Sustainability Bulletin - 28.03.2022

Dear Friends,

We have prepared a condensed bulletin for you based on news, articles, and developments that recently took place around the globe about Sustainability.

Here’s what happened last week in our Sustainable World;

??First Sustainable Wallets: HELPFUL, in partnership with Railsbank, has launched branded digital wallets that make checkout payments more affordable for businesses and offer a payment method that can save up to 80% on CO2 emissions from each transaction. Read more:?https://ow.ly/1qFE50Ipmmx

?? Sustainability Goals by 2025: Announcing a $5 billion social purpose platform named Mission Every One, Macy’s outlined the contours of its commitment to create positive social change. Through three pillars — people, communities and planet — the retailer will utilize its people’s talents and its heritage to create positive environmental and social impacts by 2025. Read more:?https://ow.ly/ylYm50IpEQ6

?? Sustainability at the Middle East: Six big-name players across the Middle East (STC, e& – the new name of Etisalat – Zain Group, Batelco, du, and Omantel) have made a public pledge to reduce carbon footprints through their operations. Read more:?https://ow.ly/pmkW50IqehT

?? Sustainability Drive: Jungheinrich UK Ltd?echoes this commitment to fight climate change; being among the top 1% for the most sustainable companies worldwide and at the forefront of innovation within the intralogistics industry, with an ambitious determination to become the industry's first fully electric intralogistics supplier. Read more:?https://ow.ly/GqaC50Iqmc3

?? Sustainability Strides: UK industrial thread company?Coats?achieved a 3% reduction in waste in 2021 and said 19% of its sales of premium polyester threads were those made of recycled materials in the year. Read more:?https://ow.ly/qg4i50Irf3n

?? Upcycling and Sustainability Fashion Designers: The hottest fashion designers are turning to the past to create the style of the future. Two Phoenix-based designers, YEK and Samantha Vo, will have their work featured in a new Facebook travel series. Inspired by tradition and fueled by upcycling, their creations bring the past and present together to create the looks of tomorrow. Read more:?https://ow.ly/nYiK50IsUj1

?? Sustainability Report 2021: ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions, has today published its Sustainability Report 2021. In 2021, the Group made a very positive start against its targets in the sustainability program to 2025. Read more:?https://ow.ly/L5cZ50Irhqc

?? Right Release: Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for the die casting industry. The industry is preparing for the future. Growing demand from different sectors goes hand in hand with the need to keep up with new requirements relating to part quality, increasing competition and pricing pressures. Read more:?https://ow.ly/AWmE50Is5vG

?? ?New Sustainability Roadmap: The Singapore Hotel Association (SHA) and Singapore Tourism Board (STB) launched a new hotel sustainability roadmap on Monday (Mar 21), with two key targets for the industry. The first is for hotels in Singapore to commence tracking of emissions by 2023 and reduce emissions by 2030, with a view to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Read more:?https://ow.ly/pfp850Is5e5

?? Latin America Sustainability: BBVA has been recognized as the best bank in Latin America in the "development" category of the sustainability accolades awarded by Latin Trade magazine, in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Read more:?https://ow.ly/evFJ50Is5Hw

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