It also provides wedding outfit rentals, garment alterations and repairs for fashion. The firm has already begun offering resale options for fashion using its own platform, following a pop-up store collaboration with Depop. We don’t have all the answers, but we are committed to finding solutions, through a continued imaginative approach to retail innovation.” Selfridges’ managing director Andrew Keith said: “We recognise that we need to challenge ourselves to accelerate change and our ambitious circular and materials targets do just that.
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The commitment forms part of an update to its Project Earth Sustainability Strategy, which also included a new aim to only source high-impact materials from suppliers with accredited sustainability certifications by 2025. The retailer pledged on Friday (2 September) to ensure that 45% of its transactions across stores and online come from circular products, practices and services by 2030. RESOURCES: Selfridges bets big on service-based business models to slash wasteĪfter pledging to offer circular economy services for all of its product categories, Selfridges has this week gone one step further. Some environmental groups opposed this move, arguing that renewables would be more cost-effective.
Policymakers also voted to extend the working life of California’s last remaining operational nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, until at least 2030. At least $8bn will be spent on ending gas-fired electricity generation and on upgrading the energy distribution system. The new targets form part of a $54bn climate package intended to be spent over a five-year period. As it works toward ending fossil-fuel-fired electricity generation in 2045, it has set new benchmarks meaning that fossil fuels cannot account for more than 10% of generation by 2030, decreasing to 5% by 2040. Now, the state has set new renewable electricity targets. Policymakers opted for a 56% reduction by 2030, against a 1990 baseline, up from the previous 40% reduction. ENERGY: California plots path to ending gas-fired electricity generationīack in March 2020, the US’s most populated state, California, was featured in this roundup for legislating for new emissions targets for the energy sector. Here, we round up five positive sustainability stories from this week.
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Published every week, this series charts how businesses and sustainability professionals are working to achieve their ‘Mission Possible’ across the campaign’s five key pillars – energy, resources, infrastructure, mobility and leadership.Īcross the UK and the world, leading businesses, cities, states and regions are turning environmental ambitions into action.
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