Melia Hotels aims to inspire thirty million guests around the globe with a last straw moment. The chain is combating climate change by eliminating single use plastic in all their hotels with the help of digital tools.
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This article was originally published by ENGIE Asia-Pacific and is republished with permission. 2019 has indeed been a defining year for citizen action on climate change. Environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s call for greater action has rallied support across the globe for governments and businesses to do more.
It is always difficult to encapsulate a 12-month period, let alone the 365 turbocharged 24-hour news cycles that seem to have become the new normal. So much happens in the course of a year — from governments, companies, activists and many others — that it all becomes a blur. That certainly is true in the world of sustainability. From the launch of Loop, the circular economy wunderkind, in January to the colossal failure of COP25 in December, from the burning Arctic and Amazon to the dizzyingly weird weather, it’s another year of ups and downs, reasons for both optimism and despair.
Yorkshire Water has launched its first sustainability bond in a bid to raise 350m from investors.
The Coca-Cola Company has unveiled a string of updates to the packaging used across its Dasani water brand, in a bid to minimise its plastic footprint.
Prosocial is inherently about equity and co-production starting at the scale of small groups and then applying the same principles at multiple levels.
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