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HEINEKEN has just announced that 100% of its beer sold in the Netherlands has been brewed using green energy. Here, Jan Kempers, Program Manager Sustainable Development at HEINEKEN Netherlands Supply, explains how the world’s most international brewer is decarbonising its supply chain.
Logistics operator InPost has revolutionised the Polish parcel delivery market with its automated parcel lockers. Now, CEO and founder Rafał Brzoska is planning rapid expansion in European markets as sustainability tops the agenda and Covid-19 increases demand for automated logistics.
Bart-Willem ten Cate, Low-Carbon Strategist at FinCo Fuel Group BV, has been advocating for sustainability measures in transport for almost two decades. He believes “sustainability is becoming a licence to operate”, and tells us why low-carbon fuels have to be part of the energy transition – and how young people are key to success.
Kaitlin Crouch is Climate Lead at ING and the lead editor of ING’s Terra report, which was launched in 2019 followed by a second report in October 2020. Her work is about establishing what the Paris Agreement means for individual companies and how financial institutions can support them and help them to cut through the noise.
Jan Klerken, founder of Scelta Mushrooms, may have retired after close to 50 years in the business, but he says he won’t rest until the food industry is “100% clean”. Here, he explains how he turned the company around in pursuit of sustainability, and we hear how mushrooms are the unlikely stars of the circular economy.
Read how Badar Khan, CEO of National Grid, is determined to be part of the solution on climate issues and how the founder of Olmix is on a mission to develop sustainable food additives.
企业不断面临新的挑战。无论是应对新科技，还是预见新的发展趋势，企业的应变能力每天都在经受考验。为了跟紧科技快速发展的节奏，各行各业的公司都需要现在就做出投资部署，并将其对环境和社会带来的影响纳入考虑，使其商业模式更具面对挑战的能力。我们的行业系列深入探讨新科技在食品与农业、能源、交通运输和物流等行业进行可持续商业模式转型过程中所发挥的作用。
Consider the race to get Covid-19 vaccines to the public: one of the biggest obstacles could be transportation. If the transport and logistics sector scales up the internet of things (IoT), sensors, and blockchain, it could dramatically reduce time-loss in the transport of critical items – during the pandemic and beyond.
The global meat and dairy industry contributes 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions and in 2018 we consumed 385 million tonnes of meat worldwide, accounting for at least 1.7 gigatons of CO2 emissions, 380 million hectares of land and consumption of 87 billion square meters of water. That is a huge environmental impact – from just meat and dairy.
Plastic waste is a growing predicament. In a recent ING International Survey, 34% of Europeans said that plastic waste was the biggest environmental problem – ahead of climate change. As consumer pressure mounts, government, the packaging industry and consumer brands are working to solve the plastic packaging problem.
A global shift to clean energy needs more of us to drive electric vehicles (EVs). But that is not likely to happen until we know we can rely on the seamless functioning of different parts of a complex ecosystem.
An unlikely collaboration is addressing the problem of how to reduce emissions in the supply chain: battery-powered barges. In June 2020, Zero Emission Services began to offer an alternative to diesel-fuelled shipping on Dutch inland waterways by deploying electric barges running on modular batteries.
Learn how agriculture is battling climate change, what is driving the energy transition and how automation and shifts in supply-chain management affect multiple industries.
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