The next net-zero frontier: emissions-free supply chains
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Any credible corporate net-zero target requires a focus on the decarbonization of supply chains – with collaboration a key driver of change.
Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal
GreenBiz
MARCH 16, 2021
Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal. The ambition is part of the company's net-zero carbon emissions by 2030 goal, which it set in February. . “I I know many companies have different definitions of net-zero. Deonna Anderson. Tue, 03/16/2021 - 05:00.
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Inside Salesforce’s bold play for supply-chain leadership
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2021
Inside Salesforce’s bold play for supply-chain leadership. Walmart’s Project Gigaton , for example, aims to cut 1 billion tons of greenhouse gases from its global value chain by the end of this decade. Other companies have created similar, if less ambitious, supply-chain initiatives. Supply Chain.
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Leading the Way To Net-Zero: Lenovo’s Science-Based Emissions Reduction Targets and 2050 Net-Zero Strategy
3BL Media
JANUARY 2, 2025
and net-zero through the Business Ambition for 1.5C campaign, an official partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Race to Zero campaign. On January 19, 2023, Lenovo announced its SBTi validated target to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.
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DP World Accelerates Decarbonization Efforts Through Net Zero Supply Chain Initiative
3BL Media
JULY 23, 2024
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 23, 2024 /3BL/ - DP World , a global leader in supply chain solutions, is pleased to engage as a Pilot Partner in the Net Zero Supply Chain (NZSC) Initiative, a collaborative effort dedicated to advancing the decarbonization of Canada's freight-transportation supply chains.
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China’s solar supply chain domination a threat to net-zero, says IEA
Renew Economy
JULY 7, 2022
IEA report warns that China’s across-the-board domination of the global solar supply chain stands in threat to the smooth transition to net zero emissions. The post China’s solar supply chain domination a threat to net-zero, says IEA appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Clorox Announces Partnership With M2030 To Advance Supply Chain Climate Action
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
November 5, 2024 /3BL/ - The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) announced a strategic partnership with Manufacture 2030, or M2030, to help Clorox's suppliers meet their carbon reduction targets and advance the company's long-term goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. OAKLAND, Calif., For more information, please visit manufacture2030.com.
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Building Resilient Clean Energy Supply Chains: The Role of Infrastructure and Investment
3BL Media
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The global race to net-zero emissions has put supply chains under a sustainability microscope. A joint report by DP World and Canary Creative, Closing the Gap on Clean Energy Supply-Chain Sustainability , dives into the challenges and presents strategies to ensure supply chains are secure, resilient, and sustainable.
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Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote
GreenBiz
MARCH 25, 2021
Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote. Unilever has become one of the first multinational companies in the world to publish a corporate net-zero action plan for oversight by its shareholders, as it prepares to put the climate strategy to an advisory vote at its upcoming AGM in early May. Michael Holder.
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SBTi Launches Draft Net Zero Standard for Automotive Sector
ESG Today
JUNE 16, 2025
The organizations’ key functions include defining and promoting best practice in emissions reductions and net-zero targets in line with climate science, providing technical assistance to companies who set science-based targets, and providing companies with independent assessment and validation of their emissions reduction targets.
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Supply chains are key for carbon reduction in the food sector
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
At VERGE 21, representatives of the food sector including Walmart and Maple Leaf Foods highlighted working on innovation from inside their supply chains to meet net-zero commitments.
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HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2020
HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century. HSBC has become the latest bank to commit to achieving net-zero financed emissions, announcing Monday that it intends to align its portfolio of investments and debt financing with global climate targets by mid-century. Cecilia Keating.
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Henkel Defines Net-Zero Targets
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
DÜSSELDORF, Germany, November 4, 2024 /3BL/ - In line with its ambitions for sustainability within its agenda for purposeful growth, Henkel has defined a net-zero roadmap, substantially extending its targets for emissions reduction along the value chain. We all have to take responsibility and help limit global warming to 1.5°C,
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Electrification could squeeze CO2 out of industrial supply chains
GreenBiz
JUNE 9, 2021
Electrification could squeeze CO2 out of industrial supply chains. In a net-zero carbon world, the low-carbon solution wins. With this in mind, the remaining years of this decade will be defined by tackling value chain emissions. Jean Haggerty. Wed, 06/09/2021 - 00:10. Missed VERGE Electrify?
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Episode 268: Doing the math on net zero; taking food waste off the menu
GreenBiz
MAY 14, 2021
Episode 268: Doing the math on net zero; taking food waste off the menu. Is "net zero" much ado about nothing? Infrastructure, green finance and net zero. The link between net zero and supply chain innovation. Doing the math on net zero (21:30). Heather Clancy.
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SAP Sustainability Data Exchange Now Available To Help Companies Achieve Net-Zero Goals
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
This is where innovative technology plays a huge role in efficiently acting on climate goals and achieving net-zero emissions. While it’s relatively straightforward to control and reduce a company’s direct emissions, mitigating those that arise along the whole supply chain requires a lot of time, collaboration, and data sharing.
