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Here's how major car companies rank on 'clean' supply chains

Corporate Knights

Ford and Mercedes-Benz lead the automotive world in working to clean up their supply chains, according to a new report with rankings endorsed by a labor and environmental civil society coalition. But the car industry is far from achieving a “truly clean car” and progress is “lackluster,” the scorecard notes.

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Waste Is Only Waste if We Waste It: Demystifying Anaerobic Digestion

3BL Media

The benefits of anaerobic digestion for recycling various kinds of organic farm waste are far-reaching — including waste management, renewable energy generation, GHG reduction, economic advantages and agricultural sustainability. As with food production and food waste, you can’t have dairy cows without manure.

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Tesco to Reduce Emissions in Forest and Farm Supply Chains

ESG Today

UK-based multinational grocery retailer Tesco announced a series of new climate-focused commitments, including interim goals to reduce Scope 3 emissions originating in its supply chain at the forest and agricultural level, and a target to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions from its own operations by 85% by 2030.

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F-Gases: A Critical Link to Decarbonization

3BL Media

Decarbonizing our economy is the defining challenge of our time. To date, the European Union (EU) has been a global leader on decarbonization, setting the planet’s most ambitious emissions reductions targets. Moreover, such a policy is likely to generate unintended consequences.

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Supply Chains – The Next Frontier In Climate Action

We Mean Business Coalition

All companies will need to work with and support the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their supply chain – and the SME Climate Hub can help them do it. If bigger businesses fail to build resilience in their supply chains by supporting SMEs to decarbonize, the long term economic and climatic consequences will be severe.

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Planet Textiles 2023: Industry Stakeholders Agree on Need To Accelerate Collective Action and Collaboration to Future-Proof Global Supply Chains

3BL Media

Under the theme, Future-Proofing Global Supply Chains , the event took place over two days and brought together over 200 delegates to network with industry peers and share learnings and best practices on how collective action can help accelerate industry transformation and future-proof global supply chains.

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How Clorox is Tackling Sustainability Challenges & Mobilizing Employees

3BL Media

We’ve taken measurable actions to tackle our operational emissions and waste footprints while mobilizing our teammates, supply chain partners and consumers to do the same. As a business, Clorox has long understood that sustainability is not simply a tagline — it’s an intentional and integrated part of our IGNITE strategy.