Category: Cocoa Sustainability and Deforestation

Let nobody say that Mondelēz hasn’t embraced ESG. The company just raised billions of dollars of cheap cash by labelling their bond issuance as ‘green’. The multinational with the …

Barry Callebaut released a brief announcement showing their ranking position with a leading sustainability rating agency, Sustainalytics.  Sustainalytics is one of a few companies that crunches the numbers, often …

By Erik Sanner This article is part of our FCIA Raising the Bar Column, produced by members of the FCIA exclusively for Bartalks. You can learn more about the. …

Here in Thailand, many city dwellers are closing up shop and moving out to the provinces where they have family and land. The two weeks to flatten the curve …

Ex-US vice president Al Gore has come out with some strong words against companies making vague long term promises of net-zero objectives. At Bartalks we’ve commented a number of …

Ten men from Burkina Faso were jailed in Côte d’Ivoire last week for attempting to smuggle forty children between the ages of 10 and 17 years old. The children …

The BBC reported on 9th June that Côte d’Ivoire is in the latter stages of building a large power plant capable of powering millions of homes, and it all …

Reference to Net Zero emissions feature heavily press releases and companies sustainability reports. But less visible are details on how those businesses will accomplish their goals! Dig deeper into …

Barry Callebaut writes on their website about the relationship between biodiversity and sustainable cocoa and what biodiversity means to them in the context of their “carbon and forest positive …

This week, we’ve covered a lot of information about Environmental and Sustainability issues, referencing the EU’s proposed legislation and the lobbying from certain chocolate companies (e.g., Cargill). As we …

Your correspondent was listening to this week’s edition of the Economist on his morning walk (there is an audio version on their app) and the topic of greenwashing came …

Indulge me while I describe a fictional scene. If you’re short on time, jump to ‘The Problem with Carbon Credits’. You’re the CEO of a MNC and you’ve just …