IBM Orders 30,000+ Suppliers to Start Disclosing Their Environmental Impact
source: http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100416/ibm-orders-30-000-suppliers-start-disclosing-their-env...
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It’s all well and good for a company to build a green headquarters, release annual corporate responsibility reports and track its greenhouse gas emissions. But if it doesn’t extend that tracking to its suppliers, it’s at least partially responsible for the environmental impact of those companies, as well.
Perhaps more important to most businesses, one supplier’s negligence can become a financial risk to everyone up the supply chain. If a supplier is caught, say, dumping toxic chemicals or using child labor, it’s only a matter of time before the news taints a company’s public image (see: The Gap, Nike and, most recently, Microsoft).
In response to various public health and labor scandals back in the late 1990s, many global companies began to drill down into their supply chains as a way to better understand and manage their own risks. Over the course of the last decade, that management has extended to the environmental performance and impact of suppliers. Wal-Mart has been making headlines for the last two years for its supplier scorecards.
Now, IBM is taking its supply chain management another step forward with a new system of environmental management and public reporting rules ...
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100416/ibm-orders-30-000-suppliers-start-disclosi...
Perhaps more important to most businesses, one supplier’s negligence can become a financial risk to everyone up the supply chain. If a supplier is caught, say, dumping toxic chemicals or using child labor, it’s only a matter of time before the news taints a company’s public image (see: The Gap, Nike and, most recently, Microsoft).
In response to various public health and labor scandals back in the late 1990s, many global companies began to drill down into their supply chains as a way to better understand and manage their own risks. Over the course of the last decade, that management has extended to the environmental performance and impact of suppliers. Wal-Mart has been making headlines for the last two years for its supplier scorecards.
Now, IBM is taking its supply chain management another step forward with a new system of environmental management and public reporting rules ...
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100416/ibm-orders-30-000-suppliers-start-disclosi...
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