Sustainability

Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS is opening Footprint Festival
Climate shocks. Energy costs. Supply chain volatility. Geopolitical disruption. These aren’t abstract risks — they’re hitting your margins, your sourcing and your strategy right now. Charles is one of the world’s leading voices on food systems and climate policy, Director…
Back to the future on food regulations
Plans for the UK to realign with EU food laws will reduce import costs but leave a raft of unanswered questions including over the future for cell-cultivated meat.
Can food waste reduction get back on track?
A 2030 target to cut food waste by 50% is in danger of being missed. Government and businesses need to seize the opportunity to turn things around.
IGD says dietary change needed to meet climate goals
IGD warns that dietary change will be essential if the UK is to meet its climate targets. New research highlights the role of food choices in reducing emissions and building a sustainable food system
The many elements of sustainability: product, packaging, supply chain, and diligence – can everything be achieved?
As 2023 comes to an end, DWF’s Dominic Watkins, Global Head of Consumer Sector, and Kirsty Poots, Solicitor, look at key outcomes of COP 28, as well as recent developments in the EU and UK. With the close of COP28 in December,…
The Time to Act is Now – the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
This month DWF’s Tracey Groves, Partner and Head of Sustainable Business & ESG, and Nadine Robinson, Director of ESG & Sustainability, unveil how to prepare for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive is…
Sustainability more important than social media to Millennials
Younger consumers are more concerned about ethics, sustainability and product quality than social media presence or new apps, according to research conducted by YouGov and supply chain management firm GT Nexus. The poll of millennials, aged 18 to 34, showed…
Making the most of marketing
JUST THINK about the last big purchase you made and why you chose it – invariably it will lead back to something you’ve read, seen or heard. The same, often subconscious, thinking affects our eating habits and tapping into this…
British businesses making sustainability top priority for 2014
NEW RESEARCH from Lloyds Bank reveals that a quarter of British SMEs plan to make sustainability a top priority for 2014. The research also showed that over half of those surveyed recognise the cost benefits of implementing sustainable business…
International initiative launched to promote sustainable salmon fishing
INDUSTRY LEADERS from the global salmon farming sector yesterday (15TH August) launched a new international initiative to promote sustainable salmon fishing practices. The new Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) brings together 15 of the world’s biggest salmon producers under a…