This week: Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, on challenges for smallholder farmers emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, and why they must develop financial and agricultural resilience, alongside continual access to new markets.
Plus: why poverty alleviation can cut deforestation; 100 economists urging an end to the carbon economy; challenges for plastic recycling from low oil prices; and, Unilever, Patagonia and Ikea voted sustainable business leaders (again), in the news digest.
Hosted by Ian Welsh
Closing the loop: The role of recycled and recyclable materials in a circular economy
Monday briefing: Will the revised UK net-zero strategy deliver?
Weekly podcast – Why ten years of progress on deforestation is at risk
How due diligence regulation levels the playing field
Monday briefing: IPCC’s latest assessments and a watershed moment for the UN?
Weekly podcast – Sea change: what to expect from the UN oceans treaty
Can business deliver on the ‘how’ of decarbonisation?
Reality check: how is business tackling the big sustainability challenges?
The Carbon Debate: what reforms are necessary for voluntary carbon markets?
How to get to grips with ethical trade due diligence
Bayer on what good ethical trade legislation looks like
Towards clarity and consensus: How apparel brands can measure their biodiversity impacts for a nature-positive future
How cocoa-free chocolate can be a win-win opportunity
Weekly podcast – Effective business and government collaboration on decarbonisation
Clarity and collaboration to protect migrant workers
Weekly podcast: Sourcing challenges in a global value chains perfect storm
What genuine collaboration in delivering a living wage looks like
Weekly podcast – Can the future of chocolate be cocoa-free?
Collaboration to drive progress on farmer-focused food resilience
Weekly podcast – The urgent need for better migrant worker protection
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