Good On You, the leading sustainability assessment platform for the fashion industry, and Farfetch, the luxury e-commerce platform, have teamed up to create “Good Measures”, a platform dedicated to helping companies in the fashion sector improve their sustainability practices in line with their specific characteristics and circumstances.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday, June 24, to overturn Roe v. Wade, half a century old, which guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion throughout the country. This is a “huge blow to women’s rights and gender equality”, said the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, in a statement.
High man-made emissions are leading to rising sea levels, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity and more frequent extreme weather events. On the agenda are global actions to protect the oceans, an agreement on the high seas, seabed mining and climate change.
Until now, research aimed at making food production more sustainable has tended to focus on comparing plant-based and meat-based diets. A recent study by scientists at the University of Sydney shows that we urgently need to add the local dimension, as transporting food from its place of production to our plates generates 20% of food-related CO2 emissions.
On June 22, Zero Waste France filed a complaint against sneaker and sportswear brands Adidas and New Balance. She accuses them of greenwashing, citing the French Consumer Code, which prohibits misleading commercial practices. More and more advertisements use a whole range of clever tactics to convince us that the products they sell are good for the planet, often to no avail.
A new OECD study shows that, in the absence of bold new policies, global plastic consumption is set to generate three times as much waste by 2060. Plastic is already everywhere, in oceans, rivers, soil and even in our bodies. We need to find solutions to drastically reduce our consumption, but also improve collection and recycling.
The Love Island reality show, which scores high with young viewers, has an official app enabling viewers to buy beauty and fashion items worn by the contestants. After being heavily criticized for promoting fast fashion brands, the show’s producer recently announced a partnership with eBay to encourage second-hand shopping.
The intense heat wave, particularly early and unprecedented for this time of year, is the result of a phenomenon known as the “heat plume”, which brings hot, dry air carried by southerly winds up towards Europe. According to Christophe Cassou, climatologist and co-author of the 6th IPCC report, this is not a good sign, and he warns against accelerating global warming.
The Danish mobile app “Too Good to Go”, launched in 2015 to combat food waste, is launching an educational project, “Mon école anti-gaspi”, aimed at elementary school children. Tested for eight months in nine schools with around 600 pupils, this initiative aims to raise awareness and educate children about food waste, encouraging them to adopt the right reflexes from an early age.
On Wednesday, the National Council adopted an indirect counter-proposal to the glacier initiative by 134 votes to 56. Both the initiative and the counter-project have the same objective: to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. The initiators are calling for a ban on fossil fuels such as oil, gas, petrol and diesel. For the National it’s too extreme.