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Companies won't reach their science-based targets without suppliers on board
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2021
There is a close correlation between the companies managing their supply chains and setting science-based targets. In order to meet net-zero targets, companies must include their supply chains in their environmental strategies.
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Evaluating the Cost of a Net-Zero Future
GreenBiz
JUNE 7, 2022
The past three years have seen mounting challenges compound on a global scale – from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain disruptions, to fuel shortages, energy security issues, and extreme weather events – raising the stakes within an already complex purchasing environment. Today’s markets are more volatile than ever.
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Mars Targets Segregated Responsibly Sourced Cocoa Supply Chain by 2030
ESG Today
JANUARY 7, 2025
Snacking, food, and pet care products provider Mars announced that it aims to achieve a physically segregated global cocoa supply chain by 2030, building on its existing commitment to only use responsibly sourced cocoa in its products by creating greater transparency in its cocoa supply chain.
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Robeco to Engage Companies on Deforestation, Transition Materials Supply Chain Sustainability
ESG Today
JANUARY 7, 2025
Robeco said that its new engagement theme targeting the transition metals supply chain comes as the focus of climate change initiatives increasingly moves towards the achievement of net zero emissions, setting transition as a principle topic.
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How Alessandra Hammond Makes Our Supply Chain More Sustainable
3BL Media
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Alessandra Hammond connects to our purpose through her work as the global business operations lead for Integrated Supply Chain. She and her team handle various functions to support the operations of the Integrated Supply Chain teams, including systems enablement, training, data and insights, supplier diversity and sustainability.
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Lenovo's Journey to Net-Zero: Natural Resources Conservation
3BL Media
JULY 27, 2022
DESCRIPTION: How does a global technology leader make progress toward that “Mars shot” of net-zero emissions? Lenovo is proud to be working with Science Based Targets initiative to establish goals that support our vision to reach net-zero by 2050. KEYWORDS: ADR:LNVGY, Lenovo, Lenovo net zero.
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Ammonia: Transitioning to a Net-Zero Future
GreenBiz
MARCH 28, 2022
Learn how diverse industries are collaborating and innovating to advance a net-zero future for ammonia. Read about processes, technologies and markets being leveraged today and the unique partnerships that have formed and continue to form, to advance a net-zero future for ammonia.
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Nestlé, Mars to Fund Incentives for Farmers to Cut Dairy Supply Chain Emissions
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Food, beverage and snacking companies Nestl and Mars announced new agreements with New Zealand-based dairy cooperative Fonterra, which will see the companies funding incentives to farmers to lower emissions, and reduce the climate footprint of their dairy supply chains. The co-op has also set an ambition to achieve net zero by 2050.
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3 Pivotal Advances That Will Unlock Supply Chain Decarbonization
GreenBiz
AUGUST 23, 2023
in the value chain) in most industries, the path to net zero is simply not achievable without decarbonizing the supply chain. This session explores this problem space and three pivotal advances that are poised to unlock supply chain decarbonization within and across industries.
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Beyond wars and pandemics, the climate crisis is the greatest risk to food supply chains
Corporate Knights
MARCH 28, 2022
This disruption, like that from the pandemic, highlights some of the risks built into our highly efficient, trade-dependent food supply chain. Sustainable supply chain standards and guidance for food and agriculture companies are currently evolving, meaning that the plane is being built as it flies.
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$1.6 Trillion Investor Group Pushes HSBC to Confirm Net Zero Commitment
ESG Today
MAY 5, 2025
trillion in assets under management, led by responsible investing NGO ShareAction, called on HSBC at its AGM on Friday to restate its net zero commitments, noting that recent moves by the bank have created deeply concerning signals around its climate priorities. A group of 30 investors* representing $1.6
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How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation
GreenBiz
JUNE 28, 2022
Lean: WEAR and no TEAR How circularity transformation is impacting supply chain innovation What goes up must come down To arrest the growing effect on nature and curtail the rise in temperatures, countries across the globe are devising measures to rejuvenate Mother Earth. The aim is to reverse the temperature by 1.5-2.0 deg Celsius.
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Getting to Grips With Sustainability in the Supply Chain
3BL Media
JULY 8, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Covid-19 has instigated significant changes in global procurement and supply chain operations. The global lockdowns exposed supply chain weaknesses, which were pervasive even before the pandemic, especially sub-par labor practices. Understanding supply chain complexity.
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Climate Action for Suppliers Helps Make HP's Supply Chain More Sustainable
3BL Media
JULY 14, 2022
With one of the largest supply chains in the IT industry, reducing upstream emissions benefits the value chain and the planet. In 2021, HP announced a range of ambitious climate action targets , including a commitment to be net zero by 2040 — a full decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. SOURCE: HP Inc.
