{"id":362664,"date":"2010-02-25T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2209"},"modified":"2010-02-25T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:29:02","slug":"walmart-green-supply-chain-opportunity-wiil-target-carbon-intense-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362664","title":{"rendered":"Walmart green supply chain opportunity wiil target carbon intense products"},"content":{"rendered":"

for reduction to achieve Walmart’s goal to eliminate twenty million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its global footprint. The company will deploy a selection, action, and assessment process to enable its sustainability program. Walmart collaborated with external <\/a>leaders in sustainability and will leverage this integration team to identify projects, measure reductions, engage its supply base, and drive proper procedures into each GHG reduction benefit. …<\/p>\n

… “Selection — Walmart will focus on the product categories with the highest embedded carbon. This is defined as the amount of life cycle GHG emissions per unit multiplied by the amount the company sells. To find the embedded carbon, the ASC reviewed the GHG emissions associated with all Walmart product categories. This approach ensures the project team focuses on the categories that have the greatest opportunity for reductions. Reductions can come from any part of a product\u2019s life cycle.” …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via Walmart Stores: http:\/\/bit.ly\/aBy2pX<\/a><\/p>\n

Walmart Sustainability commitment aligns with the company’s sustainability goals of being supplied 100 percent by renewable energy, creating zero waste and selling products that sustain people. http:\/\/bit.ly\/dsPMqE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Greening the Walmart integrated supply chain has the potential to reach tens of thousands of companies around the globe. http:\/\/bit.ly\/cmVTcG<\/a> The Walmart effect is expected to have significant implications for China according to the Environmental Defense Fund, given the size of the Walmart environmental supply chain. http:\/\/bit.ly\/cwV1OW<\/a><\/p>\n

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To track benefit realization, Walmart will follow this process: Suppliers and Walmart will jointly account for the reductions. ClearCarbon will perform a quality assurance review of those claims to ensure methodology, completeness and calculations are correct. When the claims meet the quality assurance check, PricewaterhouseCoopers will assess under consulting standards whether the defined procedures were followed consistently to quantify the reduction claim. http:\/\/bit.ly\/beaYyY<\/a><\/p>\n

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Walmart has received constructive feedback from its colaboraters, such as The Environmental Defense Fund. For example, EDF reviewed the WalMart\u2019s Sustainability Report and made these comments: We\u2019d also like to see Wal-Mart present more data that allows readers to verify the information presented. For example, the limited data presented on improvement to fuel efficiency in the truck fleet \u2013 an area where we know that WalMart has made progress \u2013 leave room for confusion. http:\/\/bit.ly\/dfdj3s<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mike Duke, Walmart’s President and CEO discusses the new Greenhouse Gas Goal: Today we\u2019re announcing an aggressive new goal to eliminate 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from the life cycle of the products we sell around the world by 2015. http:\/\/bit.ly\/bBXBYx<\/a><\/p>\n

Walmart’s Sustainability Announcement was facilitated by the folks at TreeHugger. http:\/\/bit.ly\/cLfWpW<\/a><\/p>\n

Walmart is collaborating with the Environmental Defense Fund, who believes that the company can effect huge environmental change. http:\/\/bit.ly\/9JGYOy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Walmart green supply chain facts, PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What others are saying …<\/p>\n