Following the recent announcement that the WeRaceAsOne initiative will become the official ESG platform for Formula 1, in support of the #PurposeDriven Movement launched by the FIA last year, we are pleased to announce plans for a new partnership with international advocacy organisation Global Citizen to become a charity partner of the WeRaceAsOne platform.

Today we are celebrating World Water Day, an annual United Nations observance that highlights the critical importance of freshwater. This year, NortonLifeLock partnered with Planet Water Foundation to combat the global water crisis. We funded the deployment of an AquaTower at Panchayat Union Primary School in Tiruvannamalai, India, providing people living in the village easy access to clean, safe drinking water.

Maria-Jose Subiela moves from Business in the Community (BITC) where, since 2019, she has been leading BITC’s Global Goals Campaign, to accelerate the scale and pace of business action to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is pleased to welcome Sonoco, a producer of high-quality healthcare packaging for clinical and consumer needs, as its newest member. Sonoco’s Healthcare Packaging business is part of Sonoco.

Apple earned the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard Certification at its Prineville, Oregon data center site. It is the first to certify a data center to the international Water Stewardship Standard (AWS Standard), demonstrating leadership in context-based water stewardship action at the site level.

Climate Action 100+, the world’s largest investor engagement initiative on climate change, has released its first-ever benchmark evaluating the corporate ambition and action of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters and other companies with significant opportunity to drive the net zero transition.

Today, on World Water Day, Novartis inaugurated an integrated watershed development project to help address water scarcity in the Telangana region of India, one of the world’s most water-stressed countries.

Water resources are under huge pressure given the current projections for population increase and demand for food on the one hand, and climate change on the other.

Even with the prospects of a return to normalcy coinciding with the rollout of various COVID-19 vaccines, many will remain at home carrying out work remotely and into the near future.

For World Water Day, we sat down with Dr. Andrew Jordan; sustainability advocate and advisor to Cotton Council International (CCI), Cotton Incorporated, and the US Cotton Trust Protocol (USCTP); to get his perspectives on the link between cotton and water.