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Register for the ‘Changing Tack’ Launch Webcast

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Thursday, June 13th, 2013
11am – 12.30pm (New York) / 4pm – 5.30pm (London)

Join us as we launch Changing Tack, the summative output of The Regeneration Roadmap. Please mark your calendar for an engaging 60-minute presentation and panel discussion (followed by a 30-minute interactive Q&A) about scaling and accelerating corporate leadership in the field of sustainable development. The webcast will incorporate implications and recommendations from extensive research, engagement and deliberation over the past 18 months.

Guardian Sustainable Business Executive Editor Jo Confino will moderate the panel discussion.

While registration for this event is not required, you may do so to ensure you receive updates and reminders as we approach the Launch date. Register here.

To learn more about the project, watch the introductory video here.

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Consumers Rank Ingredient Transparency Among Most Important Issues For Brands

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Study finds large majority of consumers say “ingredient transparency” among top purchase drivers for food, beauty and household products, yet only 57% regularly check the list of ingredients before purchasing

A study by BBMG, GlobeScan and SustainAbility finds that nearly 9 in 10 consumers globally (86%) say “ingredient transparency is extremely important or very important” for companies to address as part of their products, services, or operations, including 88% of consumers in emerging markets and 84% of consumers in developed markets. However, only 57% regularly “check the list of ingredients before purchasing” products, highlighting the gap between interest and action in sustainable consumption. Continue reading “Consumers Rank Ingredient Transparency Among Most Important Issues For Brands” »

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Aspirational Consumers Unite Style, Sustainability to Shape Market Trends

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New study finds two-thirds of consumers love to shop, while also feeling responsibility to society and the environment

January 30, 2013 – Is there such a thing as sustainable consumption? A new study by BBMGGlobeScan and SustainAbility finds that a majority of consumers across six international markets are seeking to reconcile their desire for shopping and style with responsibility to the environment and society through their purchases. According to the report, Rethinking Consumption: Consumers and the Future of Sustainability, nearly two-thirds of consumers globally equate shopping with happiness (63%) while also feeling a sense of responsibility for society (65%). The study draws from an online survey of 6,224 consumers across Brazil, China, India, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States conducted in September and October 2012. Continue reading “Aspirational Consumers Unite Style, Sustainability to Shape Market Trends” »

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Re:Thinking Consumption Webinar – Consumers and the Future of Sustainability

Meet the Aspirationals. We have uncovered a unique and exciting new consumer segment across the world that has the power to shape the future a new, sustainable consumerism. 

Join BBMGGlobeScan and SustainAbility for a special webinar on Thursday, February 7, 2013, featuring highlights from a new global study on how consumers are balancing environmentalism and materialism to shape the future of sustainability.

Can we shop our way to sustainability? What actually motivates behavior change? What is the role of consumers in shaping a more sustainable economy?

Based on the views of 6,224 consumers across Brazil, China, India, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, the webinar will highlight sustainability market trends, key purchase drivers, barriers, engagement pathways and opportunities for action. Continue reading “Re:Thinking Consumption Webinar – Consumers and the Future of Sustainability” »

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Regeneration Consumer Study Featured in Guardian Sustainable Business

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Article originally published in Guardian Sustainable Business on Friday 23rd November 2012. 

The shelves are stacked, the credit cards are primed, the queues are forming. As Black Friday dawns (the day after Thanksgiving in the US that signals the start of the Christmas shopping season), there’s not much more a consumer brand can do to influence its target audience, at least not for this year. But once the dust has settled, those who are serious about driving demand for more sustainable products and services would do well to pause and reflect on what today’s consumers really think about the nature of consumption.

A new survey from BBMGSustainAbility and GlobeScan offers some insights. Rethinking Consumption, to be published next week, aggregates the views of 6,224 consumers across Brazil, China, India, Germany, the UK and the US.

Continue reading “Regeneration Consumer Study Featured in Guardian Sustainable Business” »

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Mining Industry Experts Gather to Help Set the State of Sustainable Development

The Regeneration Roadmap recently co-hosted an event with the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). The discussion was chaired by SustainAbility’s Rob Cameron and accompanied by esteemed panellists Anthony Hodge, president of ICMM and Tom Burke, Chief Environmental Policy Advisor at Rio Tinto. This was an opportunity for key figures in the mining industry and in the field of sustainable development more broadly to react to some of the findings of The Regeneration Roadmap. While the Salon ostensibly had a mining focus the issues discussed went beyond narrow industry-specifics, encompassing some of the more macro challenges faced by all industries in confronting issues of climate change, development and social well-being.

Continue reading “Mining Industry Experts Gather to Help Set the State of Sustainable Development” »

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