4 ways companies can build low-carbon supply chains
GreenBiz
MARCH 9, 2020
From McDonald's 2001 commitment to sustainable fish to Walmart’s 2017 Project Gigaton launch, the length and path of these journeys ranges widely.
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GreenBiz
MARCH 9, 2020
From McDonald's 2001 commitment to sustainable fish to Walmart’s 2017 Project Gigaton launch, the length and path of these journeys ranges widely.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. Rosalind Brewer is the first African-American and woman to steer the company’s Americas operations as well its global supply chain, product and store development. and globally by 2040. Company profile.
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Cisco CSR
JULY 26, 2022
In 2001, he joined Broadcom Corporation where he managed Field Applications Engineering for the Compute Segment team, ran Program Management in the Networking BU, and was a Sr. 5:11 Impact of supply chain. From 1994 to 1999, while at Compaq, he earned 15 patent awards. Timestamps. 2:12 800G consolidation. 3:23 1.6
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Thus, with the need for innovation looming, Tersano set out in 2001 to Change the Way the World Cleans. Shorter Supply Chain, Less Costs. Moreover, traditional cleaning products require extensive training, prepping, shipping, handling, and processes that can reduce workplace efficiency and increase operational costs.
American Clean Power
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Between 2001 and 2015—a period that included two recessions—manufacturing employment fell nearly 30 percent. Photo Credit: Nextracker The clean energy industry is staging a great American comeback—facilitating the buildout of manufacturing and the revitalization of communities in the U.S. In addition, 71 percent of U.S.
Cisco CSR
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
In 2001, he joined Broadcom Corporation where he managed Field Applications Engineering for the Compute Segment team, ran Program Management in the Networking BU, and was a Sr. 7:44 Supply chain flexibility. From 1994 to 1999, while at Compaq, he earned 15 patent awards. Timestamps. 2:47 Power. Music credits.
3BL Media
MARCH 4, 2024
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Strengthening Organic Enforcement (SOE) final rule represents the biggest change to the National Organic Program (NOP) since its founding in 2001. In addition, organic supply chain participants who are currently not certified organic will need to be compliant.
3BL Media
JULY 6, 2023
Originally published by Sustainable Brands By DAVID DARR One of the most complicated issues with greenhouse gas accounting in our nation’s food and beverage supply chains is Scope 3 emissions and the potential solutions. The GHG Protocol , introduced in 2001, is a widely used standard for sustainability reporting.
ESG Today
MARCH 9, 2023
TPG Rise Climate not only has deep experience across the clean energy supply chain, but this capital will also help us leapfrog some of our consumer product lines where we feel the market competition isn’t serving the consumer as optimally as they deserve.”
3BL Media
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The initiative builds on GBCHealth's experience as a positive agitator, and looks ahead to future health challenges facing the planet, calling on the private sector to future-proof the wellbeing of their staff, supply chains, and communities by working in collaboration with governments & NGOs worldwide.
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Call2Recycle is a nonprofit battery stewardship program that has been partnering with The Home Depot since 2001 to offer in-store rechargeable battery collection. To help, The Home Depot partners with Call2Recycle making it easy to recycle your rechargeable batteries. To date, The Home Depot has helped recycle more than 14.5
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
In 2001, he responded to his observation by establishing Tersano, an organization that would be the first in the world to invent Stabilized Aqueous Ozone (SAO®). In 2001, Tersano introduced Stabilized Aqueous Ozone as a radical improvement to ordinary aqueous ozone in its half-life and cleaning performance. Change in Numbers.
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Quick background to CSRD To deliver on the 1.5ºC targets of the Paris Agreement, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) was established in 2001 with the support of the European Commission. We explain what this means, why it's important, and how companies can prepare for it.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
In 2001, he responded to his observation by establishing Tersano, an organization that would soon be destined to Change the Way the World Cleans. As an engineer, Tersano’s CEO, Steve Hengsperger , recognized the negative impact that harsh cleaning chemicals have on the environment, human health, and workplace efficiency.
3BL Media
AUGUST 19, 2022
Boeing founded the AMRC with the university in 2001. The University of Sheffield is one of Boeing’s six partner universities in the United Kingdom, where it has 3,000 employees and spends £2 billion in the supply chain each year. “At For more information, visit www.boeing.co.uk or follow us on Twitter @BoeingUK. .
3BL Media
JUNE 5, 2024
Even before the term “ESG” came into the limelight, we were actively investing in water conservation projects since 2001, measuring our GHG emissions since 2006, and reporting on our environmental efforts since 2004.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
And, the Cisco Refresh program, routinely refined since its 2001 inception, is a key component demonstrating how customer ROI can be increased through lower-cost alternatives than “green businesses.”. Additionally, 100 percent of new Cisco products and packaging will incorporate Circular Design Principles by FY25.
3BL Media
JULY 26, 2023
July 26, 2023 /3BL/ - Lenovo, a global technology powerhouse and employer of 77,000 workers around the world has been recognized as a best place to work for disability inclusion by the Disability Equality Index (DEI), the world’s most comprehensive benchmarking tool for the Fortune 1000 and Am Law 2001.
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Often, more than 80 percent of a company's climate impact occurs in the supply chain. Since its founding in 2001, iPoint has been constantly expanding its portfolio to realize its vision of building an integrated digital platform for the Circular Economy. Further information: www.ipoint-systems.com.
