Insight Ecovadis Platinum: Sustainability Rating ResultsSustainability Committing to sustainability entails, for a company, having clear and measurable targets going forward over time. This means having monitoring tools and being audited by third-party entities which strictly certify its progress from the standpoint of environmental, social and governance performance. Like EcoVadis, the international rating agency behind the first platform in the world for...
Insight Fedrigoni for people. Dream to the great with Inspiring Girls Sustainability “By age 12, 50% of girls aspire to stereotypical gender roles. How can this be possible when the world is so full of outstanding female role models?” These are the words of Miriam González Durántez, founder of Inspiring Girls, the international nonprofit organization that supports female empowerment and the role of women in the society...
Insight Greenwashing, how to detect it Sustainability Nowadays, the quest for a good green reputation drives companies to highlight their sustainability features in communication and marketing, although in many cases this occurs in unclear and not fully transparent fashion. Thus, specific claims can be misleading, and it turns out difficult to disentangle between greenwashing and reliable statements. Came into being in 1983...
Insight Pre- and post-consumer waste: a different impact Sustainability Measuring the life-cycle environment footprint of a product is quite crucial for companies committed to circular economy principles. When it comes to the carbon footprint of products with recycled content two definitions usually spring to mind: pre-consumer waste recycling (PRE-cw); and post- consumer waste recycling (PCW). The former are the discarded or unused material that...
Insight CO2 offsetting, the pathways to carbon neutrality Sustainability Absorbing all the CO2 we are globally releasing, 1.6 billion hectares of land would require to be replanted, an amount equal to 5 times the size of India. Yet there is not enough land to do so; to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, we must first reduce CO2 emissions and, ultimately, offset incompressible ones (latest...
Insight SCIENCE BASED TARGETS INITIATIVE (SBTi): STANDARDS AND COLLABORATION TO REDUCE CO₂ EMISSIONS Sustainability The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a partnership promoted by the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resource Institute (WRI), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and WWF. Created to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement, it was signed by member states at COP21 (Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention...