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| Posted April 12, 2018

Meet Us at “Nachhaltigkeit im Handel – From Fair Trade to Fair Business” at IHK Köln, 26 April 2018

Sustainability is gaining more and more relevance across sectors, and even well-established trade companies have to face the challenges of integrating sustainability strategies into their business models. Under the headline “From Fair Trade to Fair Business”, this session of the event series “Sustainability and Economic Success” sheds light on the relevance and potential of sustainability […]

| Posted April 11, 2018

Join Us for the Kompetenzzentrum eStandards Workshop “Digital Sustainable Supply Chains” on 15 October 2018 in Wuppertal!

Want to make your supply chains sustainable? Establishing transparency and sustainability along your entire supply chain helps with meeting customer demands, saving money, and making your business model more resilient. The CSCP is hosting the Kompetenzzentrum eStandards Co-Working Space in Wuppertal and will be organising a workshop looking at your challenges and needs in making […]

| Posted April 10, 2018

Joining Private and Public Forces to Overcome Common Challenges in Sustainable Procurement

CSCP brings together private and public actors to identify potential opportunities for cooperation. A workshop-series in April will allow deep-dives into key topics for defining common ground and the creation of a joint vision. Sustainable Procurement has been a key topic for the CSCP almost since its inception. Since public procurement accounts for a major […]

| Posted April 9, 2018

INHERIT Policy Route Map: 20 Policy Interventions to a Healthier, More Sustainable and Equitable Europe in 2040

If you leave your front door and walk for five minutes – can you reach a park? Or a forest? If it was up to the INHERIT project team, there would be a policy intervention that guarantees every citizen at least 0.5-1 hectare of greenspace within 300 meters of their home. Sound great? That’s because […]

| Posted April 9, 2018

Artist Ulrika Eller-Rüter Joins the CSCP’s Co-Working Space

We welcomed artist Dr. Ulrika Eller-Rüter, Professor of Painting at Alanus University of the Arts and Sciences in Bonn and Founder of the “Kunst im sozialen Brennpunkt” Institute, to our Co-Working Space, where we talked about taking art into the board room and affecting change on a larger scale. Imagine walking out of the train […]

| Posted April 9, 2018

Learn Which Types of Interventions Could Support More Resilient and Sustainable Food Value Chains

Price, quality, environmental impacts, working conditions, information, infrastructure, reputation, negotiation power, convenience, values, health concerns – these are all aspects that influence how food value chains function. But what drives these factors in the first place and what are their impacts on sustainable consumption and production? Most importantly: which types of interventions could support us […]

| Posted April 8, 2018

Project Start – ProMoNa: Prosumption Models for Sustainable Food and Clothing

Are you a prosumer? That depends. If you have ever assembled furniture for your own home you are a prosumer. If you have knitted your own socks, engaged in an urban gardening project or used the self-checkout at the supermarket, that counts too. If done right, prosumption can hold great sustainability potential. According to Alvin […]

| Posted April 6, 2018

Sustainable Label assessment platform Siegelklarheit now supported by the CSCP

Siegelklarheit.de is guiding consumers through the label jungle. A CSCP-led consortium has been selected to support the platform in reaching out to mainstream consumers and increasing consumer awareness on sustainable products and labels. Better access to information for consumers, especially through the improvement and the expansion of product labels and product labeling, is among the […]

| Posted April 5, 2018

Project Kick-off: „The Future of Work: Insights – Popup Dialogue-Centers on the Working World of Tomorrow“

Can robots make medical and health care more humane? Will I be able to work on the beach as if I were sitting in the office in the near future? Do I want this? Digitalisation is happening now. It affects not only our private life, it affects the way we work as well as our […]

| Posted April 4, 2018

The CSCP is a Founding Member of the Climate Chain Coalition

Distributed Ledger Technologie (DLT, e.g. blockchain) is one of the major technological developments to support the transition towards sustainability. At the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement, 25 organizations jointly established the Climate Chain Coalition (CCC) to advance DLT for scaling climate actions for mitigation and adaption. During the One Planet Summit on 12 December […]

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