supply chain management

Consumer goods giants team up to tackle fossil fuel feedstocks

Technology

Consumer goods giants team up to tackle fossil fuel feedstocks

Unilever, BASF, and Tata Steel among the firms to sign up to Flue2Chem initiative, which aims to use captured industrial gases to make consumer products

clock 03 February 2023 • 2 min read
What's the best way to incentivise supplier sustainability?

Management

What's the best way to incentivise supplier sustainability?

How are some of the world's largest corporates encouraging their suppliers to enhance their sustainability performance?

clock 15 July 2022 • 7 min read
1.5C Supply Chain Leaders publish new guide to help firms tackle supplier emissions

Supply chain

1.5C Supply Chain Leaders publish new guide to help firms tackle supplier emissions

Group of top businesses committed to slashing their value chain emissions have pooled together resources to encourage others to decarbonize their supply chains

clock 03 November 2021 • 2 min read
'Climate Promise' Unilever ramps up supply chain decarbonisation efforts

Carbon Accounting

'Climate Promise' Unilever ramps up supply chain decarbonisation efforts

Suppliers committing to the promise will be asked to set a 50 per cent greenhouse gas emission reduction target

clock 23 September 2021 • 3 min read

Supply chain

Olam Food Ingredients seeks to chart sustainable 'cashew trail'

Global food giant announces new targets to tackle poverty and enhance environmental sustainability across the cashew supply chain

clock 23 June 2021 • 2 min read

Supply chain

Top brands strengthen links between net zero goals and supply chain innovation

A host of multinationals are collaborating to accelerate efforts to decarbonise their sprawling supply chains

clock 14 May 2021 • 6 min read

Supply chain

Engagement, transparency, and accountability: Consumer Goods Forum launches blueprint to tackle global deforestation crisis

The CGF has published a report detailing its strategy for tackling deforestation related to the production of four key agricultural commodities: palm oil, soy, beef, and pulp and fibre-based packaging

clock 01 April 2021 • 4 min read

Supply chain

Over $50bn is at risk from deforestation - but just one per cent of firms are taking 'best practice' action

New CDP survey of corporate efforts to combat deforestation for agricultural commodities have found an increasing number of firms are taking at least some action - but only a tiny fraction are on top of the problem

clock 22 March 2021 • 7 min read

Supplier

New private sector coalition launched in bid to reverse biodiversity loss

Named the UK Business and Biodiversity Forum, the new group will support British businesses as they try to tackle worsening biodiversity impacts and risks

clock 18 March 2021 • 2 min read

Supply chain

Seven commodities continue to fuel the destruction of the world's forests - how can they be stopped?

A new analysis by WRI has calculated the precise role of seven major agricultural commodities in driving global tree cover loss, but what can be done to turn back the tide?

clock 11 February 2021 • 7 min read