This week: Isabella Tonaco, vice-president for strategy execution and marketing, renewable polymers and chemicals at Neste, and Mezbah Sabur, founder of Circularise, talk with Innovation Forum's Toby Webb about the two companies’ partnership to establish digital solutions for a transparent and traceable chemistry value chain. They discuss how blockchain transparency can counter challenges in mass balance monitoring and share what sustainable chemistry at scale might look like.
Plus: insight from Patrick Houdry at Airbus, Eloisa Menguzzo from Dutch pension sector non-profit PGGM and Innovation Forum senior associate Peter Stanbury, speaking with Ian Welsh at Innovation Forum's recent sustainable landscapes and commodities conference in Amsterdam.
And: Lula da Silva's strong commitments to end Amazon deforestation at COP27; apparel brands pledged for low-carbon alternative fibres in initiative from Canopy; corporate net zero targets will require doubling of current pace of change, says Accenture; and, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Changing Markets Foundation report highlights the scale of meat and dairy farming emissions, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
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Weekly briefing: What to expect at Asia-Pacific Climate Week
Weekly podcast – Live from the conference: the future of climate action and sustainable commodities
Sustainable plastics and packaging: innovations and challenges ahead
Monday briefing: how far are we from meeting the Paris Agreement goals?
Weekly podcast – Landscape collaboration to drive progress towards sustainable land use
Re-evaluating the cost of food
From nature risk to resilience: rethinking corporate sustainability
Human rights in the forest: How REDD+ projects strengthen human rights in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and local communities
How climate change is impacting women farmers
Delivering long-term farm resilience through agroforestry
Monday briefing: a reality check on Paris progress
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
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