Turning rhetoric into action

We are partners with the Responsible Business Summit Europe taking place in London next spring. The event will focus on 'how business can transform and deliver a sustainable future'. On what is the Ethical...

Selling sustainability

I once heard a politician say the public fears change more than death. Few would argue change can be a hard sell. When it comes to tackling the climate crisis, this poses serious questions for social scientist...

Textile giant champions sustainability

Arvind - a global pioneer in sustainable textile manufacturing - announced this week it is joining the Fashion for Good (FFG) initiative. Headquartered in Amsterdam, FFG brings together the biggest names in fa...

2020 stepping stone to sustainability

#EarthDay will mark its 50th birthday in 2020 with a far reaching campaign that will strive to take 'climate action to the next level'. Today's #EarthDay2019 is already well underway but the Earth Day Netwo...

Happy Earth Day 2019

More than one billion people worldwide are expected to participate in #EarthDay today. Led by the Earth Day Network, this year's theme is 'Protect Our Species'. "The unprecedented global destruction and rap...

Life after the #GlobalGoals

The target is to achieve the UN Global Goals - the 'blueprint for a better world' - by 2030. But what happens next? The Resilience Frontiers initiative is taking a holistic approach to identifying innovative s...

Day 4 @ Resilience Frontiers

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, said of the UN Global Goals, they are the 'blueprint for a better world'. The Goals have a completion target of 2030 - but what happens next? The ne...

Day 3 @ Resilience Frontiers

It is the midway point in week one for Resilience Frontiers - a new cross-agency initiative - that is brainstorming how the world can effectively operate beyond 2030. Launched during this week's NAP Expo,...

Day 2 @ Resilience Frontiers

It's the end of day two at the Resilience Frontiers event - just launched at the Korea Global Adaptation week in Songdo, South Korea. Resilience Frontiers is an interagency effort bringing together a diver...

Follow my Amsterdam fashion tour

Amsterdam is establishing itself as the global capital of the burgeoning sustainable fashion industry. I'll be checking out how the city is inspiring this welcome trend over the next couple of days, as I meet ...