sustainability

New ESRS standards: European sustainability towards simplification

New ESRS standards: European sustainability towards simplification

The process of structuring European sustainability reporting has recently taken a decisive step forward: on June 3, the public consultation phase on the simplified version of the ESRS reporting stan...

Michele Merola: “Sustainability in cosmetics is not just for show”

Michele Merola: “Sustainability in cosmetics is not just for show”

This article is part of our Beauty and Cosmetics feature: discover it here A varnished wooden cap with an aluminium screw – not FSC-certified, non-separable at the end of its life, and imposs...

The new era of beauty: from volume to (sustainable) value

The new era of beauty: from volume to (sustainable) value

This article is part of our Beauty and Cosmetics feature: discover it here After a period of intense dynamism, momentum in the beauty sector is beginning to slow, prompting brands to seek new growt...

Organic ingredients, green chemistry, transparency: the future of cosmetics for COSMOS

Organic ingredients, green chemistry, transparency: the future of cosmetics for COSMOS

This article is part of our Beauty and Cosmetics feature: discover it here The beauty industry results in a significant environmental footprint: it accounts for 2.2% of global industrial carbon emi...

CSRD, survey: 9 out of 10 companies disclose sustainability data even without legal obligations

CSRD, survey: 9 out of 10 companies disclose sustainability data even without legal obligations

Since March 18, the new version of the CSRD, watered down following the approval of the Omnibus I package, has been published in the European Gazette. It now awaits its transposition by EU member st...

Valerie Langer: Changing a supply chain is difficult but possible, together

Valerie Langer: Changing a supply chain is difficult but possible, together

At twenty-five years old, Valerie Langer lived in a village of a thousand people on the edge of a Canadian forest, organising road blockades to stop logging trucks. It was the late 1980s, and Clayoq...

Omnibus I, green light from the European Parliament: EU sustainability and democracy at risk

Omnibus I, green light from the European Parliament: EU sustainability and democracy at risk

From Brussels - On Thursday 13 November, the European Parliament green-lit Omnibus I, the legislative package pushed by the European Commission with the avowed purpose of “simplifying” t...

How Companies Can Achieve Equality and Inclusion

How Companies Can Achieve Equality and Inclusion

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano ‘If a company wants to be able to compete in an international market, it has to think about ...

CSRD and small business, somewhere between fears and a desire to grow

CSRD and small business, somewhere between fears and a desire to grow

The countdown has begun: even small and medium-sized businesses will have to apply sustainability reporting, just as large companies have already been doing for some time. They are going to have to ...

CSDDD, agreement reached on the sustainability due diligence of businesses

CSDDD, agreement reached on the sustainability due diligence of businesses

On March 15, ambassadors from European Union member states gathered at the COREPER Permanent Representatives Committee voted in favor of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)....

Product sustainability leadership should embrace digital sustainability as well

Product sustainability leadership should embrace digital sustainability as well

Thanks to a growing body of research, we start to have a much better understanding of the environmental footprint of digital services, spanning data centres that host them, networks that carry them ...