Hewlett Packard Enterprise has made reducing greenhouse gas emissions a top-3 element of the mission for its supply chain and established a first of its kind supply-chain specific emissions reduction target. This memo dives into why HPE is emerging as an improbable leader in the fight against climate change.
How to manage inditex´s unique supply chain design under climate change?
Retail giant Wal-Mart sets bold goals to lower carbon emissions in its supply chain, but needs to go further to achieve ambitious targets
Climate change is leading to more frequent and serious environmental disasters, which can seriously damage Del Monte’s banana production. What is Del Monte doing to mitigate the risk of supply chain disruption, and what are the implications for their core business?
To take an analogy from soccer, Adidas is doing the talking on the pitch when it comes to combating climate change
How Starbucks is striving to save coffee by whatever beans necessary.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) takes steps to protect against threats to the pharmaceutical supply chain posed by extreme weather events.
Climate change is drastically altering how the National Park Service fundamentally operates – generating large amounts of complexity and questions
This article provides an overview of how climate change may frame smallholder mango farmers’ approach to irrigation technology selection in Mali and argues that leading mango off-takers such as CEDIAM, a privately-held fruit processing company, have an incentive to provide irrigation infrastructure financing to smallholder farmers in a context of limited farmer access to bank financing and increasing off taker competition for farmers’ production. However, off takers are likely benchmark the expected yield improvements from irrigation against the benefits of investing in their own cold chains to reduce fruit losses across the supply chain.
Climate change is poised to halve the arable land available to grow coffee by 2050; meanwhile, demand for coffee in the United States continues to grow rapidly. In 30 years, will Starbucks have enough coffee beans to meet demand? What actions is the company taking to mitigate supply risk and to help slow down the impact of climate change globally?
