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Tetra Pak: Pioneering a sustainable future
The consequences of climate change – drought, floods, along with unreliable access to water and energy – have a destabilising impact on economies and communities around the world. Further rises in global warming could lead to increased levels of vulnerability when it comes to food security – leading to a severe risk of increased hunger across many geographies. This is a severe challenge given the expected growth of the global population to 9.1 billion – requiring an increase in food availability by 70%. Therefore, the role of food sector in tackling climate change is becoming even more imperative.
Tetra Pak – a leading food processing and packaging solutions company – has chosen to focus on a renewability- and recyclability-driven innovation pathway to ensure the de-carbonisation and circularity of materials and address the need for sustainable food packaging.
#TetraPak #ClimateChange #SustainablePackaging
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ZEISS: A company that sees beyond
Climate change and sustainability are increasingly becoming the watchwords for companies across sectors, especially in manufacture of consumer products. The public are, more and more, becoming very aware of the need for resource conservation and for companies to engage in optimisation of their processes to offset negative environmental impact. This is particularly important in industries responsible for providing the tools or equipment for others – such as technologies for the manufacturing sector – who play a crucial role for reducing the environmental footprint of our digital work and life.
ZEISS is a longstanding and sustainable presence in its industry – the company’s two founders, Carl Zeiss and Ernst Abbe, made sustainability part of the corporate identity.
#ZEISS #Sustainability #Technology
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Oerlikon is a hidden sustainability champion
Avoiding CO2 emissions equivalent to the energy used for millions of homes every year.
Meet sustainability champions Oerlikon. Mobility with less weight and emissions, tools and precision components that last much longer and energy-efficient fibers manufacturing: Oerlikon innovations enable their customers to do more with less.
Find our more at their sustainability site: sustainability.oerlikon.com
#Oerlikon #SustainableFuture #Technology
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Dirk Rossmann GmbH: driving the future of sustainability forward
The world’s population is growing. As of March 2020, there was an approximate global population of 7.77 billion, and this number is only expected to increase over the coming decades. However, with this population increase, the need for food, water and other resources will similarly rise to levels we have never faced before. The world is currently facing an environmental crisis, with the effects of climate change already showing an irrevocable impact. Trading companies and their customers have a very special responsibility towards the climate change. People buy millions of products in stores every day. In order to solve complex sustainability challenges, it is therefore essential that retail companies offer customers finished products to solve these challenges. Customers must be empowered to integrate sustainability into their everyday life. As a result, any conversation about how to effectively provide new products for a growing population must factor in sustainability to keep from causing further damage.
With it´s longstanding and sustainable presence across the retail and food sectors, owing to its status as one of the largest drug store chains in Germany and beyond, the Dirk Rossmann GmbH integrates sustainable management into the corporate culture for almost 50 years.
#Rossmann #SustainableProducts
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TBD Media is an international purpose driven media group that helps companies, organisations and governments tell their brand stories in a direct and human way. Combining over 30 years of experience in marketing, content creation, video production and publishing, our senior team have been providing thought-provoking content since 2015.
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QI Group: Building a Sustainable World through RYTHM
The idea of environmentally sustainable economic growth is not new. Many cultures over the course of human history have recognised the need for harmony between the environment, society and economy.
The QI Group of Companies is a diversified multinational entity with a presence around the world through business interests in e-commerce based direct selling, education, travel and leisure, lifestyle and luxury, and retail. With more than 10 businesses that directly employ around 2000 people across Asia, Europe, USA and the Middle East, the QI Group is a truly diverse organisation. However, the common thread that runs through everything they do is the desire to make a positive social impact in local communities around the world by empowering people.
#QIGroup #Sustainability #RYTHM
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Siempelkamp: Making wood-based panel production more sustainable
Siempelkamp, a leading supplier of products and services for various industries worldwide, such as wood-based materials, metal forming or composites, has done a lot of research work sustainable manufacturing and an efficient use of resources.
More than two decades of R&D; activities have led to processes that can transform industrial or agricultural waste into valuable raw materials for e.g. MDF production.
In this film we take a look at the company and how it has shifted its R&D; activities towards sustainability and sustainable manufacturing in order to protect the limited raw material “wood” in a sustainable way, reduce CO2 emissions and thus contribute to the preservation of our environment.
#Siempelkamp #PlantEngineering #Sustainability
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Moody’s: Success through Sustainability
Climate change is having a significant effect on the global economy. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, rising global temperatures could cost the global economy $69 trillion in by the year 2100, if warming hits the two-degree Celsius threshold. It is a global problem requiring global solutions; and any solution will require an overhaul of current investment decisions in order to transition to a more sustainable economy. Investors are aiming to generate a positive investment outcome and impact, alongside managing financial risks and returns.
As a global integrated risk assessment firm, Moody’s provides ESG and climate risk data, assessments, analytics, research, benchmark products and services to help companies and financial markets take better, more sustainable, decisions.
