GreenBiz
MAY 12, 2020
How cosmetics retailer Lush is making purposeful profit through circularity. But the accelerated growth of the retail industry has come at a cost. With a growing range of naked products came an opportunity to evolve a new retail experience with the rollout of Naked Shops in Milan, Berlin, Hong Kong and Manchester. Katrina Shum.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
The government also sometimes wrongly focusses on the biggest emitters when SMEs are younger and more agile. That old cliché that ‘what gets measured gets done’ is not entirely true, but governments are obsessed with proving their impact and this gets in the way of real action. SMEs can’t make a difference.
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Smart Energy International
JANUARY 13, 2023
2023 will be the year that retailers and forecourt sites evaluate the cost of charging. Not since the 2008 recession has overheads and the bottom line been under threat from rising operating costs, reduced demand from consumers to spend and supply chain challenges. Plan B – backup batteries to make up for costly charging.
Business Green
JULY 20, 2021
Analysis of the shipping impact of major US retailers finds 15 companies are responsible for as much sulphur oxide, nitrous oxide, and particulate matter pollution as tens of millions of vehicles. International shipping is big business. We are demanding that these practices change.".
Business Green
JANUARY 19, 2021
But if I think back to the 2008 global financial crisis, the conversations then were very different to the conversations we're having now. ESG (environmental, social, governance) concerns used to be mainly discussed in terms of the 'E' but this year it's become very clear that the social aspect is just as important.
Business Green
JUNE 22, 2022
Highly commended: NatWest Group - Retail Climate Team. Pete Betts, CBE, has been a career civil servant and climate diplomat, who for 10 critical years from 2008 to 2018 worked as Director of International Climate Change for the UK government, while also leading a team to scale up of public and private climate finance in developing countries.
Low Impact
DECEMBER 20, 2020
I was asked to do this in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, when we came 2 hours away from the cash machines being turned off – which isn’t a particularly resilient system. When you consider that only 18% of retail rents are being paid on time, you realise that there’s a crisis. Because they can’t. Thanks Chris.
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