This week: Andy Hoffman, professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, on why business has to evolve to embrace sustainability across functions and accept that profit is only one measure of success. Business may be the problem, he argues, but is also clearly the solution.
Plus: H&M and Ikea developing new low impact fibres from forests; Sainsbury’s to take back and recycle plastic films; palm oil’s SE Asian deforestation impact down 58% year on year in 2020 says Chain Reaction Research; and, AB InBev takes up $10.1bn sustainability-linked loan facility, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
Chemical complexity: Why we need to move beyond organic versus synthetic
Weekly podcast: Why brands struggle to translate global goals into local progress
Fifty shades of green: the unintended consequences of planting trees
What does the roadmap to regenerative apparel look like?
Weekly podcast: How Cargill cuts methane from cattle supply chains
Why multi-cropping is essential to boost smallholder incomes
Greenpeace on certification’s failings, and how they should be fixed
Weekly podcast: Is smallholder farming really a broken model?
What's the solution to the profit pursuit problem?
Weekly podcast: What will future materials be made from?
Organic cotton's sector-changing potential
Weekly podcast: GIZ on why producer communities need a stronger voice
How cotton learns from other commodity supply chains
Potential labour and human costs of a successful energy transition
Weekly podcast: How an ecosystems services approach helps all producer communities
Are financial institutions ignoring deforestation?
Weekly podcast: Manage apparel sector human rights risks by empowering producer communities
Materials innovation and sustainability: the business opportunities in 2021
Weekly podcast: Renewable energy’s human rights risks
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