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Ceres Launches Online Supply Chain Sustainability Tool

September 6, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ceres has released an online tool to help companies assess supply chain sustainability. The Supplier Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ): Building the Foundation for Sustainable Supply Chains was designed for the industrial goods sector, but can be useful for all companies seeking to strengthen supply chain engagement, according to Ceres. It’s intended ... Read more »

Global Food Companies ‘Should Upgrade Sustainable Supply Chain Strategies’

August 21, 2012August 21, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Only four of the world’s largest food producers – Danone, Heinz, PepsiCo and Unilever – have invested in wide-ranging codes of conduct to guide their suppliers’ environmental performance, according to a new report from Verdantix. Verdantix benchmarked the sustainable supply chain strategies of the 12 largest global food firms, with ... Read more »

Unilever, DHL Partner to Drive Sustainability, Efficiency

August 9, 2012August 10, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Unilever and DHL Supply Chain have partnered on a series of initiatives that the companies say will increase sustainable practices and the speed of bringing products to market. According to Unilever and DHL, these new initiatives include developing technology to improve carbon efficiency and reduce waste within global logistics operations. ... Read more »

Storms Shut Down Amazon Cloud Service, Chicago’s Midway Airport

July 3, 2012July 3, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram were among the millions of businesses and people without power over the weekend as a series of deadly storms moved across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Lightning in Virginia on June 29 took out part of Amazon Web Services — the company’s cloud-based computing service — affecting ... Read more »

Be the Next Nissan: How to Find Sustainability Breakthroughs

June 26, 2012June 26, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Cafedirect, which introduced fair trade coffee to the UK, Nissan’s Leaf and ZipCar, which turned a profit in the second half of 2011, are all examples of “breakthrough innovations for a brighter future,” according to a report by Forum for the Future, which outlines how other companies can follow suit, ... Read more »

Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Intel Link Climate Change to Water Risk, Ceres Study Finds

June 21, 2012June 20, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, KB Home, Alcoa and Intel are among the 27 percent of companies assessed that made the connection between climate change and water risk in 2011, up from 10 percent in 2009, according to a report from Ceres. The study, Clearing the Waters: A Review of ... Read more »

Rio+20: Pepsi, Coke, Levi Strauss to Set Water Efficiency Goals; Other Summit Business News

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CEOs from The Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, Levi Strauss & Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever and 40 other international companies have agreed to set targets on their own water efficiency and wastewater management in factories and operations, and have called on governments attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit to make global water ... Read more »

Coke China Plant Shuttered ‘over Chlorine Contamination’

May 1, 2012May 1, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Coca-Cola was reportedly forced by regulators to temporarily stop production at a bottling plant in north China, after inspectors allegedly found chlorine in a batch of drinks. Media had earlier reported that a batch of drinks contained water with chlorine, prompting the food, safety and quality regulator in Shanxi province ... Read more »

Unilever Sustainability Report: Sustainable Palm Oil Sourcing Doubles

April 25, 2012April 25, 2012 by Leon Walker

Unilever doubled the amount of the palm oil it draws from sustainable sources last year, but made little progress on greenhouse gases, waste and water use, according to the company’s 2011 Sustainable Living Plan Progress Report. In 2010, 14 percent of Unilever’s agricultural raw materials were sourced sustainably. This increased ... Read more »

Three CEOs in One Room: Walmart, Coca-Cola, Unilever

March 30, 2012April 2, 2012 by Derek Wong

Some of the biggest CEOs in Canada come together for the Walmart Green Student Challenge. I took this rare opportunity to ask them: Where is sustainability going for Canadian industries? Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Unilever already share best practices for their common goals in sustainability. Now they want to see more ... Read more »

Corporates ‘Ineffective’ at Sustainability, Experts Say

March 29, 2012March 29, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Only 17 percent of sustainability experts rate the performance of corporate leaders in addressing the sustainability agenda as effective, down from 24 percent last year, according to a report by SustainAbility and GlobeScan. The survey of 825 sustainability experts across corporate, government, NGO, academic, research, and service organizations in 76 ... Read more »

Unilever Asks for Help on Environmental Projects

March 21, 2012March 22, 2012 by Leon Walker

Unilever’s Open Innovation team has launched an online platform seeking technical solutions for reducing its environmental impact while doubling the size of its business. The company has published details of a range of research projects, including ones aimed at better packaging and natural food preservation, and invited potential collaborators to ... Read more »

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