🛍️ Zara enters the resale market with second-hand service
The Zara store is helping its UK shoppers resell, repair or donate clothes purchased from the Spanish fashion chain in an effort to reduce its environmental impact.
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British consumers can book repairs and donate unwanted items in an initiative aimed at reducing their carbon footprint.
The pre-owned service will launch on November 3rd. Zara said the UK has been chosen as a test market, but if successful the service will likely be extended to other key markets.
🌱 Companies demand that nature impact disclosures are mandatory by 2030
More than 300 companies, including Vale and Nestlé, asked world leaders to make it mandatory for companies to assess and reveal their impact on nature by 2030.
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Em an open letter to heads of state (*), business leaders request that governments agree to disclosures at COP15 – the UN Biodiversity Conference – which will be held in Montreal in December.
If agreed, the commitment would apply to all large companies in the 196 signatory countries of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Ministry of the Environment), the global agreement on nature protection, ratified in Brazil by the Federal Decree No. 2.519 of March 16, 1998.
The open letter was released alongside a report (*) published by Business for Nature, Capitals Coalition e CDP, a non-profit organization specializing in environmental disclosure systems. “They know there can be no business on a dead planet,” the report says. “They are ready to transform their businesses and are calling on governments to set the rules of the game through legislation that creates fair competition for business.”
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☀️ UN warns that climate commitments are a long way from limiting global warming
The most recent international commitments on climate are a long way from responding to the Paris Agreement's objective of limiting climate change. global warming at +1,5 degrees Celsius, the United Nations (UN) warned this Wednesday (26), less than two weeks before COP27.
Far from limiting the increase in temperature to +1,5ºC or +2ºC, the two emblematic marks of the treaty, the plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the 193 signatory parties “could put the world on track for +2,5°C warming by the end of the century“, warns the UN agency.
At COP26, held in 2021 in Glasgow, the signatories of the agreement agreedpromewill have to increase their “nationally determined contributions” (NDC) every year, instead of every 5 years, as provided for in the agreement signed in 2015.
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But by December 23, the deadline for including new goals before COP27 – which will take place from November 6 to 18 in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh – only 24 countries had presented a new or expanded NDC.
A “disappointing” number, admitted Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN for Climate Change.
“We are still nowhere near the level and pace of emissions reductions needed to put us on track for a world of +1,5 degrees Celsius maximum temperature rise,” Stiel highlighted. “To keep the objective alive, governments must reinforce plans now and apply them over the next eight years,” he insisted.
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Revitalize the fight
According to United Nations experts, Global emissions are expected to fall by 45% by 2030, compared to 2010 levels.
This would allow meeting the objective established in relation to average temperatures in the pre-industrial era, when humanity began to exploit fossil fuels on a large scale, which produce the greenhouse gases responsible for warming.
But the new NDC summary calculates that current commitments would nevertheless lead to a 10,6% increase in emissions over the period.
Just a few days before the start of COP27, where thousands of delegates and more than 90 leaders from around the world, according to the Egyptian government, will analyze the planet's climate future, the publication is a new warning.
🌳 Lupo is already able to reduce the use of paper in its packaging by 90%
Lupo has been setting goals for sustainability. Among the various existing initiatives, such as water reuse and more efficient dyeing processes, in addition to technological machines that help reduce water consumption during production, the brand is now changing the packaging of its products, resulting in a 90% paper reduction.
Initially, the packaging change began with the seamless underwear line and is now also present in Lupo Sport brand products. Soon, the new feature will be extended to all of the company's other product lines.
The pieces with the new packaging are already in circulation in Lupo stores and e-commerce. For more information, just access the latest sustainability report, published on the brand's website.
(with AFP)
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