaging campaign to raise awareness of the importance of the front end of the life cycle — renewable materials sourcing — and is calling on the consumer goods industry to join in adopting renewability practices. As part of the kick-off to the campaign, called ... Read more »

Field to Market Launches Crop Supply Chain Sustainability Program

July 8, 2014July 8, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Field to Market today launched an agricultural supply chain program for US commodity crops. The sustainable agriculture alliance, whose members include Cargill, General Mills, Kellogg, Monsanto, Coca-Cola Company, World Wildlife Fund and Walmart, says the Field to Market metrics and benchmarks will measure sustainability improvement in corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, ... Read more »

Ecolab Extends Water Management Commitment

June 20, 2014June 19, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ecolab, working with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has signed on as a founding partner of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) to support the launch and implementation of the International Water Stewardship Standard, a global framework to promote sustainable water use. AWS announced the standard in April at the ... Read more »

Mondelez Toughens Sustainable Palm Oil Policies

June 5, 2014June 4, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Mondelez International’s sustainable palm oil action plan, published yesterday, requires suppliers to achieve traceability by the end of 2015. The plan also says suppliers must publish sustainable sourcing policies and implementation timelines by the same date. The snack foods company, which owns billion-dollar brands such as Cadbury, Nabisco and Oreo, ... Read more »

Walmart, Suppliers Launch Recycling Fund

April 30, 2014April 29, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Walmart announced a fund to invest $100 million in recycling infrastructure projects and joined CEOs from Kellogg, Coca-Cola, Monsanto and other major companies to sign sustainable agriculture and supply chain commitments at Walmart’s inaugural Sustainable Product Expo. The three-day event, which kicked-off yesterday, included pledges from participating suppliers that joined ... Read more »

Lego Pledges Supply Chain CO2 Cuts, Joins Climate Savers

November 27, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Lego Group today pledged to work with its suppliers to reduce total carbon emissions as it joins the World Wildlife Federation’s Climate Savers program. If Lego reduced CO2 emissions directly related to toy production at Lego factories by a minimum of 10 percent — the target — this would remove ... Read more »

Coke, Ford, Nike Form Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance

November 20, 2013March 14, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Coca-Cola, Ford, Nike and five other major consumer brand companies along with World Wildlife Fund have formed the Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance (BFA) to support the development of plastics made from plant material and build a more sustainable future for the bioplastics industry. Danone, H.J. Heinz, Nestle, Procter & Gamble and ... Read more »

Climate Change Losses Cost $200 Billion over Last Decade

November 18, 2013November 18, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Economic losses from extreme weather events have risen from an annual global average of about $50 billion in the 1980s to close to $200 billion over the last decade, according to the report released today by the World Bank. Building Resilience: Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development, cites the ... Read more »

Unilever Pledges 100% Traceable Palm Oil by End of 2014

November 13, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Unilever has pledged that by the end of 2014, all of the palm oil the company buys globally will be traceable to known sources. Unilever is one of the world’s major buyers of palm oil for use in products such as margarine, ice cream, soap and shampoo. It purchases around ... Read more »

How Much Does Climate Change Cost Companies?

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A study to calculate the economic risk US industries face from climate change is being funded by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, billionaire Tom Steyer and George W. Bush-era Treasury secretary Henry Paulson, Bloomberg Markets Magazine reports. The three men will also co-chair the study, which will look at ... Read more »

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