Earth Partner

Art Partner (

Private sector

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#SDGAction52785

Description

Earth Partner is the sustainability division of Art Partner, a global creative agency at the centre of fashion, luxury and technology. Officially established in 2019 to help Art Partner and its clients reduce their environmental impact and increase their sustainability efforts, Earth Partner works to identify where sustainable practices can be implemented, both on set and in their offices in New York, London and Paris. This includes carbon offsetting, using sustainable energy sources, recycling, food composting, the phasing out of single-use plastic, sourcing eco-friendly materials, environmentally-friendly production methods, as well as promoting messages of sustainability and social responsibility through creative work. Earth Partner has collaborated with various global organisations, such as World Land Trust, Ellen McArthur Foundation and Eco Age, to help drive positive change beyond the creative industry and to encourage greater awareness and action on environmental issues.

Implementation of the Project/Activity

Earth Partner acknowledges that aspects of its work in the creative industry come at an environmental cost, and is working to address these impacts globally. 1. Creative compelling climate narratives: Earth Partner leverages Art Partner’s unique position at the centre of artists, brands, magazines, digital platforms, music and celebrity, to showcase new, visually rich stories on climate change and to celebrate the people who are reframing and leading the conversation. In 2019, Earth Partner founded #CreateCOP, an artistic-based competition that rallies collective awareness and encourages creatives of all nationalities, races, genders and faiths, aged 14-30 to submit work that generates conversations around the urgent need for climate action. #CreateCOP seeks to amplify the call to climate action by providing a platform where the voices of the next generation of concerned creatives can be seen and heard. Especially members of marginalised communities, who are often underrepresented, highlighting the unique ways in which they each view the perils of climate change. Each year the competition has been judged by a globally recognised panel of industry experts, and the winning works have been featured in a virtual exhibition hosted on the Art Partner website. Since its inception, #CreateCOP has received submissions from 94 countries around the world and garnered significant media attention from leading global publications. 2.Expanding the impact and network of NGOs: Earth Partner collaborates with organisations working towards nature and climate solutions to create comprehensive communications strategies that draw attention to global sustainability initiatives. For example, Earth Partner has developed an original content series for Flourishing Diversity that brought together 30 representatives from 17 Indigenous communities to help bring awareness to the critical role indigenous leaders play in preserving nature’s integrity, and to the manifold challenges they face on a daily basis. Earth Partner has also provided comprehensive communications strategy to The Ellen MacArthur Foundation in advance of and during its #wearnext campaign, which promoted the benefits of establishing a circular fashion economy among New York City’s 8 million residents. 3. Championing a future vision of fashion: Earth Partner aims to promote a culture of information transparency, in which facts become a creative tool, showcasing ethically responsible origins, materials and manufacturing processes of clothes. In its commitment to making fashion circular, Earth Partner creates narratives around clothes that live many lives, and that represent brands for longer than one season’s lifecycle. Most recently, Earth Partner produced D Magazine’s ‘Green Issue’ which was released in conjunction with COP27. The issue was guest edited by Marina Testino and featured a selection of conscious brands and emerging designers. 4. Operating as a sustainable business and production company: Earth Partner has implemented significant waste reduction practices across its offices in London, Paris and New York, including food composting, conversion to 100% sustainable energy sources, phasing out of single use plastics in the office, significant reduction of paper and carbon offsets associated with business operations as well as business travel. Earth Partner productions are distinguished by comprehensive recycling, composting bins, absence of single-use plastic, carbon offsets for flights, digital invoices and call sheets, use of hybrid cars and shared transportation when possible, donation, re-use and recycling of set materials, and donation of leftover food.

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Earth Partner has created an open-source production sustainability toolkit (available on artpartner.com) which includes, among other things, information on its initiatives and practices, production riders, as well as office resources on composting, decarbonisation, e-waste, etc. #CreateCOP enables young artists and creatives, who would’ve otherwise lacked the resources, to showcase their talents and perspectives of the climate crisis on a global scale. Additionally, Earth Partner provides these young people with the financial aid to fund their projects and raise greater awareness of the diverse effects of climate change that impact different communities across the globe. For example, last year’s winner Lizeth Lozano Palomino secured $10,000 for her multimedia project ‘Orilla Negra’ highlighting the Repsol oil spill in Peru - the country’s worst ecological disaster in recent history. This win resulted in press coverage from international publications such as El País and Document Journal.