#MoodysESG #Sustainability #Finance
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GF: The future of delivering clean drinking water
The effects of climate change, a growing population and wider environmental issues are placing significant pressure upon individuals, businesses and governments. Solutions must be provided to offset the negative impact of such effects, while creating social and environmental benefits. Additionally, awareness of the need for greater sources of clean food and water is only growing, along with the demand for sustainable mobility and higher energy efficiency. As a result, if a more positive and sustainable future is to become a reality, new methods and technologies must be developed in the pursuit of such considerations.
GF is the worldwide preferred partner for the safe transport of liquids and gases, vehicle weight reduction and high-precision manufacturing technologies.
#GeorgFischer #ClimateChange #Water
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TBD Media is an international purpose driven media group that helps companies, organisations and governments tell their brand stories in a direct and human way. Combining over 30 years of experience in marketing, content creation, video production and publishing, our senior team have been providing thought-provoking content since 2015.
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UL, Empowering Trust for a Sustainable World
A multitude of reports show that companies are digging in and making progress when it comes to sustainability. All the sustainability planning, initiatives and tracking are starting to pay off in the way of meaningful reduction in energy and resource use, ultimately diminishing companies’ carbon footprints.
As trials turn into results and years turn into decades, we have the benefit of hindsight and lessons learned as we define what sustainability means in business today. In 2020, as companies continue to grow, change and learn, here are a few insights that paint a picture of the current landscape and propose next steps to help define the role of sustainability in your business.
It’s complex and interconnected
To be effective, sustainability must infiltrate every aspect of the business. Sustainability is at the core of “continued viability” for businesses and includes grappling with challenges such as supply chain complexity, innovation safety, full production life cycle visibility and future-focused brand management. Gone are the days of a siloed sustainability team acting to support sustainability alone.
BSR’s State of Sustainable Business 2019 indicated 63% of executives surveyed said sustainability is now aligned and integrated with their corporate purpose. More than half (54%) indicated that sustainability is included in the company’s key performance indicators (KPIs) and 49% said that sustainability is integrated into the company’s products and services. This data points to a clear and complete shift of sustainability from sidebar project to fully integrated strategic initiative.
Complexity also extends outside of the organization’s walls to partners, suppliers, transporters and other collaborators. Gaining visibility into the environmental impact from the time of a product’s conception through end use and disposal can be a daunting task involving dozens of players. In a survey from UL, Unpacking Supply Chain Complexity, 68% of respondents classified their supply chain as “somewhat to very complex.” Only 40% of companies with highly complex supply chains indicate they have high visibility into their supply chain.
The good news is that companies are more aware of these challenges and are taking steps to address it, with solutions ranging from supply chain mapping and deploying new evaluation tools, to leveraging connected technologies that enable the collection of data across the entire organization and broader supply chain.
Data and insights are key to it all
Data is fundamental to successful sustainability initiatives and to advancing companies’ abilities to measure, track and report on goals and accomplishments. While new technologies abound, many companies still lack the smooth integration of systems necessary to fully realize in-depth sustainability reporting. A report from the GreenBiz Group and Schneider Electric indicated an impressive 80% of respondents have energy and sustainability collection projects underway. Unfortunately, data access is not as comprehensive or effective as needed. According to the same study, only 22% of respondents share data across the enterprise. The obstacles cited include insufficient tools for data collection (41%) and unreliable or incomplete data (48%).
Many technologies exist to help companies collect, share and analyze the data needed to allow them to effectively identify and pursue sustainability initiatives. UL’s Unpacking Supply Chain Complexity reported 81% of companies with high visibility across their supply chain have completed or are in the process of deploying connected devices across the supply chain. Quickly following suit, 39% of companies with low visibility into their supply chain are now in the process of deploying connected devices.
Sustainability is a moving target
As companies advance their sustainability initiatives, there is cause for celebration. At the same time, predictions of dramatic climate change call for increasingly effective action that will push companies out of their comfort zone. Whereas the single-attribute sustainability program was once cause for celebration, current trends point to a critically important transformation from take-make-waste business models to circular models. The sense of urgency grows alongside heightened consumer awareness, advancing regulatory measures and ever more complex health, safety and privacy risks.
According to a Newsweek Vantage report, Going Circular: How Global Business is Embracing the Circular Economy, while fully 98% of senior executives surveyed were familiar with the concept of circularity, only 9% of the global economy is circular today. A completely novel concept introduced just 10 years ago, circularity is increasingly a transformational goal for companies. In this survey, 30% of executives said their companies are adopting circular practices, while 77% said they expect to implement or align incentives around circularity targets within the next five years.
The pursuit of circularity will completely transform our businesses, communities and lives, meeting the new demands and resource limitations of today’s world. These transformational changes, however, will not occur overnight and will take place one leap at a time. As companies become comfortable in one area, they will then move to tackle another, compounding their beneficial effects and positive financial results.
With data-driven insights and scientific acumen, organizations can achieve quality while meeting aggressive sustainability goals. Sustainable innovation will be made possible with data-driven decision making and technology, building trust among partners, consumers, investors and other stakeholders. The time is now to embark on this journey of transformation for your business, people and the planet.
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