Inspiring ESG Trends: Europe Retail & e-Commerce (23rd March)

• Bonprix (IT) plans to make 70% of its products sustainable by 2025 and 100% by 2030.
• Co-op (UK) pledges to achieve a 90% reduction in its carbon footprint by 2030.
• L’ORéAL (FR) shares 95% of its ingredients will be derived from renewable plant sources, abundant minerals, or circular processes by 2030.
• Ocado (UK) overhauls its 530-item own-range catalogue to remove millions of packing components and save 27 tons of plastic per year.
• Superdry (UK) accelerates organic cotton targets by five years, aiming to produce its pure cotton garments entirely from organic cotton by 2025.
• Zalando (EU) publishes its first Sustainability Progress Report and raises target of GMV generated by sustainable products from 20% to 25% by 2023.

A note from me: In both my day job at Amazon and through my tutoring work with the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL), I regularly come across interesting and inspiring news about the progress Retail companies are making on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) journeys. In an effort to share that knowledge, and grow the list of examples that other professional's like myself benefit from having at their finger tips, I thought I'd try out a regular 'News you can use' article here on LinkedIn. I'm going to run this article series for a month and rely on your feedback as to whether this is valuable/ you would like me to continue. Please also add to this list if there is any positive news you're seeing!