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Watch: How the Pandemic Affects Supply Chain Sustainability

Vigilance in dealing with vendors and suppliers is crucial to sustainability, says Jim Stock, University of South Florida professor, but the pandemic has interrupted inspections and other preventive measures.

How the Pandemic Affects Supply-Chain Sustainability

Rising Battery Costs Hit Carmakers, Threaten Climate-Change Push

Soaring commodity prices and supply chain bottlenecks are threatening to push up the cost of batteries seen as crucial in the fight against climate change.

A lithium-ion automotive battery pack sits on a chassis. Photo: Bloomberg.

Omicron, Climate Change Threaten Christmas Tree Supply

Those people who start the Christmas season while clearing the Thanksgiving dishes might have the right idea.

Christmas trees are stacked in a farm house. Photo: Getty Images.

Sustainalytics Launches Supply Chain ESG Solutions for Companies

Sustainalytics, a global provider of ESG research, ratings and data, today announced the launch of its Corporate Supply Chain ESG Solutions, which include online access to company-level ESG ratings and data within Sustainalytics’ extensive research universe.

Four Reasons to Digitize Your Direct Spend Procurement Processes

Many organizations overlook the vast benefits that direct spend digitization offers to a company’s processes and bottom line.

Engineers collaborate on a plan. Photo: Pexels.

Global Water Supplies: The Most Serious Shortage of All

The high-profile but temporary unavailability of semiconductors and other industrial components is getting a lot more coverage these days than the chronic shortage of an even more vital resource: water.

A diner pours water into a glass. Photo: Getty Images.

How Farmers Around the World Are Battling ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ Food Crisis

The world is facing a new era of rapidly increasing food prices that could push almost 2 billion more people into hunger in a worst-case climate crisis. Confronting the dire predictions, farmers have begun to adapt.

A farm worker harvests asparagus. Photo: Bloomberg.

Biden Signed the $550 Billion Infrastructure Deal. Here's Who Gets the Money.

President Biden signed the $550 billion measure at a White House ceremony on Monday, after appointing a group of officials to guide the law’s enactment.

Photo: Bloomberg

Three Ways Service Providers Can Rethink Sustainability

By rethinking product lifecycle, reverse logistics and resource optimization, logistics companies and service providers can introduce sustainable change.

Food Giants Try Carbon Labels to Solve Their Climate Problem

Nestle SA, Pepsico Inc. and 25 other companies are backing a project that calculates a product’s environmental impact from farm to store and then grades it with a color-coded label. It’s the first time a partnership this big is working to find a one-size-fits-all way to assess the supply chain.

Farm workers harvest potatoes. Photo: Getty Images.

Zero-Carbon Shipping Plan Targets Container, Iron Ore Routes

The Clydebank Declaration on green shipping was unveiled Wednesday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and signed by 19 nations including the U.S., U.K., Japan, France and Germany.

A banner advertises the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.

Ensuring Supply Chain Sustainability in a Post-Pandemic World

Companies that are still rushing to lower product expense or speed up deliveries at the cost of the planet and its people are playing an outdated game.

Smog is seen on the horizon. Photo: Shutterstock.

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