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Silence is a climate risk – brands urged to trumpet sustainability progress by ‘greenshouting’
As experts warn that “greenhushing” risks undermining climate progress and enabling misinformation, a new guide calls on companies to “openly, accurately and courageously” talk about their sustainability credentials.
Kalpana Kochhar has been appointed to run South and Southeast Asia for the foundation, whose co-chair Bill Gates recently signalled a shift in focus to human-centric climate investing.
Corporate Responsibility
Shein earns SBTi validation for decarbonisation targets but scrutiny of its core business model persists
The fast fashion giant’s recent efforts to boost its green credentials, including in making new sustainability hires, could be linked to its ambitions to go public, say experts.
Policy & Finance
Trade wars have made Europe and the US ‘higher risk’ markets – and it’s all to do with labour, says LRQA
EB Studio
“Homeshoring”, or moving production back to a company’s home country, to counter geopolitical tensions is driving demand for low-cost migrant workers, raising labour risks in markets once deemed “low risk”, says the global assurance firm.
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