Consumer healthcare firms are perfectly placed to lead the charge in fighting climate change while benefitting from the transition to a greener, healthier world. However, taking advantage of the green opportunity means putting environmental, social and governance (ESG) at the center of how OTC companies measure and reward success and treating the health of people and planet as a single, related issue, argues Bayer Consumer Health's sustainability guru Daniella Foster. 

Working alongside the consumer healthcare industry, the Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU) is helping to build a global self-care movement that makes a World Health Organization resolution "very likely" in the next few years, says director Austen El-Osta.

HBW Insight reports on a packed agenda at the AESGP's Regulatory Conference on 25 November. Panels discuss the implications of raft of legislative changes for the European self-care industry, including the incoming EU Pharmaceutical Strategy, the new Medical Devices Regulations, and the inter-related European Green Deal, Farm to Fork and Chemicals Strategies. The conference also saw the launch of the GSCF's Charter for Environmentally Sustainable Self-Care.