NTI creates sustainability team, appoints head

L’Oréal USA has tapped Marissa Pagnani McGowan as chief sustainability officer for North America.  “Marissa brings to her sustainability work a passion for the power of partnerships and collective action,” said Stéphane Rinderknech, president and chief executive officer of L’Oréal USA and executive vice president of North America, in a statement.  McGowan, who officially joins the company in November, will report to Rinderknech.  “We aim to drive a complete transformation of our business — to be a leader and catalyst of change in the beauty sector and beyond,” added Rinderknech. “I firmly believe that we must act with even more urgency to address the social and environmental needs of the planet while preparing our business to meet the opportunities of our dynamic market.”

Chatham House has launched an online tool to facilitate the analysis of circular economy trade flows and trends. The circular economy trade data explorer uses the available data from UN Comtrade, and focuses on resources which are of particular significance to the circular economy. The data explorer organizes over 900 individual commodities into primary and secondary material categories. Primary materials include raw and intermediate bioeconomy products, including renewable resources from land and sea used for food, feed, construction, and bioenergy generation. Secondary materials covered are derived from both renewable and non-renewable resources, and include waste, scrap, and residue, secondary raw materials, and used goods.

The reports, policy notes, and other research publications listed here help provide an analytical basis for facilitating forest, agriculture, and water efforts in the Mekong Region. Developed by the World Bank and its partners, these works address a range of topics, including drivers of deforestation, landscape solutions, tourism potential, and ecosystem valuations. They also seek to convey lessons learned from countries in the region to support regional and integrated solutions on forest landscape management.