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April 18, 2008 Greener Products, Smarter Supply Chains SLM Home | Sourcing News & Ideas | Connections | Events | About

DHL Targets 30% Reduction in Carbon Footprint Deutsche Post World Net, the logistics division of DHL, is targeting a 30% reduction in carbon emissions for "every letter mailed, every container shipped, and every square foot of warehouse space used" by the year 2020. The new GoGreen program was created in part to satisfy growing demand among climate-conscious corporate customers, according to Deutsche Post CEO Frank Appel. Read more... Also This Week... Nike Helps Asian Suppliers Slash Energy Use Nike has completed the first phase of an energy-efficiency project aimed at boosting energy efficiency among its footwear suppliers in Southeast Asia. The sports-apparel giant is working with four supplier factories in China and Vietnam to find out how much energy each factory consumes and identify the biggest opportunities to reduce or optimize energy use. Read more... Beverage Industry to Get Carbon Footprint Label The new Carbon Action Plan (CAP), unveiled at an industry conference last week, offers a standardized protocol for the measurement and independent verification of greenhouse gas emissions across the entire supply chain. The program will eventually create a "nutrition-style" product label for green performance in the areas of energy use, packaging material, water use, emissions reduction, and carbon offsets. Read more... New ProLogis Warehouse Has Lowest Carbon Footprint in Europe Warehouse developer ProLogis has completed a distribution center for U.K. retailer Sainsbury's that has the lowest carbon footprint of any such facility in Europe, according to the company's latest annual sustainability report. The 624,000-square-foot distribution facility in Northampton, completed in October, exceeds U.K. green-building regulations by 40%. Read more... International Shipping Group Mulls Costly Carbon Tax The International Maritime Organization (IMO), a U.N. regulatory body, may place a tax on marine fuel as early as next year in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry, Reuters reports. IMO estimates that global shipping released 1.12 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year and may increase 30% by 2020. Read more... More Sustainable Sourcing News & Tools... We want to hear from you! Post your comments or questions below any SLM news story and we'll feature the best of them here. (Note: You must be a registered SLM user to post. Not yet signed up? Click here!) Forward to a Friend! Sustainable Brands ‘08 on Track to Double in Size! SB'08 will put you in personal touch with the leaders of the sustainable brand movement, including senior executives from Dow, Clorox, HP, Yahoo!, Method, Interface, Keen Footwear, New Belgium Brewery, Steelcase, Nestle, Seventh Generation, IDEO, Frog Design, Ziba Design, and more. Download the conference agenda here (PDF), and register today -- signups are already topping last year’s final figures! Top Headlines from Other SLM Channels Sony Turns Old TVs into New Flat-Screens Hearst Corporation HQ Targets Zero Waste Most Americans Don't Understand Companies' Green Claims Tesla Sues Designer in Electric Car Dust-Up 72% of Businesses "Paying More Attention" to Energy Efficiency? DuPont, Nissan, ADM Top "Toxic 100" Anheuser-Busch Employees Star in New Green-Themed TV Ads McDonald's Waste-to-Energy Project Cuts Restaurant Emissions 54% HR Execs Cautioned Against "Wal-Mart Effect" International Business Leaders Target U.N. Climate Conference Questions - and Answers - for a Greener Supply Chain Manufacturers and their partners are under the gun to determine where they can improve operational effectiveness and resource across their supply chain. Here are the questions your company should be asking. (Supply Chain Management Review) Read more... Solution Providers

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