The link between business value creation and ESG
GreenBiz
APRIL 19, 2023
and EcoVadis connects sound ESG management across supply chains with better margins. A new report from Bain & Co.
A new era for procurement: Value creation across the supply chain
McKinsey Sustainabilty
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The past few years of upheaval have underscored procurement’s importance for generating value. The next few years could make its contributions even more critical.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain
GreenBiz
MARCH 29, 2021
Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain. Many serious concerns have hung over the supply chains of global corporations for decades, ranging from human rights issues to lack of transparency about sourcing and other matters. But what defines an ethical supply chain and what does it look like in practice? .
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Expo City Dubai Joins Forces With EcoVadis To Assess Sustainability Risks and Improve Performance of Its Supply Chain
3BL Media
JANUARY 11, 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, & PARIS & NEW YORK, January 11, 2024 /3BL/ - Expo City Dubai, the legacy site of Expo 2020 Dubai and the venue of the recent COP28 climate summit, has partnered with EcoVadis to assess and improve the sustainability performance of its supply chain.
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Definitive Guide to ESG
GreenBiz
MAY 2, 2022
By proactively addressing impacts of ESG, like climate change, companies can better predict future innovation to avoid supply chain disruption by advancing ways in which materials are sourced and ensuring the global economy drives value creation with ESG elements in mind.
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ESG Regulatory Impacts to the Middle Market
3BL Media
JANUARY 12, 2024
By Srinand Yalamanchili , Mallory Thomas , Brianna Hardy With the middle market being the bulk of the supply chain, it's important to understand the ESG -- environmental, social and governance -- pressures from public companies that are trickling down and impacting the middle market.
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Global Energy Perspective 2023: Industrial electrification outlook
McKinsey Sustainabilty
JANUARY 16, 2024
Electrification is a critical decarbonization lever, but faces several supply chain challenges that will need to be overcome, representing significant value-creation opportunities.
The link between business value creation and ESG
Environmental News Bits
MAY 23, 2023
and EcoVadis connects sound ESG management across supply chains with better margins. Read the full story at GreenBiz. A new report from Bain & Co.
Sustainable Procurement Is the Cornerstone for Business Resilience and Growth
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Co-developed with Accenture , the Barometer reveals procurement’s untapped potential to drive business value through sustainable supply chain programs, and transform into a key agent of an organization’s resilience and growth in a rapidly changing world.
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Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The crisis also has multiplied the insecurity of some workers and left some precious material supply chains, such as cashmere and exotic skins, even more vulnerable. . Optimized distribution of value creation is important in a context where the pandemic has rendered raw material and manufacturing workers more vulnerable.
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Driving Sustainability With Better Business Spend Management: How Organizations Can Use Coupa and EcoVadis to Reduce Risk and Drive Value
3BL Media
JANUARY 25, 2022
It has also evolved to be a key contributor in value creation and bottom-line return on investment. But to support sustainable procurement processes and optimize decision making with respect to supply chain management, organizations need to bring together the right data from the right sources into one place.
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ESG on the Earnings Call: Nasdaq Data Shows Huge Quarterly Jump in Conversations
3BL Media
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The most popular ESG topics over the quarter were climate transition, sustainability and supply chain management, followed by company culture and human capital management. Nasdaq’s figures include big quarter-on-quarter jumps in conversations around some of the biggest ESG themes. These issues are pretty hard to ignore."
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2020
We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. They can have a profound positive impact across economic, social and environmental value creation.
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Mercedes-Benz Pledges to Reduce Emissions from Production by 80% by 2030
ESG Today
MARCH 30, 2023
The new ambition was unveiled as part of a series of ESG-related goals and initiatives announced by the company at its ESG Conference to investors and analysts today, encompassing areas including renewable energy, supply chain decarbonization, circular economy and human rights, among others. ESG enables long-term value creation.
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Future Economy Forum Highlights Solutions at COP27 To Scale a New Economic Mainstream – Beyond Sustainability – Toward Regenerative Models for Business & Economy
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Highlight: Natura &Co CEO Recognized for Pioneering Regenerative Value Creation Joao Paulo Ferreira, CEO of Natura and Natura &Co in Latin America was recognized for his leadership of the world’s largest B Corp - the group of companies including Natura, Aesop, The Body Shop, & Avon.
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TCW Acquires Engine No. 1’s Sustainable Transformation-Focused ETF Business
ESG Today
JULY 26, 2023
The firm focuses on creating value by helping companies transform their businesses to be sustainable, and targets companies that can drive long-term value by positioning to benefit from once-in-a generation transformations such as the energy transition and supply chain onshoring. 1, said: “Engine No.
