Sustainability

[New] Can Packaging is projected to produce sales of approximately €23 million or $27 million in 2020 and provides sustainable paperboard packaging to a number of large consumer food brands distributed across Europe.
[New] Industry leaders can join the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action that calls for net-zero emissions by 2050, as well as the Conscious Fashion Campaign, which works with global leaders to achieve Sustainable Development goals.
The UN remains committed to the existing timeline of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end global poverty in all its forms and to reduce inequality within every country by 2030.
New investment of $350 billion a year in sustainable food and land use systems could create as many as 120 million new jobs and unlock up to $4.5 trillion in new business opportunities by 2030.
More sustainable ocean management and fishing could open up $40 billion of business opportunities in the maritime sector, including through the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence.
The Trust Protocol will support US cotton growers in meeting 2025 sustainable growing goals - that include a 13% decrease in land use, a 50% cut in soil loss, an 18% decline in water use, a 15% decline in energy use, a 39% cut in greenhouse gas emissions and a 30% increase in soil carbon.
With the right social protection policies and long-term investments to build sustainable and resilient food systems, governments can not only avert a COVID-19 hunger crisis, but put the UN goal to end hunger by 2030 back on track.
Achieving aviation emissions at or below 2005 levels in 2050 will require contributions from all parts of the aviation sector, including from new technologies and aircraft design, improved air space management, airlines operation, and use of sustainable fuels.
We can expect the demand for sustainable packaging solutions to surge over the next five years as more and more organisations are recognising that incorporating a sustainable packaging design will welcome the reduction in overall carbon footprint figures.
The world is changing rapidly and is faced with significant challenges in achieving the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and its goals by 2030.
If current trends did not improve, the Sustainable Development Goal 2 - eradicating world hunger, food insecurity, and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 - would be not be reached.
Even without the negative effects of COVID-19, SOFI insists that the world is not on track to achieve the Zero Hunger by 2030 target of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.
Total final energy demand in aviation in 2050 is reduced by 8%, and total final demand for liquid jet fuel in that year declines by more than 50 Mtoe, or about 15% of 2019 consumption, compared with the Sustainable Development Scenario.
CO2 capture would increase by 50% to around 7.5 GtCO2 per year in 2050, while almost 90 new bioenergy plants equipped with CO2 capture and storage would be needed each year, nearly three times as much as the capacity projected in the Sustainable Development Scenario.
The world was off track in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, even before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, but can get back on course by increasing investment in public services, showing solidarity on financing, and reshaping how people work, learn, live and consume.
The continued commitment to a net-zero emissions trajectory will be critical to the UK's economic and environmental wellbeing in the coming years, including not only sustainable growth but also cities where we can move and breathe and ecosystems which are robust and fruitful.
Second-quarter gold cost of sales per ounce are expected to be 4% to 6% higher, total cash costs per ounce are expected to be 2% to 4% higher and gold all - in sustaining costs per ounce are expected to be 7% to 9% higher, respectively, than the first quarter of 2020.
The IMF expects a global contraction of 4.9% in 2020, but even then, the UK is underperforming - the OECD expects the UK to sustain the most economic damage of all developed markets in 2020 with an economic contraction of 11.5%.
238 million households will need to gain electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and island nations by 2030 for the achievement of universal access - as outlined by Sustainable Development Goal 7.
The European Commission recently proposed to make 2021 the year of rail and rightfully insists the shift to rail will be a key driver for a more sustainable mobility system.

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Last updated: 09 August 2020