Mining Supplement
2023 Trends Report
Trends Webinar: APAC
2023 Trends Webinar
The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region produced just over half of the world’s plastics in 2021. Because it encompasses so much of the world’s overall plastic production and is home to some of the world’s largest plastic producers, APAC can be a leader on the transition to a circular economy for plastic packaging.
To set the stage for this year’s annual trends report, we dig in to three factors rearranging the landscape upon which corporate sustainability evolves: Geopolitics, Macroeconomics, and the Erosion of Public Trust.
With Montreal currently hosting COP15, where country representatives are gathering to agree on targets for the GBF, ERM consultants Charlotte De Fraye and Lizzy Elli explore why businesses need to care about nature, the significance of COP15 and how ERM will be contributing to the conference, in our latest blog ‘Understanding the Value of Nature’.
ERMers around the world took this month’s COP27 as an opportunity to engage in conversations about how we can best drive progress forward. This piece reviews the results of this year’s COP discussions through the lens of gender, sustainable finance, biodiversity, and decarbonization.