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 9, 2022
How can manufacturers – which have complex global supply chains and use large amounts of energy and raw materials – begin to move towards such targets? This includes emissions from our own operations, plus all upstream supply chain and downstream logistics. In addition, we will have a Net Zero supply chain by 2050.
3BL Media
JUNE 7, 2022
Founded in 2001 and headquartered near Washington, D.C., Around 200 million people around the world take a Teva medicine every day, and are served by one of the largest and most complex supply chains in the pharmaceutical industry.
3BL Media
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) The European Commission proposed CSDDD directive that, if passed, would require EU companies and potentially non-EU companies to establish due diligence procedures to address adverse impacts of their actions within companies and across the supply chain on human rights and the environment.
Gail Tverberg
JULY 22, 2024
China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. For example, moving significant manufacturing to China starting in late 2001 was a type of added complexity. A third problem with complexity is that it leads to supply chains for practically everything manufactured in the US or Europe needing to go through China.
Chris Hall
JULY 21, 2022
The GHG Protocol provides a family of greenhouse gas accounting and reporting standards that began with the ground-breaking Corporate Standard, launched in 2001. Scope 3 was introduced in 2001 in the first edition of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard. Companies can and do influence their indirect GHGs.
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Earlier this year, academic research noted that expenditure on indirect lobbying amounted to 32% of direct anti-climate lobbying spending by US-based companies between 2001-22. The research also found that companies spent on average US$277,000 per year on challenging climate-related policies.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
To combat this issue, international agreements, such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, finalized in 2001, have been established to control and phase out the production and use of these hazardous chemicals. These chemicals have had unforeseen adverse effects, largely because of their non-biodegradability.
Stanford Social Innovation
DECEMBER 16, 2021
has aimed to “Think Different” not only about its products but about something equally important: its supply chain. Since its modest beginnings in a California garage in 1976, Apple Inc. improved battery life).
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
John Lin, Chief Investment Officer—China Equities, AllianceBernstein: A long-term–minded investor is able to find, we think, a lot of opportunities as China embarks on the green transition , spanning from areas like sustainable transportation, the most prominent of which is really the electric vehicle and its supply chain.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
1 And that’s not yet touching upon the costs of removing it from supply chains and manufactured products, a legal Everest whose scale is only just beginning to be appraised. The price tag is unprecedented: remediation costs alone (i.e., Envirotec reviews recent developments.
B the Change
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The result: Rivanna Natural Designs , a Certified B Corporation that since 2001 has created planet-friendly alternatives to traditional trophies and plaques, and provided jobs for recent refugees and others in need of safe and rewarding employment. See the 2022 Best for the World lists.
Chris Hall
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Many of the more common environmental reporting errors which many companies made since the first edition of the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (GHG Corporate Protocol) was published way back in September 2001, have now been spotted and rectified.
Sustainable Development Network
APRIL 20, 2020
Europe Could Face More Drug Shortages as Coronavirus Squeezes Supplies’. Germany Would like to Localize Supply Chains, Nationalization Possible, Minister Says’. China Makes Massive Donation of Medical Supplies to Fight Coronavirus in Africa’, 23 March 2020. Reuters , 5 March 2020. Reuters , 13 March 2020. Smith, Gavin J.
Chris Hall
AUGUST 2, 2022
Research shows that forests absorbed twice the amount of CO2 they emitted between 2001 and 2019, sequestering 7.6 With so much capital tied to deforestation-related risks, it’s more important than ever that UK pension funds gain visibility of investee companies’ exposure to deforestation, both directly and along supply chains, it added. .
Stanford Social Innovation
OCTOBER 17, 2022
And while the term didn’t appear at all in global media publications in 2001 , it now appears in the media up to 5,000 times a year. Increasingly, these include risks related to jobs; human rights; supply chain resilience; and even business models, security, and competitiveness. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.
Chris Hall
MARCH 9, 2022
The report also found that climate resilient developments in urban areas support the adaptive capacity in more rural places, maintaining peri-urban supply chains of goods and services and financial flows. Positively, adaptation planning and implementation has continued to increase across all regions, the IPCC said.
Stanford Social Innovation
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The cluster was formed by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber in response to BBBRC and is designed to foster a resilient biopharmaceutical supply chain and to encourage global competitiveness through innovation.
3BL Media
MARCH 23, 2022
Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, there have been three times when the price of oil fell off a cliff - the middle of 2008, the middle of 2014, and the COVID crash at the beginning of 2020. Admittedly, a big part of the plan relates to diversifying the supply chain of natural gas.
Tobias Webb
MARCH 22, 2022
The advent of legal developments such as the EU due diligence regulations make it very clear that companies have a responsibility for their supply chains, and it is hard to see how a rush to leave the Russian market is consistent with that responsibility.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
The role of forests as carbon sinks and sources of biodiversity is well recognised, but action to clean-up supply chains is slow to reduce deforestation rates. Globally from 2001 to 2020, a total of 411Mha of tree cover was lost, equivalent to a 10% decrease in tree cover since 2000 and 165Gt of CO?
Corporate Knights
JUNE 3, 2022
The company was founded in 2001 to better match buildings’ electricity needs with the varying voltages coming from the power company. Along the way, LPS discovered that managing the electrical supply not only cuts a building’s energy bill, but optimizes the performance of the equipment inside – reducing maintenance and replacement costs.
Just Capital
JUNE 2, 2022
When Jack Welch retired as chairman and CEO of General Electric in 2001, he ended a 20-year tenure that took GE from a valuation of $14 billion to $600 billion, making it the most valuable company in the world. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images).
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