This week: Jessie Cato from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre talks about the latest tracker following the forced labour risks in the supply chains of the minerals necessary to transition global energy supply to renewables. Lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel are among the elements required for solar panels, batteries and wind turbines, and have significant supply chain human rights challenges.
Plus: Chatham House and UNEP report says food supply is responsible for 86% extinction risks; WWF’s plan for dairy to get to net zero; PepsiCo joint venture with Beyond Meat; UK renewables supply beat fossil fuels in 2020; and GM to be zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
Nestlé’s plan to tackle cocoa child labour
Weekly podcast: How to identify human rights risks in production landscapes
How the apparel sector can cut 45% emissions by 2030
Weekly podcast: due diligence opportunities from new EU directive
Effective landscape approaches unpacked – ISEAL’s practical step-by-step guidance
The unintended consequences of due diligence for palm oil
Weekly podcast: Why supply chain due diligence needs better data
What does ‘transformational change’ mean in practice for commodity landscapes?
Is a standardised approach to soil carbon measurement possible?
Rimba Collective’s innovative forest conservation at scale
Weekly podcast: What effective collective landscape approach action looks like
Accountability Framework: Fast-tracking rubber sector sustainability progress
Weekly podcast: How to make a landscape approach work for the entire value chain
Forest 500: little corporate progress on deforestation
The rise and rise of tree-based cellulosic textile fibres
Weekly podcast: How to avoid supply chain data overload
Why carbon offsetting must be more than just moving the deckchairs
Weekly podcast: Rubber supply chain innovation hits the road
Where landscape approaches are being applied successfully now
Weekly podcast: How will due diligence impact commodity supply chains?
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