This week: Peter McAllister, executive director of the Ethical Trading Initiative, explores the complexities of human rights and ethical trade for business in a challenging global environment. He talks about changing costs pressures and evolving regulatory landscapes – including EU human rights due diligence legislation – and the patterns of stakeholder engagement that are emerging.
Plus: PVH pays Haiti garment workers $1m after supplier factory closure; US senators question SHEIN CEO about forced labour ties; Indonesia and Malaysia in talks with EU over new deforestation regulation; and, “forever chemicals” found in Arctic ice posing new risk to wildlife, in the news digest with Bea Stevenson.
And, an update on the upcoming future of climate action and how to tackle scope 3 GHGs virtual conference on 12th-14th June from Innovation Forum's Natasha Bodnar.
Host: Ian Welsh
Weekly podcast – A coffee conundrum: the impact of EUDR
How Cargill future-proofs food systems for good
Monday briefing: doubling down on climate finance at the World Investment Forum
Weekly podcast – Compliance, collaboration and chemical recycling: the future of plastics and packaging
How to measure and track corporate emissions data
Transformation, traceability and transparency: from intention to action
Monday briefing: carbon credit trading on Tokyo Stock Exchange
Is our food undervalued?
Tackling deforestation with carbon markets in Cambodia
Monday briefing: England’s single-use plastics ban explained
Weekly podcast – Delivering future food supply security: a how-to guide
Going the whole hog? Sustainability in the US pork sector
Driving change in fashion: circularity, design innovation and regulation
Weekly briefing: Managing food waste across the supply chain
Weekly podcast – Farmer voice: how brands and buyers can help smallholders and secure supply
Dyeing for change: decarbonising the textiles supply chain
Monday briefing: What to look for at Climate and SDG weeks
Weekly podcast – What good corporate data measurement looks like
Collaboration to drive progress on decarbonising apparel supply chains
The chemical recycling debate: is there a place for chemical recycling in a net zero and circular world?
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