Consumer good supplier Unilever has revealed it is targeting the emissions in its supply chain strategy in a bid for continuous improvement.
Unilever has come up with a new tool designed to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its supply chain.
Working in conjunction with the University of Aberdeen, Unilever has developed The Cool Farm Tool, a new greenhouse gas calculator tool which enables both supply chain managers and individual farmers to input data to calculate their total greenhouse gas emissions.
"Farmers are then able to see the effect that making small actionable changes to their agricultural methods will have on their overall carbon emissions, such as using a different fertiliser, for example," the company explained.
Writing in the Environmental Leader recently, Bill Olson, director of the office of sustainability and stewardship for mobile devices at Motorola, said that ICT companies are working across the supply chain to source components from post-recycled plastics and to create more eco-friendly packaging.
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