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The company promises smoother supply chain processes, fewer workers in hazardous environments, and a reduced environmental impact.
by Phil Rosen
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Through a new partnership with Shell and its subsidiary MP2 Energy, the automaker is offering its suppliers in Texas the ability to buy discounted renewable energy.
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Thirteen startups competed for attention for solutions to curb traffic congestion, improve lithium extraction, reduce building energy consumption and more.
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Delivery supply chains are inching toward electrification. Here are the leaders where EVs and old-school logistics converge.
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The shipping industry's slow voyage towards climate action frustrates campaigners.
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The electric carmaker is making a radical shift toward open source, hoping to speed the development of electric cars.
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The world’s largest automakers agree on minimum environmental, business ethics and human rights standards.
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The electronics giant has revised the Silk Road from China to Europe as a way to cut transportation costs and emissions.
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The CDP's brand-new 2012 supply chain report tracks the impressive economic savings that companies that manage their scope 3 emissions are earning -- but also highlights how few companies are taking advantage of these benefits.
by Frances Way
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Climate change means we'll have access to Arctic shipping passages, but the emissions savings from reduced shipping distances can't offset the release of emissions from the melting of the Arctic itself.
by Mat McDermid
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A new report from WWF and Oxfam claim that putting a tax of $25 per tonne on shipping lines would provide incentive to move away from dirty bunker fuel, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and generate over $10 billion a year to help poorer nations deal with climate change.
by Will Nichols
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Heavy-duty trucks, the workhorses of commerce, are integral to the supply chain of every business. The movement to reduce their impact on the environment is huge. Here's what a major industry player is doing to help.
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The Chief Sustainability Officer at UPS explains why building your company's sustainability initiative is like constructing a building, and how you can make a sustainability strategy that lasts.
by Scott Wicker
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Economics, sustainability and reputation are among the top reasons that a number of US-based companies are starting to bring manufacturing jobs back home.
by Eric Lowitt
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How did that get there? It's a question that I've found myself asking at lot these days. Goods movement, freight, logistics -- call it what you will. Regardless of name, it's the source of a lot of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Maersk Line has become the first in its industry to independently verify its carbon emissions vessel by vessel -- a move that enables customers to track the environmental data along with other performance information about shipping line.
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Transportation and logistics remain a mostly overlooked area for potential climate risks and opportunities. Understanding impacts across this complex system will require a greater level of collaboration, but one part of the sector -- ocean freight -- has already begun promoting transparency and developing crucial common metrics.
by Raj Sapru
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UPS yesterday released a new, on-demand shipping pickup service targeted at small to medium-sized businesses that promises to make shipping more efficient and to cut emissions along the supply chain.
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The billionaire's new NGO, Carbon War Room, puts the global shipping industry's massive carbon footprint under the spotlight, and spread the word about simple ways to shrink its impact.
by Marc Gunther
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While individual car buyers stayed out of showrooms with disastrous results, corporate and institutional buyers proved a bright green spot for the industry with increased purchases of hybrid-electric, diesel, biodiesel, electric and other so-called alternative-fueled vehicles.
by Joel Makower
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A new ICT Sustainability Index released by IDC ranks the G20 countries on how well they've incorporated technologies from smart grid to teleworking that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 5.8 gigatons by 2020.
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A new study measures the sustainable performance of worldwide auto manufacturers from 1999 to 2007, comparing resource use efficiency of production for factors such as emissions, work accidents, waste generation and water use.
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Tools, trainings and best practices for changing driver behavior and maximizing fleet performance are among the offerings the Environmental Defense Fund unveiled at the launch of the 2009 Green Fleets Conference today.
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The U.S. Postal Service unveiled goals to significantly curb its emissions and petroleum use Thursday, a week after President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies to set create action plans to reduce their environmental impacts.