No Surprise: Sustainability Funds Outperform the Market – Despite COVID-19

ByThe Circular Economy Team May 18, 2020

The megatrend of 2019 was sustainability. Led by climate activist Greta Thunberg, youth across the world demanded politicians and business owners engage in immediate action on climate and sustainability. Investors followed in droves: According to research by Morningstar, estimated net flows into open-end and exchange-traded sustainable funds that are available to US investors totaled $20.6bn for 2019. This was nearly four times the previous annual record set in 2018.

The megatrend of 2020 so far is coronavirus, and with it a tendency to doubt that sustainability will remain a priority. Locked up in their homes and out of their schools, the youth climate movement has come to a near standstill. “Sustainability pays off only in economically rosy times”, we now hear critics say. “As soon as a crisis hits, priority shifts elsewhere.”

Source: www.responsible-investor.com

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Enriching innovation and creativity: Focus of Zain’s sustainability strategy

ByThe Circular Economy Team September 30, 2019

Company showcases last year’s top entrepreneurship and innovation achievements KUWAIT: During the first quarter of 2018, Zain Kuwait adopted the enrichment of innovation and entrepreneurial creativity as the main focus of its sustainability strategy for the entire year ahead.

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20% of Brits wash cash, clamour for a digital US$

ByThe Circular Economy Team June 23, 2020

In the UK 20% of people have been washing the cash in disinfectant over concerns due to Covid-19 and on average Britain’s have gone without using cash for 44 d…

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UBC moving away from single-use coffee cups, plastic cutlery on campus

ByThe Circular Economy Team December 9, 2019January 22, 2020

The University of British Columbia is working to make single-use coffee cups and plastic cutlery a thing of the past – at least on its Vancouver campus.

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Houston can be leader in global plastic sustainability, says Baker Institute expert

ByThe Circular Economy Team May 3, 2021May 18, 2021

Houston, as the intellectual capital for the energy industry, can become a global leader in advanced plastic recycling, according to an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Advanced recycling, or chemical recycling, transforms post-use plastics into their original, chemical building blocks so they can be continually reintegrated into the supply chain. Houston has the largest concentration of petrochemical manufacturing in the world, giving it “enormous leadership opportunities,” according to Rachel Meidl, the fellow for energy and environment at the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies.