Scaling up - The brave new world for green certifications and standards

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Mike Barry, head of sustainable business at Marks & Spencer, calls on certification standards to evolve as the challenge of scale becomes the new reality

Standards and certifications are a vital part of any sustainability journey for a business. We can't do it without them. They provide an end point for targets (for example 100 per cent FSC wood), they...

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