Environmental Sustainability

Incisive Media is delighted to host its inaugural Sustainable Investment Festival this summer to help readers of Investment Week, Professional Adviser and Professional Pensions navigate this rapidly-evolving area of the market.

Have you ever heard of the Tasmanian devil?  It’s actually nothing like the cartoon version—the real devil is a black animal with white markings that’s smaller than a cocker spaniel, and it’s in trouble.  The Tasmanian devil once lived on the continent of Australia but now survives in the wild only on the island state of Tasmania, just off Australia’s south coast.  It’s the largest surviving marsupial carnivore in the world.  A marsupial’s young develop in a pouch on their mother’s belly rather than in a uterus inside their mother’s body.  Other than females with young, the devils are solitary, living in a burrow in the ground during the day and coming out at dusk to feed.  Devils can hunt for prey but much of their diet consists of dead animals—carrion–such as road-killed wallabies and wombats.  A disease spreading across the island since 1996 has decimated the devil population.

Trends forecaster WGSN has unveiled its 2022 beauty trends, which centre around usability and sustainability, from water-saving hygiene to faster make-up routines. Among the six ‘ones to watch’, as highlighted by WGSN, is ‘waterless washing’, an evolution of waterless beauty encompassing showerless shampoo and no-water shaving products.
‘Fermented beauty’, meanwhile, taps into the desire for potent products and is driven by K-beauty and J-beauty trends. Fermentation releases enzymes that break down molecules so they can better penetrate the skin. The fermentation process also results in the formation of acids, such as lactic and acetic acids, which act as natural preservatives, prolonging shelf life.