WEB WATCH
March 8
Consumer Goods Forum survey: CSR bounces back up retail agenda
Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility have climbed back up the list of priorities for the world's largest retailers and consumer brands, according to a major new survey from the Consumer Goods Forum. The trade group's bi-annual Top of Mind report surveyed 345 senior executives a [...]
March 4
Walmart sets the bar with greening its supply chain
When Walmart jumps, the retail world shakes. So when Walmart says it’s going to work with its suppliers to cut 20m tonnes of emissions from its supply chain, is it too far to say it’s a leap in the sustainability revolution?
While Copenhagen stuttered and drew plenty of ire from an exasperated media [...]
March 5
56% of CDP members may cut out suppliers who don’t manage carbon
According to the "Supply Chain Report 2010" from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), 56% of CDP's members surveyed said that in the future they would cease doing business with suppliers that do not manage their carbon. The second annual CDP Supply Chain report summarises climate chang [...]
March 2
Blood Macbooks -- Apple's Suppliers: Child Labor and Beyond, the Problems Compound
I'm typing this post on a state-of-the-art Macbook Pro. It's silver (unpainted aluminum, to be specific) but depending on your CSR vantage point, it may as well be red. As in blood red. Just as it's impossible to tell conflict diamonds sourced from w...
February 26
Apple Increases Its Monitoring of Suppliers
by James Hyatt
Apple Inc.’s latest Supplier Responsibility report indicates the company has stepped up its audits and training at a number of locations around the world.
The report says the company conducted on-site audits at 102 facilities in 2009, up from 83 in 2008, and trained 133,000 workers, s [...]
February 26
Walmart Looks to Supply Chain for Ambitious GHG Reductions
Yesterday, Walmart announced a goal to eliminate 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015.
The footprint of Walmart’s global supply chain is many times larger than its operational footprint, and so it represents a much more significant [...]
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