Athian and Elanco Animal Health Team Up to Transform Food Production through Methane Reduction
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
2 Creating an inset market model that works with recognized supply chain partners makes it easier for farmers to measure and implement rigorous verifications, will help break these barriers to entry and accelerate progress. “As This is a game changer for value creation throughout the food chain, and it’s just the start.
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Change the World: By Focusing on the Human Impact of the Climate Crisis, Companies Can Turn Risks Into Opportunities
3BL Media
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Only then will companies be able to respond with the innovation and value creation that can, without hyperbole, change the future of the world. When it comes to their own value chain, companies can incentivize and enable their partners (including medium, small, and micro-enterprises) to adopt low carbon processes.
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Invenergy, BW Offshore partner in bid for 5.4 GW wind project offshore Scotland
Renewable Energy World
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
. “Together, we represent a unique blend of expertise and ambition to deliver the next phase of energy transition in Scotland, bringing substantial international project development experience and a strong track record for local value creation,” said BW Offshore CEO Marco Beenen.
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Guest Post – The Rise of the ESG Controller: Shaping Sustainable Business Practices
ESG Today
APRIL 11, 2024
These risks may include supporting ESG claims (avoiding greenwashing), supply chain disruptions, regulatory changes, and human rights violations. The ESG Controller can serve as a catalyst for innovation and value creation.
The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy
GreenBiz
MAY 29, 2020
The early stages of the COVID-19 crisis have revealed the brittleness of many global supply chains, not limited to but illustrated by medical equipment availability issues, for example. Supply Chain. Circular Economy. Risk & Resilience. Resilience. Policy & Politics. Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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Wesco International’s Annual Sustainability Report Now Available; Sets 2030 Goals for Landfill Waste, Green House Gas Emissions and Safety
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Wesco International (NYSE: WCC), a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, issued its annual Sustainability Report. SOURCE: 3BL Alerts. In 2016 Wesco created five specific environmental goals, most of which were met at the end of 2021.
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Electric tractors, agribots and regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 17, 2020
We are really looking at value creation from the customer perspective." . But given how much the big food companies are banking on convincing their supply chains to invest in regenerative agriculture, it would be a mistake to overlook the role that electric, autonomous vehicles can play in the field. Innovation.
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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022
Carlos Sanchez
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Besides, Danone’s CEO stepped down after investors blamed him for failing to balance shareholder value creation and sustainability. Complex Supply Chains designed to run efficiently failed under the pandemic. Firms will need to publish material and quality ESG data to demonstrate their value creation beyond profits.
ESG Acronyms and What They Mean
3BL Media
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Integrated Reporting Framework (IR Framework) The International IR Framework is a principles-based framework that focuses on three principles: value creation, value preservation and the identification and retention of financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social and natural capital.
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Launch of Human Rights and Child Labour Indices for Battery Passport
3BL Media
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Child labour and human rights violations are a critical and growing issue in the battery supply chain, particularly as demand for batteries continues to increase to achieve the green transition. We must keep the people across our entire value chain top of mind. Everyone must take part in the value creation.
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Preparing for the Double Materiality Assessment: The Next Step in CSRD Reporting
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
It identifies and prioritises the climate-related impacts that can affect a company's performance, value creation, reputation, and legal position, as well as capturing a company's ESG impact. A double materiality assessment is a crucial foundation for strategic ESG planning, budget allocation, risk management and reporting.
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Carlyle Acquires Majority Stake in Sustainability Consultancy Anthesis
ESG Today
JULY 3, 2023
The firm’s integrated service areas include Strategy & Governance, Supply Chain & Operations, Sustainable Products & Services, Brand & Communications, Education & Culture, Cities & Environments, and Transactions & Finance.
Sustainable Brands e-Commerce Platform Flora Raises $9 Million
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Flora’s platform uses proprietary technology and algorithms to identify sustainable brands and evaluate their operational and financial performance, sustainability impact, and value creation opportunities.
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DuPont Publishes 2022 Sustainability Report
3BL Media
MAY 2, 2022
Our sustainability strategy is helping power our transformation as a premier multi-industrial company and strengthening our portfolio to deliver long-term value creation. It’s at the core of how we innovate, operate our businesses, and empower our people every day.
