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On July 16th, Walmart launched a bold new initiative to assess companies and products along its supply chain. The Index asks 15 key questions, and its depth and complexity has immediately become a subject of debate. It also sets the stage for how we will understand and define ‘sustainability’, reflecting the view of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, in partnership with academics, NGOs, industry groups, and other retailers.
For companies looking to increase their supply chain’s energy efficiency, China is a good place to start because it is a key location for energy-intensive manufacturing and its rank as the...
Walmart has awarded the World Resources Institute a $420,000 grant to help create a set of accounting tools for companies to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains. The WRI will also...
This detailed FAQ explores the first phase in the Sustainability Index project launched in July 2009 by Walmart; it collects and examines the 15 questions that the company has begun asking of all...
Walmart's Product Sustainability Index will have a dramatic influence that will be felt well beyond the company's 100,000 or so suppliers. ...
In a wide-ranging and in-depth 90-minute conversation with Joel Makower, Rand Waddoups, Walmart's Senior Director for Sustainability explores the knowns and unknowns driving the retailer's...
Oct. 1 marks the official start of the first phase of Walmart's Sustainability Index, which offers both a huge business opportunity for suppliers and a potentially huge environmental business for...
Walmart’s mandate for stricter sustainability practices among suppliers poses huge challenges to firms -- as well as a windfall of opportunities for businesses that can clear the hurdles and...
The co-directors of Walmart's Sustainability Consortium, one key plank of the company's larger Sustainability Index, explain how the group will work -- and what companies get for the six-figure...
GE releases a citizenship report today that demonstrates that the $183-billion company is becoming not just cleaner and greener, but more open. ...
Walmart's move to include green labels on all of its products that detail such things as the amount of energy used to make them is an excellent model for what should be done for Green IT. To date...
Transparency, quality, sustainability and the customer are at the core of Walmart's new Sustainability Index. ...
The first phase of a three-phase project to establish a green rating system for all of the products on its shelves, Walmart executives today released its 15 question survey that will be mailed to...
The first phase of the mega-retailer's Sustainable Product Index, this tool offers an overview of the project's goals, the 15-question survey the company is sending to all its suppliers, and an...
Now that Walmart has finally unveiled its audacious Sustainability Index, it's time to take a more sober assessment of what's really going on here. In short, there is both more and less going on...
The mega-retailer is about to unveil its guidelines for what it considers a sustainable company. But with so many definitions of how a business can be considered green, who's to say with any...
This webcast brings together a panel of experts on business law and environmental management to discuss Walmart's bold plans for its Sustainability Index, as well as to answer your questions and...
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