Members of the Sustainable Brands® community will gather next week for the 8th annual New Metrics conference, taking place October 29-31 at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. More than 300 executives and global thought-leaders will reveal new methodologies, toolkits and case studies for demonstrating the ROI of Sustainable Business.
Our instinct to point the conference in this direction was on target. On the first day of last year’s “business” gathering, the major topics included immigration policy, gun control, and the opioid crisis—and that was before the lunch break. The event was definitely not a business as usual gathering.
This GRI podcast episode focuses on the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in sustainability reporting. The guests include John Revess, Head of Sustainability at ABB; Michel Washer, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer at Solvay; and Alyson Slater, Chief Network Engagement Officer at GRI.
As the world’s largest, most broadly based healthcare company, we understand that human health is inextricably linked to environmental health—you can’t have healthy people without a healthy planet. In fact, our commitment to the environment is enshrined in Our Credo, so "protecting the environment and natural resources" is a natural part of everything we do at Johnson & Johnson. In recognition of World Environment Day, here are some of the ways we’re making good on that commitment.
Acuvue Oasys 1-Day are daily contact lenses designed with HydraLuxe technology for the correction of optical refractive errors associated with ametropic defects in the eye, for both myopia and hyperopia. These lenses were launched using 100% sustainable packaging with paperboard purchased from a Fiber Sourcing Certified plant, and packaging was reduced to one box, compared to the previous packaging of four boxes.