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LRQA Acquires Supply Chain Carbon Management Solutions Provider RESET Carbon

ESG Today

London-based assurance services provider LRQA announced the acquisition of supply chain carbon management solutions provider RESET Carbon, in a moves described by LRQA as aimed at strengthening its environmental solutions to help clients meet growing regulatory requirements.

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Driving Sustainability: FedEx's Commitment to Carbon Neutral Operations and a Greener Global Supply Chain by 2040

3BL Media

Originally published in FedEx's 2024 Global Economic Impact Report Delivering a more sustainable future FedEx works hard every day to make global supply chains smarter for everyone by leveraging advanced technologies to help optimize logistics.

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LRQA Acquires Energy Transition Consulting Firm EcoEngineers

ESG Today

Founded in 2009, Iowa-based EcoEngineers was initially founded to steer low-carbon fuel producers through the complexities of emerging energy regulations in the U.S. London-based assurance services provider LRQA announced that it has acquired energy transition-focused consulting, auditing and advisory firm EcoEngineers.

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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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GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies?

GreenBiz

The pandemic has put into sharper focus a number of aspects of corporate performance, including business contributions to biodiversity loss and the resulting increased potential for disease outbreaks; and the need for more resilient supply chains, especially for essential goods such as food and medicine, as Guillot pointed out recently on GreenBiz.

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A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging

GreenBiz

The Consumer Goods Forum and others also see a need to take fiber sourcing to the next level, reaching beyond responsible sourcing for each company’s supply chain to landscape-level approaches that reach additional suppliers within a region and support infrastructure and policies to get to a " forest positive " approach. .

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African MBA programs are reclaiming sustainability in business education

Corporate Knights

Since becoming a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education in 2009, GIBS has woven the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deeply into its curriculum, Chiba explains. Ten years ago, sustainability wasn’t part of the conversation, and the program was built around a narrow curriculum.