Most recent 10 articles: Sustainable Brands
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Climate Uneducation in the US, Part 4: Educating the Educators - Sustainable Brands (Oct 26, 2024) |
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Oct 26, 2024 · Thankfully, a growing number of programs and resources have emerged to help arm US teachers with the resources and knowledge they need to teach students on climate-related topics.
This previous three sections of this four-part series focused on the dilemma of inadequate education in the US on the subject of climate change - a phenomenon that is already affecting the majority of the population around the globe - from primary school through to the post-graduate level.
In this fourth and final part of the series, we meet some of the organizations and people developing solutions to the problem.
Organizations such as the National Science Teaching Association are working ... Read more ...
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Redesigning the Food System for Resilience: Lessons from the Field - Sustainable Brands (Oct 25, 2024) |
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Oct 25, 2024 · Another central thread throughout SB’24 San Diego highlighted the efforts underway by startup innovators, multinational brands and NGOs to redesign our food system for resilience.
Addressing the environmental and social impacts of industrial agriculture has become crucial as global meat consumption continues to rise. Industrial animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector combined and contributes to climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity.
A Tuesday afternoon panel, moderated by Marika Azoff - Corporate Engagement Lead at the Good Food Institute - convened innovators from cultivated, fermentation-derived and ... Read more ...
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Protecting Water, Nature Is Critical for Effective Climate Action - Sustainable Brands (Oct 24, 2024) |
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Oct 24, 2024 · Water and nature must be elevated to the same level of importance as carbon - corporate strategies that fail to account for these interdependencies will not have the necessary impacts.
Fossil-based business models are existentially threatened; and the world’s largest corporations have the resources, capacity for innovation, and global reach to address the long-term effects of these models while creating new business opportunities. The most significant economic opportunity of our generation is the transition to a lower-carbon, nature-positive and regenerative future - and integrating biodiversity targets based on a thorough understanding of our impacts on the natural world is ... Read more ...
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Report: Massive Challenges, Opportunities in Adapting Cities to Climate Change - Sustainable Brands (Oct 23, 2024) |
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Oct 23, 2024 · Study reveals climate-related concerns of residents of 10 major cities, and provides case studies and actionable strategies for increasing urban climate resilience.
August 2024 was the hottest month on record, capping Earth’s hottest summer since global records began in 1880. Heat stress is now the leading cause of weather-related deaths around the world, according to the World Health Organization; and with the typical “concrete jungle” characterized by a lack of green space and a predominance of concrete structures and streets that absorb heat, urban communities are disproportionately affected.
A growing number of organizations are working to address this by increasing ... Read more ...
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How to take Scope 3 Emissions from Data to Action - Sustainable Brands (Oct 17, 2024) |
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Oct 17, 2024 · For Scope 3 to be monitored successfully, Scope 1 and 2 emissions reporting must be mandated across all businesses and suppliers, no matter their size.
Scope 3 inventories have become an essential tool for organisations that are looking to take meaningful action to improve the environmental impact of their business. It can sometimes feel that sustainability efforts are a drop in the ocean; however, prioritising sustainability shows the wider business landscape a commitment to being both ethical and values-led. As more companies - with those in the IT Channel no exception - get further into their sustainability journeys, making more ethical choices and aligning on who they ... Read more ...
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Monitoring Media: Reining in the Broader Impacts of Brand Communications - Sustainable Brands (Oct 17, 2024) |
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Oct 17, 2024 · We talk a lot about the content of brand communications - but what about the other ways marketing and advertising creates social and environmental impacts? A variety of experts dove deeper at SB’24 San Diego this week.
A big topic for the Sustainable Brands® community is increasing the effectiveness of marketing and advertising communications in helping drive more sustainable consumer habits and lifestyles. But what about the other social and environmental impacts of corporate communications? Two rich discussions at SB’24 San Diego this week dove deeper.
The Sphere in Las Vegas has the world’s largest outdoor advertising digital LED screen | Image credit: Shelby L. ... Read more ...
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First US Nature-Based Carbon Credit Auction Coming in 2025 - Sustainable Brands (Oct 15, 2024) |
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Oct 15, 2024 · The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction will offer companies a transparent and streamlined way to secure high-quality carbon credits while supporting rural communities and family forest owners.
This week, the American Forest Foundation (AFF) announced it will hold the first auction for carbon credits for its Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCP) in February 2025.
The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction - the first of its kind for a US nature-based carbon project - will offer buyers a transparent and streamlined way to secure high-quality carbon credits while supporting rural communities and family forest owners.
More companies than ever are working to ... Read more ...
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More Travel Offerings Highlighting Interinfluence of Climate Change and Tourism - Sustainable Brands (Oct 14, 2024) |
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Oct 14, 2024 · Climate-focused tour operators are learning to balance bringing travelers to fragile destinations to learn about the effects of climate change while not exacerbating the negative impacts of the tourism industry.
Walking across a sea-level glacier in Iceland, a tour guide points out how the landscape has changed in recent years. The population of cheeky puffins on a cliff’s edge has dropped by 20 percent since the start of the century due to rising ocean temperatures, the guide notes. Over a meal with fellow travelers that same day, the conversation turns to alternative energy sources helping the country curb its environmental footprint - a pertinent topic, given the meal takes ... Read more ...
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New Framework Designed to Embed Climate Resilience Into Urban Areas - Sustainable Brands (Oct 13, 2024) |
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Oct 13, 2024 · Neighbourhood Futures sets out five complementary capacities to help generate tailored, scalable strategies for climate resilience and health equity in cities.
Global architecture, engineering and sustainability consultancy Ramboll and UK nonprofit Impact on Urban Health have launched Neighbourhood Futures - a framework designed to embed climate resilience and health equity into urban areas.
August 2024 was the hottest month on record, capping Earth’s hottest summer since global records began in 1880 - according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Heat stress is now the leading cause of weather-related deaths around the world, according to the ... Read more ...
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Climate Uneducation in the US, Part 3: Colleges, Universities Need Academic Advisors - Sustainable Brands (Oct 10, 2024) |
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Oct 10, 2024 · It would make sense for something that has become universally pertinent to already be incorporated into all disciplines. Right?
In parts one and two of this four-part series, we examined how climate change is being taught, or not, in US primary and high schools. Here, we dig into our country’s post-secondary education system.
Sadly, but unsurprisingly, too many US colleges and universities also score in the lower percentiles when it comes to holistic instruction on the topic of human-induced climate change - not only examining its effects and what students can do to help fight them, but also industry’s role in the crisis.
It would be easy to assume that something ... Read more ...
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