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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

For example, Adidas has launched initiatives to produce shoes from ocean plastic waste , turning a pollutant into a valuable consumer product. Companies are implementing various strategies to minimize waste production, from the design phase, lean manufacturing techniques, to end-of-life management.

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Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

This article delves into the rising importance of ESG metrics, how companies are integrating them into their operations, provides leading examples, and highlights the evolving regulatory landscape. This commitment extends across its entire production process, from sourcing raw materials to the final product assembly.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% It took more than 30 years for electricity to diffuse and enable industrial plant design that could generate significant productivity growth.

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Trends Shaping the Automotive Industry in 2022

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Electric Vehicles Production and Sales Will Grow. For example, the European Green Deal involves achieving the following objectives: emissions from cars must be reduced by 55% by 2030, while new cars are expected to produce zero emissions by 2035. . What else should we expect in 2022?

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. It is hard to think of a single case.

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How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

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Saving the Planet from Ecological Disaster Is a $12 Trillion Opportunity

Harvard Business

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? Their assumption: if we do more of what we have been doing, but a little bit faster and a little better, we can deliver many – if not most – of the goals by the target date of 2030. How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?

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