+100 leading businesses call for EPR for packaging June 15, 2021. Today for the first time, more than 100 businesses in the packaging value chain, including SUST4IN, together with more than 50 other organisations, publicly recognise that without Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) packaging collection and recycling is unlikely to be meaningfully scaled and tens of […]

IIRC and SASB form the Value Reporting Foundation, providing comprehensive suite of tools to assess, manage and communicate value June 10, 2021. The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) yesterday officially announced their merger to form the Value Reporting Foundation. The Value Reporting Foundation supports business and investor decision-making

UN calls on countries to meet commitments to restore one billion hectares of land 5 June 2021. Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade – an area about the

The end of “non-financial” reporting and the quest for sustainability standards 29 April 2021. Marcio Viegas outlines five actions that need to be taken to make business and finance more sustainable  Accountants love financial reporting. They spend most of their time immersed in balance sheets, income, cash flow and other regulated financial statements. The rest is

Sustainable Finance and EU Taxonomy: Commission takes further steps to channel money towards sustainable activities 22 April 2021. The European Commission has today adopted an ambitious and comprehensive package of measures to help improve the flow of money towards sustainable activities across the European Union. By enabling investors to re-orient investments towards more sustainable technologies

Earth Day: The Earth is what we all have in common April 22nd, 2021. The General Assembly designated 22 April as International Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009. The original roots go back to the 1970s when environmental protection was not yet a priority of the national political agendas. The UN Conference on the Human Environment

Climate change indicators and impacts worsened in 2020 19 April 2021. 2020 was one of three warmest years on record, despite cooling La Niña Extreme weather and COVID-19 combined in a double blow New York/Geneva, 19 April 2021 (WMO) – Extreme weather combined with COVID-19 in a double blow for millions of people in 2020.

SUST4IN welcomes the Spanish translations of all 77 SASB industry standards March 26, 2021. SUST4IN, experts on sustainability, is pleased to support the announcement by Sustainability Accounting Standards  (SASB) of the Spanish translations for it’s 77 industry Standards. The translated industry standards follow the publication of Spanish translation of the SASB Standards Application Guidance and

SUST4IN joins the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican Madrid, March 11. SUST4IN, sustainability experts, have joined the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican. The Council is a global nonprofit organization that joins moral and market imperatives to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and trusted economic system that addresses the needs of our