Linking the U.N. Climate Conference (COP16), Supply Chain Sustainability & Logistics

By Dave Meyer on December 1, 2010 1 Comment Carbon ‘tags’, carbon accounting, carbon efficiency, carbon efficiency target, carbon footprin, Carbon labeling, Carbon pricing, CO2 emissions, COP16, Dave Meyer, Deutsche Post DHL, emissions, energy consumption, environmental impacts, Frank Appel, Gavin Neath, GHG, Global Alliance, green supply chain, Greenbridge International, greenhouse gas, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Logistics, low-carbon economy, low-carbon logistics, SEEDS, supply chain, Supply chain wide carbon accounting, sustainability, Sustainable Economic and Environmental Development Solutions, sustainable logistics, transportation, UN Climate Change Conference, Unilever

cop 16 supply chainCountries need to take ownership of their entire life-cycle emissions and when such agreements are based on data that attributes emissions fairly. But companies are not waiting around for any unlikely agreement that may come out of COP 16. Many are starting to see a sustainable supply chain as a way to not only cut costs, but also create new products that are less impacting to the environment and expand in developing-world markets that are likely to be hit hard by global warming.