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Voluntary Carbon Market tripled in 2006

14th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

The voluntary carbon market tripled in 2006, according to a comprehensive research paper by Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance. The need for a standardised methodology for all voluntary carbon schemes has never been more relevant than now. What is being done to bring a stronger sense of confidence to the voluntary market? The Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) is currently being updated, with version 2 due to be published in the coming months.

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Supply Chain Assurance Podcast, Episode 1

10th Sep 2007

Series of interviews with key Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) experts on supply chain issues and opportunities for businesses today.

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Dow Chemical and Union Pacific Railroad Working on Supply Chain Security

7th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

Dow and Union Pacific have joined together with emergency responders across California to improve and test their safety and security skills in chemical rail transportation.The exercises are taking place all over California, as part of a road show.”We take very seriously our obligation to responsibly manufacture and move our  oducts,” said Henry Ward, director of transportation safety […]

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Thoughts from the Global Food Safety Summit, Prague

7th Sep 2007 by Cor Groenveld

I just got back from the Global Food Safety Summit 2007 in Prague. The event featured stakeholders from the food manufacturers, retail, food services and suppliers of food ingredients. It was a series of presentations, interactive sessions and individual meetings, all based around the issues of food safety in the supply chain. The attendees and […]

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What Assures Consumers?

1st Sep 2007

New global research sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, M&S and the Co-op shows that consumers want better independent, impartial assurance of corporations’ environmental claims.

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IRM Risk Forum

Event: 11th Sep 2007 – 13th Sep 2007

The Risk Forum is the IRM’s annual flagship conference and takes you deeper into the territory of containing threats and capitalising upon opportunities.

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Think beyond the carbon label

2nd Jul 2007 by Tim Kitchin

If we are to trade our way out of climate change, consumers are going to need to make much better environmental choices.

Realistically, they will need a lot more information; honestly produced and simply presented.

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Carbon Emissions Podcast

15th May 2007

The launch of the new climate change section is highlighted by a podcast featuring some of the most influential people in the carbon industry.

Conducted at the CarbonExpo conference in Cologne, and presented by business podcaster Neville Hobson, this podcast features leading industry experts discussing issues around carbon emissions and trading.

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Deming says ‘adopt the new philosophy’

29th Mar 2007

Deming argues that managers must ‘adopt the new philosophy’ — in this case, his new philosophy — but the rationale is applicable whether or not we examine his approach.

His argument was thus: unless management adopt the reforms they put in place, they shouldn’t expect their workforce to do so; the same goes for management systems.

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Time for a Chinese standards institute?

28th Mar 2007 by Tim Kitchin

“Chinese consumer confidence in foreign brand-name products is decreasing after frequent media reports about their shabby quality.”

So says this piece from China Business News.

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