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HSBC pledges $100m to Bill Gates’ clean energy innovation fund

HSBC has confirmed a $100m investment in Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, a private-public accelerator programme focused on mobilising funding for technologies that could play a key role in the energy transition.

Built for Better: Walmart launches online platform to highlight sustainable products

Social sustainability

Plastic-free festive food and re-planted trees: How are businesses working to make Christmas more sustainable?

Circular economy

How online retailing is allowing fast fashion to thrive

Energy

ASOS to trial reusable packaging in drive to cut plastics waste

Circular economy

London businesses turn to cargo bikes to slash Christmas logistics emissions

Etsy to offset global shipping emissions

Circular economy

Can sustainability help retailers overcome a ‘trust deficit’?

EXCLUSIVE: With the retail sector battling against low trust-levels, high-street closures and a transition to e-commerce, delegates at edie's Responsible Retail conference claimed that embedding sustainability as part of a holistic brand purpose can drive prosperity for businesses.

Energy

Paradigm shift: How ‘unsatisfied customers’ are driving M&S’s sustainability progress

With Marks & Spencer (M&S) publishing the latest update to its Plan A sustainability strategy this week, the retailer’s director of sustainable business Mike Barry explains how mounting consumer pressures have helped to accelerate progress towards delivering sustainable products and packaging.

Circular economy

Black Friday: An ideal selling point for sustainability-conscious retailers?

Black Friday, which has since birthed its tech-savvy offspring Cyber Monday, is upon us again, but while retailers attend to whip up a frenzy to boost sales some companies are using the commercial event to highlight their commitments to sustainability.

Social sustainability

Drones and autonomous vehicles: Can Ford’s delivery vision take flight?

As online shopping becomes the norm, retailers are casting eyes to the emissions of the fleets that transport goods around the country, but could electric and autonomous driving and drones act as a viable method to transport deliveries? Ford seems to think so.

Tech & innovation

Black Friday: Five ways businesses are promoting sustainable shopping during the frenzy

Black Friday and its tech-savvy sibling Cyber Monday look set to send the retail sphere into a frenzy. But with consumers beginning to align to companies with sustainability credentials, will this year's shopping spree spare a thought for the environment?

Social sustainability

Britain’s first online renewable energy marketplace launched by Good Energy

Businesses can now choose how and where their electricity is generated through the UK's first online marketplace for renewable energy, launched by independent supplier Good Energy this week.

Circular economy

Inside the access economy: Amazon and Nimber forge different paths to optimise logistics

EXCLUSIVE: As Amazon and Sainsbury's ramp up efforts to improve delivery times, the chief executive of 'social delivery' service Nimber has claimed that the next few years will be a defining era for crowd logistics and the sharing economy.

Most electrical goods bought online have misleading energy labels, study finds

Most electrical goods bought online have either been given a misleading energy label or none at all, according to a three-year survey across eleven European countries.

Energy

Walmart launches virtual sustainability shop

American retailer Walmart has opened up an online tool that allows customers to factor in sustainability credentials when purchasing products from its website.

Online retailers worst for omitting product energy information

Online retailers across Europe are far behind bricks and mortar shops in providing information about the energy performance of domestic appliances, according to findings released today (24 July) by the Energy Saving Trust (EST).