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Heathrow’s electric tractor and seaweed coffee capsules: The sustainability success stories of the week
…supporting our commitment to making IAG Cargo, and the wider industry, more sustainable.” THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: Legal and General links new social loan for affordable housing scheme Legal & General…

What makes a great sustainability team? Meet our award winners, Grosvenor Property UK
…tools and targets and a commitment to become the first UK property company to be carbon-neutral by 2025 across all scopes. This small team works across Great Britain and Ireland…

SDG ‘wish tree’ added to Metaverse in bid to raise awareness
…the tree and approach it to leave messages. They will be encouraged to make commitments to drive progress towards one or more of the SDGs, or to leave messages of…

What makes a sustainability leader? Meet our social and community champions, Walgreens Boots Alliance
…Boots Alliance’s (WBA) commitment to health equity. Through numerous long-term partnerships with organisations which deliver lifesaving vaccines, life-changing vitamins and other health services to vulnerable populations around the globe, WBA…

British American Tobacco publishes ‘transition plan’ to reach net-zero emissions
…through our Low-Carbon Transition Plan, we’re demonstrating our continuing commitment to building A Better Tomorrow. “As a global company, we know minimising impacts across our value chain is the right…

Net-zero by 2050: International agreement reached by aviation sector
…to meet the commitments. It is up to nations to interpret how they, specifically, will deliver against its international commitments. The ICAO has stated that all national aviation sectors will…

COP27 Action Tracker: Truss and Sharma tussle over whether King Charles should attend
…update their Paris Agreement commitments within 12 months and signed a new text, the Glasgow Climate Pact – the first from any COP to explicitly mention fossil fuels. Much has…

FMCG giants signal demand for 800,000 tonnes of chemically recycled plastics by 2030
…need to be scaled rapidly for them to deliver their commitments on increasing recycled content. Such commitments have become increasingly common through collaborative business initiatives. To that end, the CGF’s…

What makes a sustainability leader? Meet our consultancy champions, Anthesis Group
…its commitment to SDG 2 Zero Hunger. Anthesis ensures its offices are carbon-neutral, and it is offsetting all its legacy emissions. The organisation also offers all UK employees two volunteering…

COP27 Action Tracker: With a new UK Prime Minister, is there any hope yet for a smooth COP presidency handover?
…update their Paris Agreement commitments within 12 months and signed a new text, the Glasgow Climate Pact – the first from any COP to explicitly mention fossil fuels. Much has…

EU countries agree COP27 stance after row on climate ambition
…in time for COP27”. These climate commitments should be underpinned by promises with robust legislation, the text adds. Pushing EU climate legislation forward The discussions on Monday centred around two…

‘A dire warning’: National climate pledges aligned with 2.5C pathway, UN reveals
…expressed concerns that even though NDCs are “too little, too slow”, many nations are failing to even deliver these commitments. IEMA’s chief executive Sarah Mukherjee said: “Ultimately, NDCs are only…

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agrees to attend COP27
…government has a lot of work to do to rebuild its climate reputation after a year of rowing back on commitments made in Glasgow. “The PM quashed plans to revive…

COP27 preview: Here’s everything you need to know about the climate conference in Egypt
…commitments for wealthy nations to “at least double their collective provision” of international climate finance by 2025 and to update their plans for contributing to the Paris Agreement ahead of…

Report: Companies leading on climate action seeing better financial returns
…set an emissions commitment for 2030 or earlier, and not all of these commitments are science-based. Even pacesetter companies have completed, on average, just 18 of the 32 climate actions…

From food security to climate finance: What do green groups want from COP27?
…last year, nations collectively agreed to update their Paris Agreement commitments within 12 months and signed a new text, the Glasgow Climate Pact – the first from any COP to…

More than 50 corporate giants sign landmark new climate lobbying agreement
…united front that governments need to see coming from the private sector.” Gawel said: “Momentum is building within the private sector as more companies demonstrate a growing commitment…

Net-zero ‘guidelines’ launched at COP27 in push for improved credibility
…community closer to delivering on climate commitments and set the world on the right path for 2050.” The UN stated last month that the world is on track for at…

Meeting 1.5C: Don’t forget the critical role nature has to play
…finally rising on the global agenda. We saw international commitments to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 and, crucially, the COP26 final decision text emphasises “the importance of protecting, conserving…

‘We are all in’: Hundreds of business signal ‘unwavering’ support to 1.5C at COP27
…enough progress has been made since the commitments of COP26, the businesses note. The IEA estimates that, if targets made in Glasgow were met on time, the world would be…