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As the holiday season wraps up, a new season begins: the season of retail returns 🛍️ Did you know that in the United States alone, $890 billion worth of goods are estimated to have been returned to online sellers in 2024? The US National Retail Federation calculates that around 17% of the country’s merchandise sales ended up as “returns” last year. Many items are never resold, and end up as landfill. And even those that do go back on sale incur a hefty additional carbon footprint thanks to the transportation, packaging and processing. Our CEO Rachel Delacour spoke to CNBC’s Personal Finance specialist Jessica Dickler about the issue, and how returns impact on businesses’ environmental footprint as well as their bottom line: https://lnkd.in/eqcRtD6h

Happy New Year to all of our followers and network! As 2025 begins, a topic that's top-of-mind for us and many of you, is the CSRD. It’s the European Union (EU)’s landmark directive, requiring 50,000 businesses in the EU and many more beyond, to disclose data on their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. As of this year, the first tranche of companies will be required to submit their first CSRD reports. What’s more, a new batch of businesses came into the scope of the CSRD as of Jan 1 2025. It’s all rather new, and may seem daunting. That’s why our CSRD experts at Sweep have prepared some explainers to help you get your head around what your company will need to do, and how. Here’s part 1, with our Chief Product Officer Raphael Güller Stay tuned for more explainers coming soon - and for more in-depth information about the CSRD timelines and requirements, head to https://lnkd.in/exfdbBC3 #CSRD #ESG #sustainability

It’s time to say goodbye to 2024, a busy and exciting year for Sweep: New clients, new territories, new industries and use cases for our technology, and constant innovation. To all of our partners, clients, friends and network, we wish you a successful and sustainable 2025. We're sharing some of our favourite moments from the year in photo form below... ...and can’t wait to see what the new year brings. Happy New Year 🥂 from all of us at SWEEP

As ever more moves are made towards achieving global climate targets, businesses are increasingly focused on understanding and reducing their own environmental impact. For many organizations, Scope 3 emissions, which encompass all indirect emissions from a company’s value chain, represent the largest part of their carbon footprint. Unlike Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 (indirect energy) emissions, Scope 3 includes emissions from activities that occur outside of a company’s direct control but are integral to the production of the final product. These include emissions from suppliers, transportation, and even the downstream use and disposal of products. So why does measuring Scope 3 emissions matter? And how can businesses organize their suppliers into tiers? To find out more about Scope 3 and how mastering it can help you achieve value for your business, click here to read our in-depth article: https://lnkd.in/eSvdVYqd #supplychain #scope3 #sustainability

Calculating your organization’s first carbon footprint can be a daunting task. How to collect the data? Where to start? And perhaps most importantly - how to get the best value for your business, out of the results? These were some of the questions our customer Caudalie was facing. With ambitious sustainability goals and an environmental ethos running through the company’s DNA, it was important for the French skincare brand to choose the right technological tool for the task. We are proud to have helped Caudalie to create its first ever carbon footprint, streamlining its sustainability data management in the process - leaving team members more time for the all-important task of taking sustainability action. Caudalie’s Sustainable Development Manager Angelique Vacher told us why her team turned to Sweep, and how the platform has transformed their work. Click here to find out more about Caudalie’s story 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/ex2ZNsyy

❄️ Season’s greetings from the Sweep Team! ❄️ As 2024 draws to a close, all of us here at Sweep send you our very best wishes for the festive season. We are looking forward to a new year filled with ambitious and impactful sustainability action, in collaboration with our customers, partners and networks. From Rachel Delacour, Raphael Güller, Yannick Chaze, Julien Denormandie and all of the Sweep team

☃️ The end of year holiday period is a great time to unwind, unplug the devices and settle into a good book. Here at Sweep, we have compiled our own holiday reading lists, to inspire and inform you. 📚 Below are some of the top recommendations, which we shared at our recent end-of-year events in Paris and London. Have you read any of these? Do you have other suggestions for our list? Let us know in the comments 👇🏻 🐏 "Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm", Isabella Tree: - the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex (Knepp Wildland Foundation), using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. - suggested by Bea Rhodes 🌍 "Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet", Hannah Ritchie: - packed with the latest research, practical guidance and enlightening graphics, this book will make you rethink almost everything you've been told about the environment. - chosen by Raphael Güller 🗺️ "World Without End" by Jean-Marc Jancovici & Christophe Blain: An eye-opening, hopeful and hugely entertaining bestseller, in which a climate expert takes a leading graphic novelist on a journey to understand the profound changes that our planet is undergoing - picked by Elie Daverio 🏃🏻 "Race For Tomorrow" by Simon Mundy: In an extraordinary journey through 26 countries, the Financial Times’ Simon Mundy meets the people on the front lines of the climate crisis, showing how the struggle to respond is already reshaping the modern world – shattering communities, shaking up global business, and propelling a groundbreaking wave of cutting-edge innovation. - nominated by Catherine Nicholson 🌲 "Into the Forest" by Jean Hegland: An intense and poetic novel about survival, nature and resilience in the face of the collapse of civilization - selected by Fleur Douet #sustainability #climateaction #ESG

 We all know what the bottom line is - but have you heard of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL)? 💡 This concept is revolutionizing how businesses define and measure success. Adopting the Triple Bottom Line framework helps businesses achieve sustainable growth by balancing ⚖️ profit ⚖️ social equity ⚖️ and environmental responsibility. Want to find out more? Click here to read on: https://lnkd.in/eRq4u8ZX

💫 Thanks to everyone who came along to our “Sustainability Sync” event yesterday. It was a special evening hosted to celebrate the successes of 2024, and discuss what's to come in 2025 with our UK based customers, partners, and network. 2024 has been an incredible year for our fast-growing community. The highlights for Sweep: ✳️ We now manage more than 350 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent on our platform, from hundreds of customers and tens of thousands of suppliers ✳️ We integrated the UK-founded AI startup Consequence, to supercharge our software’s capabilities ✳️ We are helping our clients to streamline their #sustainability data mangement, for internal reporting, compliance, climate action, and business transformation Some highlights from the night: ✴️ Hannah Clevett, Impact Manager at World of Books Group and David Carlin, Climate and Sustainability Leader speaking to SWEEP cofounder Raphael Güller about the value of sustainable business ✴️ Our CEO Rachel Delacour sharing her outlook for all things #ESG in 2025, and the evolving world of #sustainablefinance ✴️ the insightful conversations and connections between you, our network We are excited to see what 2025 will bring, and look forward to joining you for the journey 🥂

As many of you are busy with last-minute holiday shopping… we are thinking about another kind of procurement: sustainable procurement for businesses. As global priorities shift toward addressing climate change and fostering social responsibility, the understanding of corporate procurement has grown to include broader environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns. Some elements that today’s procurement leaders must consider: ✳️ the price and quality of goods and services ✳️ climate impacts ✳️ resource efficiency ✳️ social responsibility being embedded in their supply chains Companies increasingly expect their procurement departments to demonstrate alignment with sustainable investment practices, as sustainability now impacts both financial and reputational outcomes. So, how can this all be achieved? Our experts in sustainable business have prepared some helpful pointers. Click here to dig deeper into these essential topics: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZmhmTnr #procurement #sustainableprocurement #supplychains