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🌱 COP26: Catch Up With Week 1

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🌱 COP26: Catch Up With Week 1

Featuring When in Rome, DAME, Sipsmith and more...

Nov 5, 2021
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🌱 COP26: Catch Up With Week 1

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Happy Friday!

This week we cover:

  • Keep Up with COP26: Week 1

  • Meet the Knowvember Brands: When in Rome and DAME.

  • In case you missed it: How Sipsmith's 5-part plan includes a 46% emissions reduction target, featuring Ellie Stirk (Sustainability Lead at Sipsmith).


> Good News This Week

🎯 Berczy Hard Seltzer are climate neutral. They’ve worked with ClimatePartner to measure emissions from their entire supply chain. 

🎯 UNLESS Collective launched, aiming to be the first streetwear brand whose products leave zero waste at their end of life. 

⭐️ Luxury fashion brand Chloé became the first luxury Maison to certify as a B Corporation. 

⭐️ Iceland has pledged to become plastic neutral with launch of a new plastic recovery programme. It’s partnering with Seven Clean Seas to collect the equivalent to their plastic footprint. However, this comes as they admitted that they may not achieve their target of eliminating plastic from own-label packaging by the end of 2023.

⭐️ Waitrose announced that its trialling wirelessly charged electric delivery vans in London, in a bid to be at the forefront of ‘green home delivery’. 

⭐️ Unilever brand Knorr announced it will launch 50 regenerative agriculture projects across the world, aiming to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and water usage of each project by 30%. This investment stems from their €1 billion Climate and Nature Fund.

⭐️ Allbirds made its stock market debut on Wednesday. Founded in 2015, Allbirds said it would tap the public markets through what it described a "sustainable public equity offering" as an environmental, social and governance, or ESG, company. Valuation is now above $4 billion. 

> Click on each link to read more.


> Quick Take

Catch Up With COP26: Week 1

There’s lots of news surrounding COP26. Like, lots. So, we’ve organised a few of our favourite bits of news for you, making it easier than ever to keep up.

Signs of progress:

  • World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030

  • UK firms forced to show how they will hit net zero

  • India’s COP26 climate pledges help to push warming projections below two degrees, study shows

  • Methane limits could be COP26's real legacy

  • Amount of finance committed to achieving 1.5°C now at scale needed to deliver the transition

  • UK’s flagship green investment programme receives £66 million funding increase

  • COP26 sees UK businesses lead the world in climate change commitments. Over 2,000 small businesses from across the UK have pledged to reduce their emissions and join the Race to Zero through the Together For Our Planet Business Climate Leaders campaign.

What’s caught our eye:

  • 'Two degrees is a death sentence' for island nations - Barbados PM Mia Mottley

  • Cop26: Greta Thunberg joins Emma Watson on green discussion panel

  • COP26 interview: Gonzalo Muñoz, UN climate champion for business

  • How can we go faster to net zero? - PwC

  • Catch up: FSB Small Business Virtual Conference: The Journey to Net Zero

  • Catch up: ACCELERATING THE DELIVERY ON NET-ZERO COMMITMENTS

We’re not the only ways you can keep up. We also recommend checking out:

  • COP26 Official Outcomes

  • Sweep’s The HorosCOP26

  • CarbonCloud’s CEO David Bryngelsson is posting a daily video summary to their LinkedIn page every day.

What’s coming up? COP26 Calendar: 40 events next week

Missed our COP26 Events calendar? All online, mostly free, and all sure to inspire you. There are 40 events in the next week, and we’ve recently added 16 new events for you to check out.

A few recommendations:

  • Mobilising systems-change for a regenerative future - 6/11/2021 at 10:00 - Ecosia - Link Here.

  • Climate resilience is business resilience - 7/11/2021 at 08:30 - High Level Champion Race to Resilience Team and CLG UK-Europe - Link Here.

  • All in for 1.5ºC: How are corporate leaders going to halve emissions by 2030? - 7/11/2021 at 10:00 - We Mean Business Coalition and Boston Consulting Group - Link Here.

  • Driving demand for climate neutral materials and products - 9/11/2021 at 10:00 - Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership - Link Here.

  • Climate Con 2021 (Event Series) - 10/11/2021 at 17:00 - - My Climate Journey - The Regenerates - Link Here.

  • The Burning Issue? Waste, Climate, Health and Development - 11/11/2021 at 10:00 - WasteAid and Bright Blue - Link Here.

  • Fix the economy to fix climate change: the role of the circular economy - 11/11/2021 at 14:00 - Ellen MacArthur - Link Here.

Keen to share your perspective of progress at COP26, to be featured on Following the Footprints? Email info@followingthefootprints.com.

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> Brand Spotlight - in partnership with Knowvember

⚡️ Meet the Knowvember Brands: When in Rome

Mission: 39% of the wine industry’s emissions globally are caused by single use glass bottles. All of When in Rome’s wines are sold in eco-friendly packaging that generates up to 10x less CO2 than single use glass bottles. We overtly state the climate footprint of each of our wines on the packaging for maximum transparency.

Targets: Having only just very recently calculated the footprint of our products, WiR is in the process of establishing realistic targets. Our initial analysis of the climate impact of our supply chain in particular, suggests there is a large scope to further reduce our emissions. We do know however that we prefer to concentrate on emissions reduction as opposed to aiming for net zero, as we believe this is the most transparent approach.

When in Rome’s Product Breakdown

We chatted to When in Rome about their innovative approach to packaging, and why they’re proud to be part of the Knowvember campaign.

Read the full interview for more:

Following the Footprints
⚡️ Meet the Knowvember Brands: When in Rome
As part of our partnership with the Knowvember campaign, we’re profiling each of the seven founding brand partners. Taking a stance for climate transparency, each brand knows and shows the climate footprints of their products - making it easier than ever for consumers to make informed and climate conscious choices…
Read more
a year ago · Leone Baron

⚡️ Meet the Knowvember Brands: DAME

Status: Climate Positive

Targets: We are certified Carbon Neutral Plus (offsetting twice as much carbon as we produce), and are planning to be Net Zero by 2030.

DAME’s Product Breakdown.

We chatted to DAME about the savings customers make by switching to DAME products, and what steps they’ll take to achieve their targets.

Read the full interview for more:

Following the Footprints
⚡️ Meet the Knowvember Brands: DAME
As part of our partnership with the Knowvember campaign, we’re profiling each of the seven founding brand partners. Taking a stance for climate transparency, each brand knows and shows the climate footprints of their products - making it easier than ever for consumers to make informed and climate conscious choices…
Read more
a year ago · Leone Baron

> In case you missed it

💥 #8 - Meet the Brands: How Sipsmith's 5-part plan includes a 46% emissions reduction target.

Featuring Ellie Stirk, Sustainability Lead at Sipsmith.

Read the Full Story


> Follow up with…

  1. Article: What Business Needs From COP26 To Deliver Cn Global Climate Goals

  2. Article: Patagonia doesn’t use the word ‘sustainable.’ Here’s why

  3. Article: 7 surprising facts to know about the circular economy for COP26

  4. Guidebook: The 1.5°C Business Playbook: your company’s roadmap for exponential climate action

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