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Boosting your ESG performance reporting
Sustainability Matters
APRIL 4, 2023
Without a technology strategy that supports the collection of high-quality data along the entire value chain, companies will not be able to report data or demonstrate progress against these commitments. Supply chain visibility has many advantages for today’s global and agile businesses.
Charting the Path Forward Faster: Reflections on Climate Week NYC 2023
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
CFOs are uniquely positioned to reshape the future of corporate finance and investment as a catalyst for growth, value creation, and impact. Meanwhile, SPARX Logistics and TransVoyant introduced Eco , an AI-driven solution intended to help businesses monitor and reduce carbon emissions across their supply chains.
Investors Alerted to Consumption Tipping Point
Chris Hall
JULY 7, 2023
Further, investors need to be assessing whether investee companies have conducted a forward-looking analysis of how physical risks – like an increase in natural catastrophes – may impact their supply chain and current value proposition, as well as how increased consumption may exacerbate those risks, it added. “More stress testing, more (..)
How the JUST 100 Is Reshaping American Business
3BL Media
MARCH 1, 2022
This year, the top three concerns of the American public included paying a fair living wage, creating US jobs, and prioritizing stakeholder value creation. “Just” companies are assessed based on their performance across five core categories: Workers, Communities, Shareholders & Governance, Customers, and Environment.
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From design to recycling, opportunities abound to make solar more circular
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
As Radavicus described: “If you could manage circularity in the rate that you can recover these materials, Europe can create its own local supply chain and can increase its supply of these materials, which usually comes from outside.
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Driving Transformation in the Wake of London Climate Action Week
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Scope 3 (namely a company’s emissions within their supply chain) has driven a notable power shift across infrastructure and manufacturing with the more ambitious B2Bs now moving away from compliance-led sustainability, which was dictated by a box-ticking exercise for their customers, in favour of devising strategies that focus on innovation.
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MedTech Market Leaders Share Their Long-Term Business Strategy at CECP's CEO Investor Forum @ The MedTech Conference
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic was a pivotal moment in healthcare, helping fuel perpetual value creation, particularly as many companies realized that technology has unlimited growth potential. Supply chain issues cannot be solved by any one company alone.
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Sofidel: Building a Better Future
3BL Media
DECEMBER 29, 2022
Sofidel pursues the promotion of the culture of health (from production environments to the hygienic-sanitary characteristics of its products up to their distribution) as one of the basic elements of its value creation process and as a factor in people's development. Quality Education. Goal Partnership.
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Is TCFD a catalyst for transformational climate adaptation?
GreenBiz
MARCH 24, 2021
Corporations need to explore the social and broader contextual, market, employee, customer and supply-chain environmental/physical climate risks, and the adaptation actions they are implementing or could undertake as well, if they are to truly consider the interests of all of their stakeholders.
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Sustainability trends 2023
Carlos Sanchez
DECEMBER 18, 2022
Examples are the Swiss art 964 and the German supply chain act. The work of the Value Balancing Alliance and Harvard’s newly formed International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) aim at measuring companies’ value creation. Thank you GRI! Source VBA.
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A $500 Billion+ Market Opportunity for Real Impact: Three Ways Corporations Can Engage in Social Procurement
James Militzer
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Direct spending offers a multitude of opportunities for a corporation to integrate social enterprises into its supply chain. Given these multifaceted benefits, it’s clear why social procurement is increasingly considered an effective and practical way for corporations to achieve both social value creation and competitive advantages.
Assessing Last-Mile Distributors’ Business Performance and Impact: Using a Diagnostic Tool to Reveal Key Areas of Strength and Improvement
James Militzer
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
The tool is segmented along three axes that are key to driving value-creation and impact: Do you have a holistic value proposition? The second axis that’s key to value-creation and impact is the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery model, which can be assessed via a range of KPIs. Are you equipped to grow?
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NBIM Divestments Driven by Social, Governance Risks
Chris Hall
MARCH 4, 2022
As a long-term investor, we are looking for real value creation over time and not short-term gains that might be achieved with aggressive tax planning,” the report said. Corporates with overly aggressive tax planning strategies are considered high-risk by NBIM, because they are more likely to be penalised by changes in tax rules. “As
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Bayer Showcases Leadership in Breakthrough Innovations and Sustainable, Tailored Solutions to Meet Global Challenges in Agriculture
3BL Media
AUGUST 19, 2022
“Bayer remains committed to providing farmers with the tools they need to be productive and sustainable stewards of their land, especially now as they navigate through current disruptions to agriculture’s supply chains.”.
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