The case illustrates the founding and growth of SloWeAre, the first eco-certification company in France that embraces the methodology eco-fashion brands employ on their journey towards producing socially responsible and environmentally sound textile products. By 2020, the four-year diagnostic service had attracted more than 75 French eco-fashion brands to the SloWeAre platform.

This case is the continuation of EMMA Safety Shoes (A): Designing a Circular Shoe. EMMA reached 100% circularity in shoe design at the end of 2019, but this impressive achievement did not mean its journey to the circular economy was over.

This case is about shared mobility in Paris.

In 2018, the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, in the fourth of her six-year mandate, embarked on a vision to create a greener city, free from polluting vehicles. Two years earlier, recognizing the global climate emergency and the need to keep global warming below 1.5C°, the city of Paris had set out an ambition to attain carbon neutrality by 2050.

After winning important battles against soda, governments and health activists are targeting chocolate bars because of their high sugar content, and some, like the UK government in 2017, have set strict targets on the amount of sugar and calories that can be contained in each chocolate bar.

In 2013, Victoria Murtazina, Senior Global Brand Director at Unilever, is preparing a team meeting to launch the first truly innovative packaging in the deodorant category for decades - “compressed” technology – as a way to reduce the carbon footprint of aerosol deodorants without undermining product quality or user habits.