S & S News: The Week in Highlights 25.02.20

S & S News: The Week in Highlights shares a collection of current articles, reports and stories that are newsworthy in the realm of sustainability, social responsibility and beyond. Feature promise: Absolutely no fake news.

Whilst the world is either flipping for pancake day or fleeing from coronavirus, sharing the S & S sustainability news highlights.

Great Barrier Reef on brink of third major coral bleaching in five years, scientists warn via Guardian

British food consumption linked to wildlife loss and deforestation abroad via Independent

Meat company faces heat over ‘cattle laundering’ in Amazon supply chain via Guardian

Unprecedented number of critically endangered blue whales recorded off Antarctic island via Independent

‘We need a rapid transition’: BP announces net zero by 2050 ‘ambition’ via Business Green

BlackRock tracker takes bulk of £1.3bn sustainable allocations via Business Green

Heathrow infrastructure achieves carbon neutrality, aims for zero carbon by mid-2030s via Business Green

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos commits $10bn towards fighting climate crisis via Business Green

Sadiq Khan sets up £50m fund to reduce emissions in London via Guardian

Fashion Council responds to XR pressure via Eco Textile News

40 brands join Walpole Sustainability Manifesto via Eco Textile News

Burberry launches ‘carbon insetting project’ via Drapers