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The three keys to kickstarting Canada's net-zero industrial policy
Corporate Knights
JUNE 19, 2023
With Budget 2023’s “made-in-Canada plan” released in late March, the federal government has laid out its net-zero industrial policy – a response to the U.S. The made-in-Canada plan seeks to bolster manufacturing at home and secure a place for Canadian firms and products in global supply chains.
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Is the LNG industry gaslighting the path to net-zero?
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Ottawa is currently developing a transition taxonomy – essentially a guideline as to which types of investments are appropriate in the transition to a net-zero economy. However, natural gas still produces CO2 emissions and expanding supply and demand is inconsistent with net-zero plans.
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25 tech and infrastructure problems to solve before we can reach net zero
McKinsey Sustainabilty
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
These relate not only to the development and deployment of low-emissions technologies, but also to the supply chains and underlying infrastructure that need to be transformed, write Mekala Krishnan, Chris Bradley, Humayun Tai, and Tiago Devesa in Harvard Business Review.
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Essity's Journey to Net Zero: Fossil Fuel Free Production
3BL Media
JUNE 9, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Going fossil free in an industry that is traditionally energy intensive is one of our most important and challenging tasks in becoming net zero emitters by 2050. Learn more about Essity's Journey to Net Zero here. Download Essity's Journey to Net Zero report here. SOURCE: Essity.
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Mars claims palm oil is 'deforestation-free' after ditching hundreds of suppliers
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 7, 2020
confectionary, food and pet care giant Mars claims to have eliminated deforestation from its palm oil supply chain after shrinking the number of mills it works with from 1,500 to a few hundred, it announced this week. Business as usual will not drive the transformational change that's needed," Reid said.
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For High-Tech Supply Chains, CO2 Emission Tracking Is Sustainable Business Currency
3BL Media
JULY 25, 2022
Make no mistake, for high tech and every industry, net zero is a bottom-line issue. IDC researchers predicted that by 2024, to improve long-term supply chain profitability, 70% of manufacturers in global supply chains will invest in software tools supporting sustainability and a circular economy business model.
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PSCI Endorses My Green Lab’s Converge Supplier Initiative To Cut Scope 3 Emissions in Pharma
3BL Media
JUNE 18, 2025
SAN DIEGO, June 18, 2025 /3BL/ - My Green Lab®, the world’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing sustainability in scientific research, today announces that its Converge Supplier Initiative has been endorsed by the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI).
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Essity's Journey to Net Zero: Zero Production Waste
3BL Media
JUNE 23, 2022
Learn more about Essity's Journey to Net Zero here. Download Essity's Journey to Net Zero report here. Tweet me: Learn how @essity is working to actively turn production waste into a valuable resource with the target of reaching zero production waste by 2030.
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Ecologi Acquires Carbon Measurement Solution Provider Net Zero Now
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
UK-based Climate solutions-focused platform Ecologi announced the acquisition of carbon measurement and reduction platform Net Zero Now. Net Zero Now, founded in 2021, provides a platform that enables businesses to follow a sector-specific path to carbon net zero using tools to calculate, reduce and compensate for their GHG emissions.
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Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions
GreenBiz
JULY 8, 2020
Amazon's plans to decarbonize its shipping supply chain isn't just focused on electrifying its delivery vans. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, and says it will make sure half of Amazon shipments are net-zero by 2030. Amazon to buy bio jet fuel to lower air cargo emissions.
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SLB Named Sustainability Award Finalist for Supply Chain Decarbonization
3BL Media
OCTOBER 2, 2024
SLB is among the 2024 Reuters Sustainability Awards finalists in the Net Zero: Supply Chain Decarbonization category. The supply chain decarbonization category showcases sustainable supply chain practices and highlights how companies are managing and transforming their supply chain to reduce GHG emissions. Finalists
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Walmart, Ørsted, and Schneider Electric Announce First Cohort for Renewable Energy Supply Chain Program: Gigaton PPA
3BL Media
OCTOBER 18, 2022
The company aspires to have its own carbon neutral supply chain by 2040 and recently extended its 100% renewable electricity target to all suppliers. . This effort aligns with Ørsted’s own net-zero by 2040 supply chain initiative - we understand firsthand that in the realm of decarbonization there are no competitors, only partners.
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Discover What's Next at GreenBiz 25: The Premier Event for Sustainable Business Leaders
3BL Media
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Dont miss your opportunity to learn whats next in decarbonization, disclosure, nature, supply chains, strategic communications, change management and more. Decarbonize and Drawdown Focus: Energy, Nature-based Solutions, Carbon Markets Supplier Collaboration for Scope 3 Targets Moving Towards Net Zero Logistics 6.
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Scottish universities initiative to “drive the transition to net-zero electronics”
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 14, 2024
The Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies Centre (REACT) was announced on 7 October, one of five new centres to share in £25m from a new UKRI programme intended to support the innovation necessary for net zero. The University of Glasgow will lead the REACT project.
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