Unadulterated

The PureStrategies Blog

unadulterated contains our unvarnished views on sustainability. Use these insights and musings to inspire and accelerate your journey.

Plastics and packaging: Can a new path be realized by 2025?

Plastics and packaging: Can a new path be realized by 2025?

The U.S. Plastics Pact aims to realize a new path for plastic packaging by 2025, one that is more circular. The group has been working since late 2020 to plan and take the first steps toward this big ambition.

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The hidden challenge: Have you defined plastic?

The hidden challenge: Have you defined plastic?

A hidden challenge with plastic strategies is a lack of clarity about what materials are considered plastic and preferred solutions.

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Pure Strategies Launches “Future Leaders in Corporate Sustainability” Mentoring Program

Pure Strategies Launches “Future Leaders in Corporate Sustainability” Mentoring Program

Pure Strategies is excited to offer a unique opportunity for students, recent graduates, and early-stage professionals that are interested in a career in corporate sustainability, especially those with identities underrepresented in the field of corporate sustainability, to participate in a four-month long formal mentoring program.

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Highlights of the New Net-Zero Standard

Highlights of the New Net-Zero Standard

We need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Companies have been exploring this aim, but without clear guidance, there have been different approaches with various degrees of robustness. So, the Science Based Targets Initiative developed guidance to provide a science-based standard for net-zero targets.

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Taking action to be net-zero and nature-positive

Taking action to be net-zero and nature-positive

Businesses have a key role to play in reversing nature loss, protecting biodiversity, and preserving species. We cannot solve the climate crisis without recognizing the significant role nature plays in capturing and storing CO2 from the atmosphere through its ecosystems, on land, and in our oceans.

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The next evolution of sustainable sourcing takes an allied approach

The next evolution of sustainable sourcing takes an allied approach

An allied approach to sustainable sourcing shifts from a transactional arrangement to more of a partnership where risk and costs of improving environmental and social outcomes are shared.

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3 steps to start protecting biodiversity and your business

3 steps to start protecting biodiversity and your business

By following three key steps, businesses can develop goals and follow actions to support the restoration of biodiversity, a move that has benefits for both business and nature.

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Pure Strategies Launches Self-Assessment Tool to Help Companies Set Science Based Targets for Nature

Pure Strategies Launches Self-Assessment Tool to Help Companies Set Science Based Targets for Nature

Pure Strategies launched of a self-assessment tool designed to help companies start in building a strong commitment to protecting and restoring nature – including water, land, biodiversity, and oceans.

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Pure Strategies 2020 Report on the B Corp Re-Certification Progress

Pure Strategies 2020 Report on the B Corp Re-Certification Progress

We achieved B Corp certification to deepen and make public our commitment to B Corp values and ideals while striving to meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

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TAZO Joins the Fight for Climate Justice in Partnership with SZA and American Forests

TAZO Joins the Fight for Climate Justice in Partnership with SZA and American Forests

The TAZO Tree Corps will launch Spring 2021 and work to help combat climate change in the most impacted communities across the country.

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Introducing the Natural Next Step for Science Based Targets

Introducing the Natural Next Step for Science Based Targets

Setting science-based targets for nature — as Seventh Generation and other leading companies are doing — can bolster climate targets while also helping to protect and restore water, oceans, land and biodiversity.

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How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy

The European Union has proposed a new vision for a “toxic-free environment” and published a strategy for moving the EU towards that goal.

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