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This series of viewpoints investigates green supply chain opportunities.  Find guidance on where to start with assessing indrect carbon emissions, and insights into overcoming the challenges to achieve benefits for your business.

Green supply chain insights

Can procurement professionals become brand guardians?

16 May 2013

Recent issues in the supply chain have hit the headlines underscoring the importance of understanding your suppliers. Laura Timlin explains how through openness and collaboration procurement professionals are increasingly becoming brand guardians for forward-thinking firms.

Make business sense of Scope 3

26 April 2013

8 steps to managing your organisation's Scope 3 carbon emissions.

Innovating business models for sustainability

20 Mar 2012

How innovation in products, processes and business models can help organisations become more sustainable.

Eight key trends in carbon consumption

6 Feb 2012

Give your business strategy the competitive edge. Hugh Jones, Director, Business Advice, investigates the trends impacting your business

Building a lower-carbon construction industry

1 Feb 2012

Key ideas for reducing the carbon footprint of buildings, from blueprint to build and beyond.

The financial imperative for cutting carbon in the value chain

10 Jan 2012

Fewer than half of all multinationals address indirect carbon emissions in the supply chain ─ and are missing out on considerable cost savings as a result. Dominic Burbridge, Associate Director, Business Advice, recommends a smarter business strategy that looks at green supply chains.

Carbon emissions downstream - are you measuring yours?

9 Dec 2011

Do you know the true environmental impact of your products? Laura Timlin investigates the challenges of assessing indirect emissions across the whole value chain.

Cutting carbon in the supply chain

7 Dec 2011

Green supply chains are the trend for 2012 and beyond. Aleyn Smith-Gillespie, Associate Director, Business Advice, explains why.

Where to start with reducing indirect carbon emissions

21 Nov 2011

Martin Barrow, world-leading authority on product and service carbon footprinting, gives a step-by-step guide to reducing indirect carbon emissions.

Indirect carbon emissions and why they matter

7 Nov 2011

The value of addressing 'scope 3' or indirect emissions by Hugh Jones, Director, Business advice.

Cutting carbon from the supply chain: A business critical mission

6 Oct 2011

Why cutting carbon in the value chain is essential for forward thinking organisations.

 

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