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Webinar: “Supply Chain Transformation for a Sustainable Future”, September 8, 2021

SCM Research

How can innovation and new business models transform global supply chains in the transition to a sustainable economy? Please register at: [link].

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Moving Ahead with Net Zero Goals and Climate Adaptation

Enterra Insights

As last year came to a close, the world held its 28th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (UNCCC). Simply put, the world is going to continue to heat up and climate disasters will continue to wreak havoc. ” So, what does this mean? Principle 1.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Maybe because many have realized that the time has come to put an end to the self-destructive economic behavior of the last two centuries. Transport nodes, such as ports, are following this trend by developing capabilities becoming energy hubs providing but also becoming powered by sustainable fuel. Roughly half of .

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world part 2

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

These efforts complete the set of the five (5Zs) initiatives that changed the world of transport and logistics during the 14 days of the Glasgow conference. Skilling is an important building block on the road to social justice and more sustainable supply chain networks. About the Authors.

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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

Despite decades of warnings by scientists, climatologists, and environmentalists, the world has routinely shrugged its shoulders at climate change. Science journalist Dave Levitan predicts, “Over the next 30 years, climate change is likely to uproot hundreds of millions of people around the world from their homes.”[5]

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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

Enterra Insights

In his opening remarks at the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’ in Tianjin [in late June], Li said that ‘some in the West are hyping up the so-called phraseologies of reducing dependencies and de-risking. Net-net it creates more prosperity to make things wherever it’s most economical to make them.

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Supply Chain Collaboration – a prerequisite for low carbon logistics?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In an earlier issue of LogiSys I summarised the results of a survey that Kuehne Logistics University’s new Center for Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains and the European Freight and Logistics Leaders Forum (F&L) conducted enquiring about European-based companies’ efforts to decarbonise their logistics.