Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast ▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/01/nestle-slavery-thailand-fighting-child-labour-lawsuit-ivory-coast
Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast ▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/01/nestle-slavery-thailand-fighting-child-labour-lawsuit-ivory-coast
Why is corporate America picking wind power over solar? | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/dec/21/solar-wind-energy-renewables-google-microsoft-amazon?CMP=share_btn_tw
Wind energy has historically been much cheaper than solar, making it a more attractive option, especially when energy can be a major expense for a company. As more businesses come under pressure from their customers, investors or government regulators to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and help rein in global warming, they will be looking for low-carbon energy that can compete with the price of coal and natural gas.
Rise of the #drones: from policing the streets to painting your house
With automation and artificial intelligence the delivery of parcels is only the tip of the iceberg for the next generation of drones
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/19/rise-of-the-drones-from-policing-the-streets-to-painting-your-house?CMP
Floating homes: a solution to flooding, crowded cities and unaffordable housing
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/29/floating-homes-architecture-build-water-overcrowding-cities-unaffordabl
Architects and city planners across the world are starting to look beyond the traditional confines of the city, towards building on water as one of the answers to reducing inner-city population density and also developing flood-resilient designs. Global damage to cities from flooding could amount to $1tn a year by 2050 if no action is taken, according to a World Bank report.
Floating architecture is nothing new. Traditional floating villages are common in deltas and along the Mekong river in south-east Asia. But integrating age-old designs into a modern city is a different matter entirely.
Inside big pharma’s fight to block recreational marijuana | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/oct/22/recreational-marijuana-legalization-big-business
Les lobbys opposés au #cannabis récréatif : les big pharma et les producteurs d’alcool... — Permalink
Big brands like Unilever aren’t the answer to helping Africa’s farmers | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/aug/31/unilever-africa-farmers-inclusive-business-agrifood-development
Linking low-income communities to the supply chains of large corporations - so-called inclusive business - has been a major trend over the past decade.
In food and agriculture, this means including poor farmers in the supply chains of food manufacturers and retailers, rather than a traditional trade via middlemen. There’s strong logic, given that there are more than half a billion small farm households around the developing world. Farmers get access to higher value markets. Food businesses get access to new sources of supply. Donors and governments get a better development bang from trade and investment.
But despite a huge and growing portfolio of successful pilot projects, there is evidence that under many circumstances inclusive business may struggle to get to scale. It can be a poor match to the realities of both farmers as suppliers and the businesses as buyers.
US investors ploughing billions into palm oil, claims report | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/26/palm-oil-us-investors-deforestation-land-grabs-pension-funds-banks-fore
Some of the US’ leading institutional investors, including pension funds, are potentially fuelling environmental and social harm by ploughing billions of dollars into the palm oil industry through opaque financial arrangements, a new report claims.
Large investment firms are lagging behind commitments made by consumer brands such as Nestlé, Unilever and McDonald’s by failing to identify whether they are investing in palm oil, which palm oil companies they are involved with, or to hold them accountable over deforestation and land grabbing, the Friends of the Earth US (FoE) report states.
How #air #pollution affects your health - infographic
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/05/how-air-pollution-affects-your-health-infographic
Air pollution from traffic and industry is leading to the premature death of more than three million people a year. Globally, that’s more than malaria and HIV/Aids combined.