Phil Cumming
@sustyphilc.bsky.social
GM Sustainability & Ethical Sourcing for The Warehouse Group | Brit now in NZ | B Leader | Ex Costa Coffee, Walgreens Boots Alliance, M&S (Plan A), London 2012 & Kingfisher | Love getting into the hills & kayaking. Own views
Popular Auckland restaurant takes Bluff oysters off the menu www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Popular Auckland restaurant takes Bluff oysters off the menu
Ngāi Tahu revealed it's not harvesting the seafood this season due to ongoing concerns about the state of the fishery.
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March 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Popular Auckland restaurant takes Bluff oysters off the menu www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Why this time feels different www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/43...
Why this time feels different
President Trump is back in the White House, and the strategies that largely worked in pushing back against his attempts to derail global climate action feel underpowered this time around
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January 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Why this time feels different www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/43...
Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages
Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings
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January 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Tesco to launch two new low-carbon concept farms www.edie.net/tesco-to-lau...
January 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Tesco to launch two new low-carbon concept farms www.edie.net/tesco-to-lau...
Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas quit RSPCA roles after animal cruelty claims - ITV News
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Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas quit RSPCA roles after animal cruelty claims — ITV News
Wildlife TV presenter and conservationist Chris Packham and former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas have quit their respective roles as president and vice president of the RSPCA after an investigatio...
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December 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas quit RSPCA roles after animal cruelty claims - ITV News
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Sigh… National’s quiet U-turn on $247m EV charger pledge www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
Stuff
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December 15, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Sigh… National’s quiet U-turn on $247m EV charger pledge www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
Graduate designs kettle that 'anyone' can fix www.bbc.com/news/article...
Graduate designs 'easily repairable' kettle to tackle e-waste
Gabriel Kay says he wants to design products that can help reduce e-waste in the UK.
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December 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Graduate designs kettle that 'anyone' can fix www.bbc.com/news/article...
WWF has warned that British supermarkets are falling behind on meeting critical environmental targets, with just over a year left to ensure deforestation-free supply chains by 2025 www.edie.net/wwf-warns-uk...
Supermarkets Lagging on Deforestation Goals: WWF
WWF report reveals supermarkets are behind on deforestation-free supply chains by 2025. Soy and cocoa are fall short of targets, urging urgent action.
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December 3, 2024 at 7:03 AM
WWF has warned that British supermarkets are falling behind on meeting critical environmental targets, with just over a year left to ensure deforestation-free supply chains by 2025 www.edie.net/wwf-warns-uk...
Final decision on Plastics Treaty delayed until 2025 as negotiations collapse www.edie.net/final-decisi...
Final decision on Plastics Treaty delayed until 2025 as negotiations collapse - edie
What was intended to be the final round of negotations on the the UN-convened Plastics Treaty has concluded with no formal decision, meaning that the binding agreement won't be delivered until next ye...
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December 2, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Final decision on Plastics Treaty delayed until 2025 as negotiations collapse www.edie.net/final-decisi...
UK Assisted Dying Bill - how MPs may plan to vote… news.sky.com/story/assist...
Assisted dying bill: This is how MPs plan to vote
Sky News has been crunching the numbers of how the vote could go.
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November 29, 2024 at 9:01 AM
UK Assisted Dying Bill - how MPs may plan to vote… news.sky.com/story/assist...
KPMG finds that nearly all of the world’s largest companies are now reporting on sustainability and setting carbon reduction targets www-edie-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.edie...
Most big businesses prepared for deluge of new sustainability reporting requirements, research finds – edie
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November 26, 2024 at 7:53 AM
KPMG finds that nearly all of the world’s largest companies are now reporting on sustainability and setting carbon reduction targets www-edie-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.edie...
Daily home activities - like folding clothes and sitting on a sofa - could give off clouds of microplastics, scientists warn news.sky.com/story/daily-...
Daily home activities - like folding clothes and sitting on a sofa - could give off clouds of microplastics, scientists warn
Ahead of urgent United Nations talks on reducing plastic pollution, new research holds a workout on a synthetic carpet could mean people breathe in up to 110 plastic fibres every minute.
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November 24, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Daily home activities - like folding clothes and sitting on a sofa - could give off clouds of microplastics, scientists warn news.sky.com/story/daily-...
Big news! The EU Council formally adopts Forced Labour Regulation banning products made with forced labour from being sold, exported, or available in its market www.eunews.it/en/2024/11/1...
EU approves final ban on trade in forced labour products
Some 27.6 million people are victims of forced labour worldwide, in many sectors and on every continent
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November 20, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Big news! The EU Council formally adopts Forced Labour Regulation banning products made with forced labour from being sold, exported, or available in its market www.eunews.it/en/2024/11/1...
Fantastic response!!! Professor Brian Cox had the very best response to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s climate change denial nonsense and it’s just fabulous www.thepoke.com/2024/11/19/p...
Professor Brian Cox had the very best response to Marjorie Taylor Greene's climate change denial nonsense and it's just fabulous
With world leaders gathered at Cop29 to come up with something – anything! – to help tackle the climate emergency, the spectre of fossil fuel devotee Donald Trump inevitably hangs heavy. And few of hi...
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November 19, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Fantastic response!!! Professor Brian Cox had the very best response to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s climate change denial nonsense and it’s just fabulous www.thepoke.com/2024/11/19/p...
Not surprised! As Wales withdraws from UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme for drinks packaging - and confirms it “remains committed” to designing and launching its own! www.edie.net/wales-withdr...
Wales withdraws from UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme for drinks packaging - edie
Wales’ Deputy First Minister has confirmed that the nation will not participate in a UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for beverage packaging, over concerns that the model on the table could ‘detrac...
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November 19, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Not surprised! As Wales withdraws from UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme for drinks packaging - and confirms it “remains committed” to designing and launching its own! www.edie.net/wales-withdr...
Hundreds of companies have agreed to share supply chain data in an open source hub, in a bid to improve transparency and plug data gaps www.edie.net/hundreds-of-...
Hundreds of companies to share supply chain data in open-source hub - edie
Hundreds of companies have agreed to share supply chain data in an open source hub, in a bid to improve transparency and plug data gaps.
www.edie.net
November 18, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Hundreds of companies have agreed to share supply chain data in an open source hub, in a bid to improve transparency and plug data gaps www.edie.net/hundreds-of-...
Age matters when it comes to boards - there is often bias towards candidates with established records, but companies should not be afraid to take a chance on youth
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Age matters when it comes to boards
There is often bias towards candidates with established records, but companies should not be afraid to take a chance on youth
www.ft.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Age matters when it comes to boards - there is often bias towards candidates with established records, but companies should not be afraid to take a chance on youth
www.ft.com/content/699d...
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