Shein – Sustainable overview

The world’s largest fashion retailer started with drop shipping then integrated its business. As most fashion retailers they work with a very extensive network of retailers (3000+ according to wiki). Fashion companies are notorious for their lack of environment and social sustainability. For instance, 85% of fashion retailers do not disclose their annual production, neither […]

Sustainable Logistics beyond carbon

As you may remember, this blog all started from a desire to think about what sustainable logistics and supply chains could look like. While I have always focused more on the environmental sustainability side, it is obvious that true sustainability has no boundary between social and environmental – despite what ESG frameworks would make you […]

Feminism and sustainability

Exploring the relationship between feminism and sustainability. There are two angles to this. On one side feminist ideas can support the progress of the sustainability movement and the intersection of the two will improve both movements. I recently finished a thesis exploring sustainability challenges under a feminist lens supporting – in short – the argument […]

Expectations for COP27

While it feels that COPs are getting less attention as time passes, COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh is a great occasion to assess the progress of countries to reach net-zero and other sustainability goals. Previous COP conferences were focused on agreeing on targets (Kyoto in 1992, Doha amendment 2012 and Paris 2015) and more recent […]

Enforcing Green Supply Chain Standards

THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN THE PALM OIL INDUSTRY This essay is a series of extracts from my undergraduate dissertation written in 2017, some of the actors’ stances and practices could have changed. This essay describes the situation at the time of the research. List of acronyms and abbreviations used in the document:GSCM – […]

THE FUTURE OF ENERGY COMPANIES (2)

This is the second part to my series on energy companies. The first part can be found here. If you like this story why not subscribe to your right and never miss another of my articles! While for some being sorry matters and apologies need to be earned through asking for an apology, I see […]

The future of energy companies

I listent to a podcast by Vox Conversations on the Limit of Forgiveness. Growing up in apartheid South Africa Lucy Allais witnessed first-hand the limits of forgiveness before researching it. Can you forgive oppression? Can you forgive the people who enabled this institutionalised power system to exist? This led me to reflect on my view […]

Problems with current agriculture practices

The agricultural revolution has granted the sector electric tools for what used manual or animal labour. Throughout time we have brought down bushes separating crops to make space for large plots of land that a tractor can plough. We have heightened our use of fertilisers and pesticides changing the productivity of our crops and land […]

Beyond emissions in climate change

There is a lot of focus on emissions in climate change literature and news. However, it is not the only problem we are dealing with regarding climate change. While the recent light shed on climate change has increased population’s awareness of the matter, focussing on emissions narrows the understanding of climate change for the broad […]

Fighting climate anxiety

The word climate anxiety has been recently coined. It focused on anxiety felt by climate conscious people regarding their inability to change things enough. While fighting climate change is very important, fighting the impact of it on your life and mental health is a primary concern. I should add that no one has ever been […]