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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.
1st Aug 2008
A recent study of such environmental policies shows they are more likely to be successful if people are treated as active partners in the process of change and not as passive subjects.
8th Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs
In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food every year, roughly a third of everything we buy.
This ground-breaking report was launched on 8 May 2008.
It provides, for the first time, an objective assessment of the amounts and types of food we buy but don’t eat.
It is a call to action for government, retailers, food manufacturers, NGOs and all of us, in our role as consumers, to reduce the food we waste.
30th Jun 2008
Peter Madden, CEO of Forum for the Future, talks about recent Carbon Labeling research conducted by Forum for the Future and Lloyd’s Register.
18th Mar 2008
More than half of U.S. consumers would give up all forms of packaging provided for convenience purposes if it would benefit the environment.
17th Mar 2008
This set of guidelines, accompanied by case studies from five businesses, explains the steps a business should take to identify what ecosystems it depends on and the risks and opportunities related to changes in those ecosystems.
17th Mar 2008
In the current wave of the environmental movement, there is quite a bit of talk. But research from Natural Marketing Institute shows that there is also quite a bit of action.
10th Mar 2008
It introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
12th Dec 2007 by Alex Briggs
The WWF has sponsored some interesting research into the Social, Economic and Governance performance of the world’s leading luxury brands.
9th Nov 2007 by Alex Briggs
The °Climate Group has launched findings of the UK’s first ever Climate Brand Index which tracks year-on-year consumer perceptions of how brands are performing on climate change.
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