Global Stories

The food and Beverages industry has been often criticised for generating excessive packaging plastic waste in the ecosystem. The companies of the industry are blamed with not taking enough responsibility for the waste that is generated because of them, causing such waste to get accumulated in the eco-sensitive regions such as the oceans. In...

L’Oréal Paris announces the launch of Stand Up, its International bystander intervention training programme against street harassment. From colleges to public transport to markets to online spaces, Stand Up will grow a community of 1 million upstanders, trained in the 5D's: Direct, Delegate, Document, Distract, Delay, the expert-approved bystander intervention training programme pioneered by...

The Volkswagen Group is one of the leading multi-brand groups in the automotive industry. It develops vehicles and components for the Group’s brands, and also produces and sells vehicles – in particular passenger cars and light commercial vehicles – under the Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands. The Volkswagen Group was the first...

Recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread socio-economic impacts and disruptions across Asia-Pacific, high-level officials called for a rethink on the future development of sustainable transport connectivity and mobility in the region at the sixth session of the Committee on Transport today. Convened by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and...

Over 650 million people live in extreme poverty, all over the world. More than 1.5 billion people lack access to banking and financial services. In fact, about 617 million youth lack basic mathematics and literacy skills. Such a gap has led to inequitable development of people across the world. Technology is an integral part of...

Seiko Epson Corporation, widely known as Epson, has earned a platinum rating for sustainability from France-based EcoVadis. The platinum rating, which was established in 2020, indicates that Epson was ranked among the top 1% of companies in the industry. Epson had received a gold rating the previous three years. Gold is awarded to companies...

The biennial report, Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR), published by UK-based public health agency Knowledge Action Change, finds that currently there are nine Safer Nicotine Products (SNPs) users for every 100 smokers globally, most of whom live in high-income countries. The India section of the global report states policy reforms...

Sysco Corporation, a global foodservice distribution company, has published its 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, documenting the company’s progress toward its 2025 CSR goals and demonstrating its “Leadership In Extraordinary Times.” Sysco’s industry-leading CSR strategy sets a clear path for the future and demonstrates the company’s enduring commitment to caring for people, sourcing products...

Aspire Impact, a social enterprise focussed on leadership and ecosystem development in the social and environmental impact space has announced its flagship Impact Future Project (IFP) to be launched at the Sankalp Global Summit 2020. What is Impact Future Project? Impact Future Project is a thought leadership platform which brings together over 250 business and investment...

Eminent business leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region have expressed strong support for multilateralism and regional cooperation as well as increased public-private partnerships to build back better and more sustainably. They also underscored that as countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic impacts, this is no time for nationalism and protectionism, at the Asia-Pacific Business...

LanzaTech, Total and L’Oréal have together premiered the world’s first sustainable packaging made from captured and recycled carbon emissions. The successful conversion process takes place in three steps: LanzaTech captures industrial carbon emissions and converts them into ethanol using a unique biological process. Total, thanks to an innovative dehydration process jointly developed with IFP Axens,...

The last year has seen an incredible and exponential uptick in global demand for sustainable funds. Inflows, having already shattered records in 2019, grew tenfold in the last twelve months. Unfortunately, non-financial data has failed to keep investors informed of the true impact of those funds. To address this alarming trend, Util has unveiled...