Sentences with phrase «commitment around sustainability»

Fisher: For a while there was some concern about whether DuPont's commitment around sustainability was really going to be a growth strategy.

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The judges observed a pronounced, global, industrywide commitment to sustainability, with innovations around source reduction, lowering energy use during manufacturing, reusability, reducing food waste, and much more, as reported in the fourth of a six - part series of video interviews on industry trends, released today.

As awareness builds around our supply chains, corporations are increasingly accountable for their commitments to sustainability...

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

As part of its Environmental Education Program, guests will be invited to plant native trees with staff around the lodge and make commitments to sustainability in their everyday lives.

As we continue profiling some of the exciting commitments people around North America are taking during the EcoChallenge, today we turn to Denver, Colorado where Christy Cerrone, a University of Denver Housing and Residential Education Sustainability Team member has been examining her purchasing habits and making more local and more sustainable purchases — and fewer purchases overall.

Walmart takes a comprehensive view of sustainability to include both environmental and social commitments around the world.