Can safety shoes be produced sustainably? EMMA Footwear Case Study

Emma Safety Footwear

Sustainable footwear is here, thanks to EMMA! As the global leader in safety footwear for over 90 years, EMMA Safety Footwear understands that the footwear industry accounts for 1.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. They can take the lead to produce sustainable footwear, even for protective safety shoes! They took the first step to replacing […]

How Much Of My Emissions Do I Need To Offset?

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**This article was written in collaboration with our offsetting partner ClimateSeed. Let’s do a quick recap on carbon offsetting first.  According to IPCC, carbon offsetting is any activity that compensates for the emissions of CO2 or other greenhouse gasses (measured in CO2-eq) by providing an emission reduction elsewhere.  Companies can purchase carbon credits* to compensate […]

How Supply Chain Data Helps Make the Complex Fashion Industry Less Complex

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 With over 10 years of experience in the fashion industry Jolanda Kooi, Co-Founder of tex.tracer is the perfect person to speak to help with this issue. She talks us through how to best collect supply chain data in the fashion industry and help move the sustainable transition forward. In the episode: Why fashion supply […]

How To Select High-Standard Carbon Offsetting Projects

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*This guest article was written by our carbon offsetting partner ClimateSeed. Carbon offsetting has become a well-known term by now. But that doesn’t mean it’s always clear how it actually works. This article will guide you in selecting high-quality carbon offsetting projects that fit your business: Which offset projects can you choose from? What criteria […]

How To Tackle SDG’s and Create A Killer Sustainability Report: Practical Examples

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 With her extensive work in the field of translating governmental initiatives to sustainability action plans, Tuuli-Anna Tiuttu CEO of SDG Monitor is the perfect person to provide the tips and tricks on this topic.  In the episode: The UN SDG’s explained; How can your company apply them?; How to translate data into stories; And […]

4 Steps To Create the Foundation for Credible Sustainability Reporting

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Sustainability reporting is no joke. Companies often struggle to collect the right data and create concise and focused reporting on their sustainability matters. We teamed up with our implementation partner Nexio Projects on how you can tackle that big pool of sustainability data in your company. And turn it into high-quality sustainability reporting. Step 1. […]

From Information to Impact: How Sustainability Reports Can Stand Out.

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 In the episode: What are the first steps to take in building an impact reduction strategy;  How to create a killer sustainability report;   And why quality data is better than more data. Check out more on our partner Nexio Projects here. Keep update with our guests Cesar Carreño-Chasin and Zuzana Struharova via LinkedIn. And […]

5 Key Questions to Get Started With Biodiversity and Business

Biodiversity is a hot topic for businesses. Companies have a growing awareness of their relation with ecosystems: they have an impact on ecosystems and they are dependent on resources from those ecosystems. We also see more and more organizations ‘quantify’ their biodiversity impacts enabling them to start managing the impact. But the domain is also […]

4 Arguments Against Climate Action – And How To Counter them!

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 We know these responses to sustainable action- and they are understandable. Because it’s not an easy peasy lemon squeezy kind of responsibility we’re talking about here. Yet- in saving our planet, these responses only cause delays in sustainable action. So, it’s crucial we understand them & know how to provide hope. We give you […]