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The Inescapability of Traceability
Is Big Oil Next?
Growing interest in supply chain traceability is set to become a major aspect of corporate sustainability - and is likely to affect an unsuspecting oil industry.
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Signed, Sealed... Delivered?
Behind Certifications and Beyond Labels
Signed, Sealed...Delivered? looks 'behind certifications and beyond labels' at how these tools, and the performance standards that underpin them, create business value.
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Appetite for Change
Reinventing the Global Food System
Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.
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Signed, Sealed... Delivered? Phase One
Eco-labels, trust and behavior change across the value chain
The concept of eco-labels is simple, but the reality isn’t. This paper documents initial findings of research to better understand how firms are using eco-labels and emerging alternatives to create trust and influence behavior across the value chain.
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Sustainable Brands 2010: “The Power of AND”
Recap and reflections after SustainAbility's fourth year at Sustainable Brands
Patrin Watanatada sums up the SB10 with the observation that the sustainability efforts most likely to succeed are those that are both robust and data-driven on the one hand, and joyful, surprising, delightful and principles-driven on the other.
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Subprimes et Mélamine, Deux Catastrophes Liées (Le Monde)
Les chefs d'entreprise exploiteront-ils la crise comme alibi pour justifier l'inaction?
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Time to Tackle Subprime Supply Chains (Le Monde)
A link between the credit crisis and Chinese toxic milk potentially affects us all
For those business leaders wondering whether they can use the economic crisis as an alibi for inaction or cutting back, our answer is yes and no.
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To Lead Globally, Lead in China (Nikkei Ecology)
Different people had many different reasons for watching the Olympics. In our case it was only in part to do with the sport.
While the world's largest sports goods companies are busy counting the final tally of medals won by 'their' sportspeople, media commentators have noted how marketing itself has now “become an Olympic sport.”
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Supply and Demand (China Dialogue)
The unsung heroes of globalisation are those working to help suppliers act effectively and sustainably, write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe. Now nongovernmental groups are getting involved in the process.
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Unchaining Value
Innovative approaches to sustainable supply
Unchaining Value argues that companies should redefine the goals of supply chain management from creating more value at less cost for the company, to creating more value for all supply chain participants at a lower cost to finite global resources.
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Retail Corporate Sustainability
Why retailers need to be much more creative in telling their sustainability stories to consumers
Sustainability criteria are getting more numerous and complicated by the day: How does a consumer decide what to choose when faced with a growing number of labels and standards (e.g. organic, fair trade, local, carbon neutral)?
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Traceability in Overdrive (Época Negócios)
Following a well-publicised series of product recalls by the US toymaker Mattel, the linked issues of supply chain management and product ‘traceability’ are back in the spotlight.
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Market Movers (Nikkei Ecology)
SustainAbility was in New Delhi in December, attending the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Asia Sustainability Summit. It was here, also, that we launched several of our recent reports, including Market Movers.
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Issue Brief: China
New landscapes
China is a populous country of diverse cultures and regions undergoing monumental change. The pace of change is so rapid that tensions and instability are inevitable. For each of modern China’s many achievements, there are complex trade-offs.
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2007: Year of the Supply Chain (Nikkei Ecology)
Rapid globalization is best illustrated by the ever expanding tentacles of multinational supply chains
In a constant quest to trim production costs, manufacturing companies are aggressively sub-contracting and extending their supply chains. Coastal towns in China are by no means the final frontier.
