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How Technology Provides a Crucial Link in Ethical Supply Chains

With companies relying increasingly on complex global supply chains, their need for verifiable manufacturing ethics and supplier transparency is growing.

0310 The Global Supply Chain

Carbon Border Tax Emerges in EU as Weapon to Protect Green Deal

The first glimpse is emerging of a levy the European Union is drawing up to ensure its Green Deal environmental rules aren’t undone by nations with weaker standards.

0930 Carbon Border Tax

Are Batteries the Trade War China’s Already Won?

The global battery market will be worth about $116 billion a year by 2030 — up from around $28 billion now. But the U.S. is on course to capture only a small piece of that.

0929 Batteries

Amazon, GM Among Firms to Share Private Diversity Data

More than thirty of the largest U.S. companies have agreed to new disclosures of previously private race, gender and ethnicity workforce data.

0912 Amazon

In the Pandemic, Factories’ Commitment to Human Rights Is Slipping

As if damage to people and supply chains by the coronavirus pandemic and economic freefall weren’t bad enough, add to it the greater difficulty of monitoring human rights violations in distant farms and factories.

An employee gathers protective face masks from a production line conveyor. Photo: Bloomberg.

Amazon’s Fleet of Used Airplanes Makes Green Pledge Harder to Keep

Airlines say their newer generation jets are 20% more fuel efficient than the models they’re phasing out, many of which end up in the fleets of cargo carriers.

An Amazon Air cargo jet sits on a tarmac. Photo: Bloomberg.

Airbus Unveils Hydrogen Designs for Zero-Emission Flight

The European planemaker unveiled three designs it’s studying to build hydrogen-powered aircraft as it races to bring a zero-carbon passenger plane into service by 2035.

An employee adjusts a valve on the cold box for liquid hydrogen (LH2) production. Photo: Bloomberg.

‘Boxing Clever’: Realizing the Benefits of Intelligent Cartonization

Cartonization is getting more attention from businesses as rising volume demand and shipping restrictions drive up costs, and as warehouses surge-hire less-experienced packers to keep up.

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Amazon Is Trying to Make the Climate Its Prime Directive

Amazon last year committed to zeroing out its carbon footprint by 2040, or eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions caused by its activities. The goal is daunting, and there’s no specific plan for how to reach it.

Photo: Bloomberg

Loop Expands Services to Operate Nationwide

Loop, the global circular shopping platform launched last year by TerraCycle, announced that it is now available in every ZIP code in the 48 contiguous states.

The Gas Industry’s Survival Plan: Make Fuel From Cow Poop

By diverting cow waste into biodigesters in the process of making natural gas, the effect is a net climate win.

0917 Fuel From Cows

Consumers Can Now Track Carbon in an Ear of Corn From Farm to Table

Companies will be soon able to track the carbon emissions from an ear of corn to a pork chop, allowing them to market products to environmentally conscious eaters.

Source: Bloomberg

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