Post by Reuters Events Sustainable Business

This week’s Sustainable Business newsletter is out — three stories that look unrelated, but share the same uncomfortable diagnosis. • Flexible plastics: 58% of packaging globally, under 4% recycled — new laws are forcing the issue, but KKR’s Viridor just signalled it may exit European chemical recycling, exposing how fragile the economics really are. • Sustainability leadership: Lindsay Hooper’s sharp op-ed argues the real crisis isn’t knowledge or ambition — it’s a collapse of agency in boardrooms that know what’s wrong but stay silent on the market design choices that could actually fix it. • Clean cooking: KOKO Networks’ collapse left 1M+ Kenyan households without fuel — a 2024 study found projects over-estimated carbon benefits by 1,000%, and no alternative funding model has emerged. Click through to read more. #SustainableBusiness #CircularEconomy #CleanCooking #CarbonMarkets #SustainabilityLeadership #ESG #Plastics