Sustainability

Sustainability

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Recording webinar ‘The road to Decarbonization’

How to make transportation sustainable, quickly? Most of a company’s emissions are supply chain related. On average, 70% of a company’s Scope 3 emissions come from their supply chain. This accounts for 60% of a company’s …

sustainable supply chains

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Radically different growth model needed to make supply chains truly sustainable

If we really want to create sustainable supply chains, we have to break the current paradigm of exclusively focusing on capital growth, according to social entrepreneur, management coach and researcher Sander Tideman. He was speaking …

Anne van de Poel,

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Anne van de Poel, Too Good To Go: ‘Get data out of silos’

Anne van de Poel left Mars Wrigley to become Global Manufacturing Lead at Too Good To Go, a scale-up that aims to create a world without food waste. According to her, the biggest problem is …

MediaMarkt

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MediaMarkt makes its same-day deliveries more sustainable

Consumer electronics retailer MediaMarkt has chosen the Bringly platform to deliver its online orders on the same day and carbon-neutrally. The orders will be delivered by bicycle or electric cars from MediaMarkt’s stores and various …

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Adidas adopts new supply chain transparency solution

TrusTrace, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company with a platform for product traceability and supply chain transparency within fashion and retail, has introduced TrusTrace Certified Material Compliance. This one-stop solution enables near real-time traceability at the material …

Ukraine

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War in Ukraine could accelerate supply chain sustainability

The war in Ukraine has added to the supply chain uncertainty. The conflict is having a major impact on freight flows worldwide, forcing businesses to reroute their deliveries. VDL Nedcar is just one example of …

Smartmile

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Smartmile and DHL Express partner up for more sustainable deliveries

Smartmile has joined forces with DHL Express in the Netherlands in a pilot project to make parcel deliveries more sustainable. DHL Express is the second carrier that Smartmile has integrated as part of its vision …

Bol.com

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Bol.com to acquire Cycloon to improve own sustainability

Bol.com has announced plans to take over bicycle courier Cycloon so that it can deliver small parcels in a sustainable manner in the future. “By acquiring a majority stake in Cycloon, we are taking another …

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Feasibility of many companies’ sustainability ambitions is questionable

Despite the fact that countless companies have pledged to become more sustainable, few of them appear to be in a hurry to do so, according to research by project developer and climate solutions provider South …

Forto

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CO2e emissions are offset for 50% of Forto’s ocean freight volumes

In the third quarter of 2021, 50% of Forto’s total ocean freight volume was shipped with a CO2e emissions offset. In the same period, 65% of customers chose to offset the emissions generated by their …