This week: Rashyid Anwarudin, chief sustainability officer at Sime Darby Plantation, talks with Ian Welsh about why developing truly responsible commodity sourcing supply chains means seeking out labour rights breaches and remediating them. They discuss Sime Darby Plantation’s strategies to ensure workers are treated ethically including responsible recruitment procedures and grievance mechanisms.
Plus: further reflections from the recent sustainable apparel and textiles conference in Amsterdam with Ola Bakowska from Circle Economy, Patagonia's Nick Allen and Umer Rehman from Soorty Enterprises.
And, renewables to be the biggest source of the world's electricity, says the International Energy Agency; Circle Economy’s new report shows economical potential for the global south in adopting a circular approach; World Green Building Council shares how companies can make the transition into circular design, end of life disassembly and recycling materials; and, Ecuador closes $1.63bn debt-for-nature financing facility, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
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Adaptation to Regulation: a test of corporate resilience under incoming EUDR, CS3D and CSRD regulation
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?
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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
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Weekly podcast – Agriculture from above: remote sensing's role in farming
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