'Catalysing a circular economy': CDP calls on corporates to disclose problem plastic risks

Stuart Stone
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Credit: Naja Bertolt Jensen

Disclosure platform requests that firms disclose impact of 'problematic plastics' for the first time in response to requests from more than 740 investors with $136tr in assets

Approximately 7,000 companies have been urged to disclose "problematic plastic" impacts for the first time, as CDP's global environmental disclosure platform opens for 2023. From today, firms can report...

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