This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about:

- Trump scrapping the Paris commitment (http://bit.ly/2k3aCNC)

- adidas biodegradable shoes (http://bit.ly/2kkcBAA)

- Deutchse Bank getting out of coal (http://bit.ly/2keLFQ3)

- Tetra Pak the latest to adopt science based target (http://bit.ly/2k3sV4Y)

- Why 98% of companies miss their sustainability targets (http://bit.ly/2kpS394)

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Friday Five - 27 January 2017 by Narrative Matters

This week, we are with the exciting LanzaTech, a business using gas fermentation to take waste carbon from the atmosphere and turn it into biofuels – a move that might just shake up the entire renewable energy and transportation markets. Sean Simpson, co-founder of the business, joins us on Skype to tell us more.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about

- The World Economic Forum at Davos: So, what happened? (http://ind.pn/2iSarD7)

- The Global 100 most sustainable companies (http://bit.ly/2iJc1fy)

- IHG’s new trends report into what customers really want (http://bit.ly/2k8eV9O)

- Natural branding on fruit and veg (http://bit.ly/2isKizD)

- Unilever’s new research on the big opportunity companies might be missing out by NOT talking about sustainability (http://bit.ly/2i6q2zA0

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This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about

- Whether Trump will heed call of 600 businesses anxious about climate change (http://bit.ly/2j3Xtqk)

- Greenpeace calls for internet giants to go green (http://bit.ly/1Iw3ZIu)

- P&G’s zero-waste ambitions (http://bit.ly/2ioi2wx)

- The top global risks as determined by the World Economic Forum (http://cnb.cx/2jLwEaW)

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Happy new year! We are back, back, back with more great stories of sustainable business.

This time, we are with Sprout, the promotional products business with a difference, giving pencils a second life and using the power of product to make serious messages about our throwaway culture easier to understand.

This week, we are joined by five of our previous guests who give us their personal highlights from the past 12 months, an assessment of the most significant moments from 2016 (not least the shock victory of The Donald) and their hopes for the year to come.

Plus, I give you my top 9 highlights from 2016.

Thanks to everybody for listening to the show this year and being a part of such a fantastic community of better business makers. Happy Christmas and here's top an excellent 2017 one and all.

This is the Better Business Show Friday Five, released at the end of every week and digesting the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about

- Amazon, the good…. (http://bit.ly/2gRqJQN)

- …and the bad and ugly of everyone’s favourite online retailer (http://bit.ly/2gtn5fC)

- A quick review of David Attenborough’s Planet Earth II (http://bbc.in/2eaKxx4)

- IKEA’s push for new sustainable materials (http://bit.ly/2hrjoqc)

- Kite-style wind turbines (http://bit.ly/2hCuTsD)

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Charitable giving has exploded in the last 12 months, with more than $168m donated on Giving Tuesday, a 20% jump on last year. But as our guest on this week's show says, there is more to giving than just cash donations.

Hermione Taylor is the founder of Do Nation, an online platform which encourages people to give by changing their lifestyles and behaviours to help ease the burden on our beloved planet.

Check out www.betterbusiness.show for more stories like this one.

Tune in to the Better Business Show Friday Five, our new-ish show coming to you at the end of every week to digest the very best stories from across the world of sustainable business in the last 7 days.

This week, we’re talking about

- Why big brands are failing to display recycling labels on their products (http://bit.ly/2gfYb2V)

- The company turning waste fat into renewable diesel (http://bit.ly/2fvxVj5)

- Britain’s most disruptive business (http://bit.ly/2hsOE4J)

- A nifty sustainable gift guide for Christmas (http://bit.ly/2hcriE2)

- Why Cadbury’s is ditching Fairtrade (http://bit.ly/2gOYphr)

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