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The Sustainability Leaders Awards ceremony will take place on the evening of 5 February 2020 at the Park Plaza London Westminster

Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020: Shortlist of finalists revealed

UK Government's spending on trees 'has plummeted by £20m since 2015'

The UK Government spent almost £20m less on tree planting in the financial year 2017-18 than it did in 2014-15, according to an analysis of offi...

Pictured: Roydon Common Nature Reserve 

WBCSD launches mentorship programme to develop women leaders in sustainability

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has launched a new programme to help women reach senior positions in companies and lead...

The WBCSD will partner with a business school in Spain, ESADE, to deliver the LEAP programme
Emissions from the livestock sector are estimated to account for 15% of the global total. 

Report: Food giants must go beyond plant-based products to climate-proof global systems
Interface has published a "lessons for the future" report to reflect on business commitments to sustainability 

Moonshots and loving carbon: Climate action requires step away from 'less bad' business models
Each of the companies assessed are exposed to one or more so-called 'Forest Risk Commodities’, including soy, timber, cattle and palm oil (pictured)

CDP: Consumer goods giants won't meet 2020 'net-zero' deforestation targets
Each of these success stories highlights how businesses and governments across the world are ramping up ambitions and actions across all areas of sustainable development

The Mirror's climate issue and Shanghai's 'city of trees': The sustainability success stories of the week
The Benchmark has been published annually since 2016, assessing sectors considered to be the world's most at-risk for human rights failures in supply chains

Report: More than half of corporates not meeting 'basic requirements' on human rights
The survey results will form the basis of a major new report which will be launched at edie’s Sustainability Leaders Forum on 4-5 February 2020

Business leadership in 2020: edie readers called upon to take annual sustainability survey
The plant-based Rebel Whopper contains 408 calories, while the beef version comes in at 460. Image: Burger King 

Burger King rolls out meat-free Whopper as Mars debuts vegan chocolate
The webinar will be available, on-demand, for registrants afterwards

TCFD best-practice in 2020: Register for edie's green finance webinar

Experts from Avara Foods and Landsec will discuss how businesses should interact with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financi...
Gough believes that corporates must make capitals thinking a core foundation for business decisions, rather than keeping it within a trial or side-project

'To truly embed sustainability, businesses must redefine value itself'
According to the IPCC, farming has been the driver of 75% of deforestation by area size to date. Stock image of a farm in Bavaria

2,500 scientists urge EU to reform environmentally 'damaging' agriculture policy