Coordination mechanisms

Since October 2016, Earth Partner has worked with Natural Capital Partners to measure and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its offices in London, New York and Paris. It has been a certified CarbonNeutral® company since 2017. To offset the greenhouse gas emissions which cannot currently be reduced at the offices – for example, from heating the offices during winter and staff commuting – Earth Partner has purchased Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) that have been generated from the preservation of virgin forests in Brazil’s Acre state. The project additionally supports 15 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their work with communities and local groups to advance agricultural education and refurbish or build health clinics in the area, for example. Additionally, Earth Partner has partnered with World Land Trust to support their Carbon Balanced Project to protect Guatemala’s Caribbean Rainforest. In 2022, supporters of this programme, collectively offset 207,909 tonnes of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of taking 142,152 average UK cars off the road for a year. This project directly advances 13 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and protects more than 73 million trees and more than 700 known terrestrial species.

Partners

World Land Trust, UNESCO, Ellen MacArthur, Natural Capital Partners

SDGS & Targets

Goal 12

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

12.1

Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries

12.1.1

Number of countries developing, adopting or implementing policy instruments aimed at supporting the shift to sustainable consumption and production

12.2

By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

12.2.1

Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP

12.2.2

Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP

12.3

By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

12.3.1

(a) Food loss index and (b) food waste index

12.4

By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

12.4.1

Number of parties to international multilateral environmental agreements on hazardous waste, and other chemicals that meet their commitments and obligations in transmitting information as required by each relevant agreement

12.4.2

(a) Hazardous waste generated per capita; and (b) proportion of hazardous waste treated, by type of treatment

12.5

By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

12.5.1

National recycling rate, tons of material recycled

12.6

Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle

12.6.1

Number of companies publishing sustainability reports

12.7

Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities

12.7.1

Number of countries implementing sustainable public procurement policies and action plans

12.8

By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

12.8.1

Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

12.a

Support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production

12.a.1

Installed renewable energy-generating capacity in developing and developed countries (in watts per capita)

12.b

Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

12.b.1

Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability

12.c

Rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption by removing market distortions, in accordance with national circumstances, including by restructuring taxation and phasing out those harmful subsidies, where they exist, to reflect their environmental impacts, taking fully into account the specific needs and conditions of developing countries and minimizing the possible adverse impacts on their development in a manner that protects the poor and the affected communities

12.c.1

Amount of fossil-fuel subsidies (production and consumption) per unit of GDP

Goal 13

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

13.1

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.1.1

Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

13.1.2

Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

13.1.3

Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

13.2

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

13.2.1

Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

13.2.2

Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

13.3

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.3.1

13.a

Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

13.a.1

Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025

13.b

Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

13.b.1

Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Goal 15

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

15.1

By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements

15.1.1

Forest area as a proportion of total land area

15.1.2

Proportion of important sites for terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity that are covered by protected areas, by ecosystem type

15.2

By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally

15.2.1

Progress towards sustainable forest management

15.3

By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

15.3.1

Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area

15.4

By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development

15.4.1

Coverage by protected areas of important sites for mountain biodiversity

15.4.2

Mountain Green Cover Index

15.5

Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

15.5.1

Red List Index

15.6

Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed

15.6.1

Number of countries that have adopted legislative, administrative and policy frameworks to ensure fair and equitable sharing of benefits

15.7

Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products

15.7.1

Proportion of traded wildlife that was poached or illicitly trafficked

15.8

By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species

15.8.1

Proportion of countries adopting relevant national legislation and adequately resourcing the prevention or control of invasive alien species

15.9

By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts

15.9.1

(a) Number of countries that have established national targets in accordance with or similar to Aichi Biodiversity Target 2 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 in their national biodiversity strategy and action plans and the progress reported towards these targets; and (b) integration of biodiversity into national accounting and reporting systems, defined as implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting

15.a

Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems

15.a.1

(a) Official development assistance on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and (b) revenue generated and finance mobilized from biodiversity-relevant economic instruments

15.b

Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation

15.b.1