• Global and Local Perspectives on Advancing Human Rights Due Diligence
    Feb 19 2024
    In this third episode of season four of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)'s Sustainability Podcast Series, Maria Isabel-Cubies, Senior Manager with the CGF chats live at the Global Summit in Tokyo with Tomoya Obokata, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery about global and local perspectives on advancing human rights due diligence. In the context of global environmental crises and the consumer goods industry, they discuss trends in forced and modern slavery, the measures businesses should be taking to prevent and address human rights risks in their value chains, emerging legislation, consumer awareness, how Asia-Pacific is progressing and opportunities for collaboration amongst all actors with continued inspiration and resilience. To learn more about human rights due diligence, go online to www.tcgfsocial.com
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    15 mins
  • Effective Decarbonisation Strategy
    Jul 25 2023

    In this episode of the CGF podcast, Mark Chadwick, EMEA Executive Managing Director at ENGIE Impact talks with Zoe Daruwalla about the key takeaways from the Global Summit and the main challenges companies in the Food, Bevorage and Consumer Goods sector are facing as they strive to achieve Net Zero.

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    17 mins
  • Ensuring Sustainable Supply Chains in the Fresh Produce Industry
    Jan 31 2023

    In the first episode of season 4 of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)'s Sustainability Podcast Series, the CGF chats with Tamara Muruetagoiena, Director of Sustainability at the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA). IFPA is one of the newest members of the CGF's Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) — take a listen to hear about IFPA's choice to join the SSCI and how Tamara is looking forward to developing the SSCI's new environmental benchmark criteria. Learn more about the SSCI at www.tcgfssci.com.

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    14 mins
  • Chemical Recycling in a Circular Economy for Plastics
    Nov 24 2022

    In the latest episode of the podcast, host Louise Chester is joined by Colin Kerr, Global Head R&D Packaging Excellence & Technology at Unilever. Colin, who is co-lead of the CGF's Plastic Waste Coalition’s chemical recycling workstream spoke about Coalition’s announcements on the topic earlier in the year and shared his thoughts on the contribution that this technology can make to the plastic challenge.

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    21 mins
  • Tackling Upstream Food Loss and Waste
    Sep 7 2022

    In this episode of the Sustainability Podcast, host Louise Chester speaks to Moira Borens and Sebastian Gatzer from McKinsey & Company about the collaboration project they have been working on with the CGF’s Food Waste Coalition to look in detail at where food gets lost upstream between the farm and the retailer, focusing on tomatoes as a case study for this work. They share some of the common drivers, actionable levers they have uncovered, as well as the role that manufacturers and retailers can play to be part of the solution.

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    27 mins
  • Driving Nature, Climate, and People Positive Impacts in Production Landscapes Worldwide
    Aug 17 2022

    In this episode of the CGF Sustainability podcast, host Madelaine VanDerHeyden catches up with Anna Turrell, Head of Environment, Tesco, for a special in-person conversation at the 2022 CGF Global Summit in Dublin, Ireland. As co-lead of the CGF Forest Positive Coalition Landscape Engagement Working Group, Anna shares with Madelaine the Coalition's ambitious landscape engagement strategy with insights on how the Coalition members are working individually and collectively to drive nature, climate, and people positive outcomes in forest communities around the world. Learn more about this strategy at www.tcgfforestpositive.com.

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    26 mins
  • Protecting Human and Planetary Health
    Jul 25 2022

    In the latest episode of the CGF Sustainability Series, host Louise Chester speaks to Katie Decker, Global President of Essential Health and Sustainability at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health. Katie shares more about the company’s work to deliver greater benefits for people, communities and the planet, via its Healthy Lives Mission.

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    27 mins
  • Ensuring Good Working Conditions Worldwide with Human Rights Due Diligence
    May 11 2022

    In the latest episode of the CGF Sustainability Podcast, host Madelaine VanDerHeyden connects with Richa Mittal, Senior Director, Agriculture and Supply Chain Innovation at the Fair Labor Association. In 2021, he CGF Human Rights Coalition ⁠— Working to End Forced Labour started working with the Fair Labor Association and the UN International Organisation for Migration to help support Coalition members advance on their mission to ensure fair and good working conditions for workers worldwide. Richa, who is helping members implement critical Human Rights Due Diligence systems in their own operations that will help identify, remedy and prevent forced labour risks, joins the podcast to share her insights on the critical role of HRDD in fighting forced labour, and why companies' own operations are a key area to take action. To learn more about the HRC's work, visit www.tcgfsocial.com.

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    21 mins