Anna Triponel & Anna Turrell

“Launching the Countdown means asking ourselves the big questions: what’s the state of the climate today? What does climate science know? How are we going to achieve a net-zero future? How do we center climate justice in our work?”

Countdown is a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action. The goal is to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 in order to achieve a zero-carbon world — a world that is safer, cleaner and fairer for everyone.

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Anna Triponel & Anna Turrell

In our last piece, Wouldn’t a consumer-led movement be the most effective way to enable a level playing field for sustainable business?, we talked about the finding that although consumers increasingly care about sustainability, there are significant limitations to how able and willing they are to prioritise sustainably sourced products through their purchasing decisions.

We discussed how faced with limitations on individual consumer ability and agency to incentivise sustainable business through purchasing decisions, we have seen the mobilisation of consumers by civil society groups focused on tarnishing company reputations.

Although these efforts can lead to…

Anna Triponel & Anna Turrell

We are in the midst of an environmental and social crisis. That might sound alarmist, but recent events have proven this to be an inconvenient truth.

As the world’s population continues to grow to reach 10 billion people by 2050, governments and businesses will need to find drastically different ways to make the food, products and resources we rely on to live. …

Anna Triponel and Anna Turrell

We are living one of the most significant times in our history as a species. Will we, or will we not, choose to re-build the economy post COVID-19 in a way that enables our future survival?

Just in the past month, we have seen 150 CEOs and business leaders (representing over 5 million employees and a market capitalisation of over $2.4 trillion) call on governments to prioritize a faster and fairer transition from a grey to a green economy in their economic aid and recovery packages. …

This article was co-written with Christine Bader

The Coronavirus is leaving no sector of the global economy untouched. Electronics, automotive, healthcare, clothing and others are reporting delays in production, reductions in sales, and hits on earnings.

But when we speak in abstract terms of slowdowns in global manufacturing, all we hear is the sound of big machines grinding to a halt. Which is true — but misses the much larger human costs that accrue to the most vulnerable members of the global supply chain.

It is in every company’s best interest to assess the impacts of this pandemic not just…

Today is Human Rights Day. This is the day on which we celebrate the perennial values of equality, justice and human dignity, and reflect on how far we’ve come since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations in 1948, just three years after the end of the World War II and the atrocities done in that war.

This year, however, there is little cause for celebration. We have seen rising nationalism, inequality and authoritarianism around the world. We have seen those who speak out for human rights attacked, threatened, victimised and even killed. …