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Environment is important to support human life, without it human race will cease to exist,
With supply chains underpinning the very foundations of trade, the past two decades have understandably seen an increased impetus on supply chain gains such as speed and efficiency to maximize (often) squeezed margins. These types of operational efficiencies are clearly important to global markets but there are now increasing questions around the challenges presented by increasingly complicated supply chains; not least the impact that both globalization and the fulfilment of global commerce presents to our environment.
With supply chains underpinning the very foundations of trade, the past two decades have understandably seen an increased impetus on supply chain gains such as speed and efficiency to maximize (often) squeezed margins. These types of operational efficiencies are clearly important to global markets but there are now increasing questions around the challenges presented by increasingly complicated supply chains; not least the impact that both globalization and the fulfilment of global commerce presents to our environment.
For more than 70 years, Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, has been the key yardstick by which nations have measured economic progress. But GDP is designed to exclusively account for the monetary benefits accrued from economic activity. It is blind to the degradation of the natural environment, finite resources and human wellbeing. It’s time we came up with something better
Sustainability as a business imperative in supply chain management increased despite the pandemic, says MIT-led report.
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to make the United States federal government carbon neutral by 2050. The executive is just another piece of the Biden Administration’s sweeping sustainability goals and calls for the government to reduce emissions by 65% by 2030 and be completely net zero by 2050.
