Inside the Sustainability Playbooks for Industry Leaders Walmart and Rothy’s

For many retailers, sustainability is more than a buzzword. These days, it’s essentially a prerequisite for any company looking to win over the increasingly eco-minded consumer. At a featured session at NRF’s Big Show on Sunday, sustainability leaders from Walmart and Rothy’s discussed their tips for creating and seeing through sustainability goals for a company. While both are vastly different in terms of size and focus — Rothy’s is a sustainable footwear company that launched in 2015 — both offered perspectives regarding how to approach one of the most important business topics of 2022. In 2020, Walmart announced a new goal to target zero emissions across global operations by 2040. The retailer said it would work with the Walmart Foundation, its philanthropic arm, to achieve this and would aim to restore at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean in a decade to help combat the effects of climate change. In 2017, the company rolled out Project Gigaton, a plan to encourage suppliers and other partners to help tackle climate action and collectively avoid 1 billion metric tons, or a gigaton, of greenhouse gases from the global value chain by 2030. According to Zach Freeze, Walmart’s senior director

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