Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Group accelerates industry leadership to be carbon neutral in its operations by 2025 Firmenich, the world's largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company, today releases its annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, detailing the Group's robust ESG performance in Fiscal Year 2021. Building on its leadership in Responsible Business, Firmenich has stepped up progress towards ...
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Bern (ots) - Geochemist Denise Mitrano has found a way to track how micro- and nanoplastic particles spread through the environment. For this work, she is receiving this year's Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Man-made plastic pollutes the environment. When broken down into micro- and nanoparticles, it poses an increasing problem not only for the oceans and their inhabitants, but also ...
New Study: "Autonomy Through Agroecology" UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), United Nations, New York, 23 September 2021. Women Farmers’ Rights And Autonomy Critical For Global Food Security, says Swiss Study Berne |New York, 21 September 2021 - The report "Autonomy Through Agroecology" with case studies of six ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Two-week educational event opens to the public (15-27th September) in White City, with free tickets available at BlueParadox.com SC Johnson, the maker of household consumer brands such as Mr Muscle®, Ecover® and Duck®, is launching The Blue Paradox, an immersive educational experience ...
Zurich (ots/PRNewswire) - Lurra Capital AG, a Swiss-based private capital investment firm, launches The Fynbos, a development located on Upper Bree Street, in the heart of Cape Town. Paul Coelho, Partner of Real Estate at Lurra Capital, led its design transformation into what will be the first biophilic development in Africa. It is named after a distinctive type of vegetation found only on the southern tip of Africa. The ...
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Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Firmenich, the world's largest privately owned fragrance and taste company, has joined the UN Global Compact CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Taskforce, the first-ever global initiative promoting sustainable corporate finance and scalable investments in pursuit of the UN Sustainable ...
Bern, Switzerland (ots) - The exhibition and meeting space "Habitat" of the Wyss Academy for Nature in Bern will newly present the work "Morphologies", which explores the moment of wonder towards nature that is common to art and science. At the same time, the Wyss Academy is addressing a pressing issue in the field of sustainable development: Engaging with people from research, politics, business, and agriculture on four ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Klöckner Pentaplast (kp or the company), a leading global manufacturer of high barrier protective packaging solutions with industry-leading use of recycled content, has been awarded a gold rating by EcoVadis, the independent provider of global sustainability ratings for environmental, social, and ethical performance. The gold rating ranks kp ...
Seattle, WA (ots) - --News Direct-- The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation today announced a suite of new grants supporting the next phase of groundbreaking research to identify naturally heat tolerant corals, accelerate corals’ evolution processes, improve restoration methods, and ultimately slow the decline of coral reefs. Coral reefs sustain more than a quarter of all marine life and drive $2.7 trillion dollars in ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - In the wake of the International Day for Biological Diversity, Moët Hennessy, world leader of high-quality wine and spirits, is thrilled to announce it is joining the Pour une Agriculture du Vivant (PADV) movement. This partnership is born from a shared vision and desire to promote and develop sustainable agricultural and winemaking practices ...
Press Release SPAIN BANS ANY NEW HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION PROJECT BY LAW A clear step forward in Spain's commitment to the decarbonisation of its economy that will also bring multiple benefits for marine wildlife in Spanish waters Wädenswil, May 13, 2021: OceanCare congratulates that t ...
São Paulo (ots/PRNewswire) - Purchase of Vivera, Europe's third-largest plant-based protein producer thrusts JBS into the plant protein market; the EUR341 million deal includes the three manufacturing units and a research and development center in The Netherlands JBS, the world's largest protein company and second-largest food producer, has entered into an agreement ...
Farmington Hills, Mich. (ots/PRNewswire) - - Aramco Americas becomes founding member of US-based innovation hub - New center aims to achieve more sustainable building solutions through advances in nonmetallic technologies Aramco and the American Concrete Institute (ACI) announce the launch of NEx: A Center of ...
Media Release Sea Turtle Rescue Alliance Launches on World Wildlife Day A global network of veterinarians come together to save endangered sea turtles around the world Florida - USA, Bohol - Philippines, Zurich - Switzerland , 1 March 2021 : This Wednesday, March 3, marks World Wildlife Day and the launch of the Sea Turtle Rescue Alliance (STRA) with ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Klöckner Pentaplast (kp or the company), a leading global manufacturer of high barrier protective packaging solutions with industry-leading use of recycled content, today announced the launch of its new sustainability strategy, 'Investing in Better'. This follows on from the recent announcement of the successful completion of kp's entire capital structure refinancing, which is the first of its kind to incorporate an ESG-Ratchet Linked Term Loan ...
Hamburg (ots) - Varengold Bank, a leading financer of European fintechs with its focus on online lending market places, has published its first sustainability report. This can be downloaded at https://www.varengold.de/ueber-varengold/nachhaltigkeit/. The report has been produced voluntarily by an interdisciplinary team of Varengold employees and once again underlines ...
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - Firmenich, the world's largest privately owned fragrance and taste company, today ranked on the CDP Supplier Engagement Leaderboard 2020, setting the pace in environmental leadership. The leaderboard highlights the top 7% of companies that engage with their global supply chains on climate reporting and managing carbon emissions via CDP. This ...
Johannesburg (ots/PRNewswire) - In keeping with its priority Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of responsible production and consumption, Sasol and waste management company GrnCat, have developed a solution to recover wax from spent catalysts. Since the GrnCat plant was commissioned in 2018, Sasol has recovered and ...
Press release Hope for ban on oil and gas exploration in Spanish waters Wädenswil, January 13, 2021: While France has already imposed a ban on exploring any new oil and gas sites in its waters and the Danish government has just announced such ban for its waters within the North Sea, the Spanish Government has proposed a similar measure within its draft ...
Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Along China's northeastern coast of Bohai Sea stretched a strip of saline-alkali soil back in 1980s. It could barely afford any arable fields for plants and crops. In 1994, Binhai New Area of Tianjin was established by the coast as a greening and eco-restoration project just rolled out in the region. After over 20 years' efforts, a ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ots/PRNewswire) - G20 Leaders endorsed their declaration at the end of their summit today November 22, 2020, including agreements on steps to be taken to protect lives and shape a better future. "We, the G20 Leaders, meeting for the second time under the Saudi Presidency, stand united in our conviction that coordinated global action, solidarity, and multilateral cooperation are more necessary today ...