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Vestas: Powering Quality in the Supply Chain

3BL Media

Product defects are one possible cause, but how can manufacturers resolve quality issues when supply chains are so complex? But the wind energy sector is highly competitive, experiences rapid innovation, and is prone to massive supply chain issues. And repairs are costly, too.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials. As Ananas Anam grows, so do its social and sustainability efforts as it further builds a Philippines-based supply chain and promotes local culture and resilience. .

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Closing the climate funding gap is key to Canada's prosperity

Corporate Knights

Emissions today are higher than they were in 1995, and in the 17 years since they peaked in 2007 they have declined a total of just 11%. Bringing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions to a level anywhere in the vicinity of zero, net or otherwise, in the next 30 years will require a radical departure from what we’ve seen the last three decades.

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Legacy & CSRHub ESG Media Partnership

3BL Media

This will provide the lens that a brand’s board can use to ensure they are investing with ‘good’ media companies, like any other part of their supply chain. Media is a huge part of a brand’s supply chain and our service offering allows brands to consciously invest, in line with core values”.

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DP World Strengthens Commitment to Sustainability by Enrolling Three Additional Terminals in Green Marine

3BL Media

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, November 19, 2024 – DP World , a global leader in logistics and supply chain solutions, has deepened its commitment to environmental stewardship by enrolling three additional Canadian terminals – Vancouver, Nanaimo, and Saint John – in the Green Marine program.

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Nike in Hot Water with Investors Over Workers’ Rights

Chris Hall

A proposal on worker pay may have failed to pass, but shareholders continue to call for transparency and supply chain due diligence. Narayanasamy pointed out that Nike’s own published supply chain disclosures from 28 February 2007 and 28 April 2008 show it was producing products from Violet Apparel at this point.