Sustainability

Companies working toward a sustainable supply chain need to review that all their suppliers are meeting their sustainability compliance requirements.

According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), more than 2.78 million deaths and nearly 374 million non-fatal injuries occur every year due to accidents and exposures at the workplace, In the U.S. alone, the number of fatal injuries came in at over 5,100 for the year 2017.

Urban populations in emerging economies often buy their nutritional food supplies, called food deserts, from small, mom-and-pop retailers called nanostores, a nanostore is defined as a small, family-owned outlet operated by fewer than five people located in a densely populated neighborhood.

The primary audience of this report is corporate supply chain, procurement, and purchasing professionals, but it is also relevant for strategy, risk management, operations, and other corporate functions dealing with climate change and the supply chain.

It is critical for business to understand the full spectrum of climate risk: not merely how physical impacts affect infrastructure, but also the extent to which their workers and assets are exposed and how communities experience and adapt to these impacts.

Toyota Motor Corporation announced on October 14, 2015, the "Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050," a new plan not only minimize the negative impacts caused by automobiles but also to bring a positive impact to a sustainable society.

The circular supply chain is about taking apparent waste materials and returned goods and turning them into products which can be resold, and with sustainability goals in mind, companies need to find ways to reduce the carbon footprint of shipping freight.

Sustainability is becoming a primary focus for supply chains across all industries.

Recently at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, designer Stella McCartney and Dame Ellen MacArthur cohosted the launch of a sustainability report that sets out a new vision for the retail fashion industry.

This report outlines a vision and sets out ambitions and actions - based on the principles of a circular economy - to design out negative impacts and capture a USD 500 billion economic opportunities by truly transforming the way clothes are designed, sold, and used.

UPS, in collaboration with the City of Fort Lauderdale, has officially launched an eBike at a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Saturday, December 2, at Laura Ward Riverwalk Plaza, 420 S.E. 6th Avenue, this electrically-assisted tricycle will be used to deliver packages along Las Olas Boulevard and in the surrounding neighborhood.

The Road to Sustainable Urban Logistics presents the findings of qualitative research, along with an online survey conducted by GreenBiz in June 2017 among a sample of respondents within the GreenBiz Intelligence Panel.

An investment firm run by Bill Gates has put down $80 million to develop a planned community in Arizona, the community will integrate technology and high-speed data into its "smart city" infrastructure.

Within this report, McKinsey is releasing new findings from a global survey on consumer attitudes toward EVs that include plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles, McKinsey analysis reveals current pent-up consumer demand for EVs with some stubborn and well known barriers, but also provocative and unexpected opportunities.

While Apple featured as the second most responsible company, Samsung and Amazon faced heavy criticism from the report with the authors going so far as to say Amazon is “one of the least transparent companies in the world in terms of its environmental performance.”

This Guide to Greener Electronics is an analysis of what 17 of the world’s leading consumer electronics companies are doing to address their environmental impacts and how these companies stack up.

FoodLogiQ survey finds consumers have exceptionally high expectations for food transparency, discover how to earn a customer’s trust, loyalty and purchasing power through supply chain visibility and transparency.

France is joining a growing movement to force the extinction of vehicles that run on fossil fuels, saying today that it would aim to end the sale of gasoline and diesel cars by 2040.

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has announced that every Volvo it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor, marking the historic end of cars that only have an internal combustion engine (ICE) and placing electrification at the core of its future business.

The Sustainable Development Goals not only identify where we have to be in 2030 to create a sustainable world that leaves no one behind; they also outline new markets and opportunities to innovate for companies everywhere.