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Why Is the SCM Discipline So Silent About the Climate Crisis?

SCM Research

Even without this new IPCC report, it should be clear that our planet is in an existential crisis: The scale and intensity of the recent floods in Germany have broken all records and the ongoing fires in Greece have reached biblical proportions; Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said these fires showed “the reality of climate change”.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Stabilize in February

Supply Chain Matters

In contrast, performance levels related to North America , Europe and South America were noted as remaining weak, on average, compared to Asia. Counties reaching new highs were noted as Italy, noted as reaching a ten month high, Greece, Ireland and Spain.

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Country Risk Scores Mapped and Explained

EcoVadis

Highlights of most recent update: Eight countries increased their risk level this includes Chile, Greece, Hungary, Turkey and South Korea. These country score changes are in line with the trends that RSF has observed over the past few years, in that EcoVadis scores also show Latin America and Eastern Europe becoming increasingly risky.

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Christmas 2022: The History of Christmas Greenery

Enterra Insights

According to History.com, “The history of Christmas trees goes back to the symbolic use of evergreens in ancient Egypt and Rome and continues with the German tradition of candlelit Christmas trees first brought to America in the 1800s.”[2]

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New Year’s Day 2021

Enterra Insights

CNN correspondent Lisa Rose explains, “The New Year’s baby is a cultural mainstay that dates back as far as ancient Greece, when a child was paraded around in a basket to welcome the new year.”[2] According to Rose, Germans took the Baby New Year tradition started in Greece and Christianized it. Fun Fact 7.

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International Women’s Day 2022

Enterra Insights

The organizers, members of the Socialist Party of America, wanted it to be on a Sunday so that working women could participate.) The play was a bawdy anti-war comedy in which Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace. ”[2].

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The impact of the Ukrainian crisis on Europe’s gas flow

Supply Chain Movement

However the impact on Eastern and Southern European gas flows and prices would be more substantial with countries such as Greece forced to rely on gas reserves it has in storage.

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