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Tricia Carey joins "low-carbon" crop startup Avalo

1 week ago | trellis.net | Elsa Wenzel

The fashion veteran brings decades of apparel and fiber expertise to Avalo’s AI-driven mission to breed better cotton. Industry peers have credited her with efforts to advance circulose, textile-to-textile recycled material from doomed startup Renewcell. Carey spent 24 years at fiber giant Lenzing Group, where she led denim strategy and expanded the use of Tencel. Send news about sustainability leadership roles, promotions and departures to [email protected]. Read more Executive Moves.
Fashion is only 8.6% toward 2030 emissions goal. Here's how to speed up

1 week ago | trellis.net | Elsa Wenzel

It’s been six years since industry leaders set a 12-year goal for slashing 100 megatons of CO2. Progress has been slow despite the fact that high-profile brands and retailers are deepening their decarbonization commitments and funding. The Apparel Impact Institute is focusing on making deeper impacts with electrification and other technologies, and working in more regions. Where the Apparel Impact Institute (AII) goes, so goes sustainable fashion.
How tariffs are challenging purpose-driven small companies

1 week ago | trellis.net | Elsa Wenzel
AstraZeneca’s $130 million biomethane plant is a model for high-emitting industries

1 week ago | trellis.net | Tom Howarth

The plant is expected to supply 100 gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable gas annually to AstraZeneca’s plants in the U.K.It was built by Future Biogas with a 15-year, $130 million offtake agreement from AstraZeneca. It operates without subsidies and uses dedicated energy crops, not waste materials.
GM taps Dell’s sustainability chief as new CSO

1 week ago | trellis.net | Heather Clancy

Cassandra Garber’s former employers include 3M, Coca-Cola and General Electric. She built the sustainability team from scratch at medical supply company McKesson. Garber was at Dell for four years, most recently as chief sustainability officer. Send news about sustainability leadership roles, promotions and departures to [email protected]. Read moreExecutive Moves.
The sustainability profession is at an existential crossroads. Here's how it can survive

1 week ago | trellis.net | Dave Waldron |Bill Weihl

The sustainability profession needs to decide if it’s going to raise the bar and become a trusted profession or be co-opted to sanitize increasingly destructive corporate and political activities. If professionals decide to raise the bar, they must do so via four core qualities: knowledge, competence, ethics and accountability. One of the defining features of trusted professionals is their higher duty of care to society. For many sustainability professionals, these are disorienting times.
Costco and Unilever embrace refillable packaging

1 week ago | trellis.net | Heather Clancy

Small brands have found a niche for refillable packaging by selling direct to consumers. Unilever is paying an undisclosed sum to buy Wild, which sells deodorant in refillable containers. Clean Cult’s refill model relies on aluminum bottles and paper cartons lined with aluminum to prevent leaks. Two upstart consumer products brands that shun single-use plastic in their packaging, Clean Cult and Wild, are in the spotlight after striking deals with Costco and Unilever.
Microsoft’s big buy shows decarbonization potential of paper mills

1 week ago | trellis.net | Jim Giles

Microsoft has signed a deal for 3.7 million carbon removal credits over a 12-year periodProject developer CO280 will generate the credits by capturing emissions from pulp and paper millsMany U.S. mills are situated close to suitable geologic storage reservoirsCould the pulp and paper industry be transformed into an engine for carbon removal?
Unilever pushes trade associations to speak up on climate policy

2 weeks ago | trellis.net | Heather Clancy

The success of Unilever’s climate transition action plan depends on stricter regulations for high-emitting sectors. The company will quit trade groups that remain misaligned 12 months after being put on notice. Unilever’s annual assessment of industry association is rare. Unilever has distanced itself from two trade associations because their lobbying activities are misaligned with the consumer products company’s climate policy agenda.
New SBTi CEO urges companies to step up action on net zero

2 weeks ago | trellis.net | Heather Clancy

SBTi’s new CEO stresses the need for flexibility in target-setting methodologies. Corporations shouldn’t wait for the new Corporate Net Zero Standard methodology to set emissions reduction goals. Climate transition plans will become a critical component of the target-setting process.