This week: Sabine Schlorke, global manufacturing manager at the International Finance Corporation, talks about how the IFC works with big apparel sector brands in Bangladesh, Vietnam and other countries providing their suppliers with access to development finance.
And, Mark Blick, head of government solutions at Diginex, explains how blockchain can help brands identify where their modern slavery and forced labour risks are – following the relevant data points and ensuring transparency.
Plus: Walmart and green finance, Yum!’s science-based targets, and Adidas’s new single base-material trainer, in the news digest.
Hosted by Ian Welsh
Rethinking textiles: strategies for effective decarbonisation
Monday briefing – EUDR clock is ticking: the need for collaboration, alignment and clarity
Weekly podcast – How US family-owned forests can unlock carbon solutions
Finding the funding for farming with public-private partnerships
Monday briefing – How to break silos for scope 3 emissions reduction
Weekly podcast – How to scale regenerative agriculture with the right data
From deforestation to regeneration: navigating sustainable land use approaches
Weekly podcast — What’s stopping apparel brands to decarbonise?
What effective stakeholder engagement looks like
Weekly podcast — How to unlock agricultural finance
Satellite to soil: the power of remote sensing in agriculture
Monday briefing – Navigating packaging challenges: evolving regulations, reuse systems and more
Weekly podcast – Landscape approaches in action: aligning stakeholders for sustainable land use
Breaking down sustainable packaging trends
Monday briefing — Are we ready to be EUDR compliant?
Weekly podcast – How corporate comms can be authentic and transparent
What’s the role of recycling in sustainable packaging?
Weekly podcast – Agriculture from above: remote sensing's role in farming
The power of data in food supply chains
Monday briefing – Ready, target, action: business progress in tackling scope 3 emissions
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