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Guide to PAS 2050 – How to assess the carbon footprint of goods and services

13th Nov 2008

Guide to PAS 2050 – How to assess the carbon footprint of goods and services While PAS 2050 provides a standard method for assessing a product carbon footprint, this guide, ‘Guide to PAS 2050′, will help businesses to implement the standard by offering specific and practical guidance.

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ISO standards contribute to meeting World Food Day 2008 challenge

6th Nov 2008

World Food Day 2008 addresses what has been categorised by many as one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and its impact on food security.

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The impact of the Chinese milk crisis on global supply chains

3rd Oct 2008

As the contamination of Chinese milk sends ripples through the global food industry, Eversheds lawyers Richard Matthews and Elizabeth Hyde lay out the due diligence procedures that food companies must go through when sourcing from outside the EU

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Tesco’s Carbon Labelling Podcast

8th Sep 2008

In this episode, we hear from Katherine Symonds, Tesco’s Sustainability Manager, about Tesco’s carbon labelling pilot project.

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Managing global supply chains: McKinsey Global Survey Results

15th Aug 2008

A McKinsey Quarterly survey finds that supply chain risk is rising sharply. However, supply chain management isn’t keeping pace: most respondents say that their companies aren’t meeting strategic goals for it, and relatively few have acted on the global trends with the most influence over supply chains.

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Coca-Cola Enterprises releases 3rd CRS Report

1st Aug 2008

Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE:CCE), the world’s largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third company-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report, Shape Tomorrow…Today.

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Richard Wilding Supply Chain Podcast – Episode 2

9th Jun 2008

This podcast is episode two of a three part series. The series is made up of interviews with Professor Richard Wilding from Cranfield University, one of Europe’s top supply chain management experts.

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Supply Chain Video Podcast – Episode 1

13th May 2008

Professor Richard Wildingof Cranfield University introduces the first in a series of Supply Chain video podcasts on BusinessAssurance.com.

In this episode, he talks about the definition of the supply chain, ‘cradle to grave’ thinking and the global nature of today’s supply chains.

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The green product life cycle – beginning to end, and beyond

9th May 2008

Products are increasingly being designed, manufactured and packaged with a new focus on the end of their life cycle – and beyond

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Tropical insects first to be affected by climate change?

6th May 2008

Scientists also warned that there will be other effects of global warming that could also have a serious impact on tropical regions, particularly on food crops.

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