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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

From an operational and supply chain perspective, many companies have focused on tracking their operations and assets (Scope 1) and their own purchased energy electricity, heating, cooling, etc. EU importers and non-EU producers of these inputs will be required to pay around 75 EUR per metric ton of CO2 emissions.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Just as they do for physical fitness, technologies tracking steps and heart rates already capture actionable inferences about individual energy levels and moods. This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Recognizing the growing consumer interest in sustainable products and looking to solve consumer challenges such as high energy costs, CPG companies have developed new products to gain access to this market. and European line of cold-water detergents that require 50% less energy than warm water washing. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Renewable Energy. Round three is a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation including a SWOT analysis and other metrics for a company of your choosing. Marketing & Sales. Research & Development. Manufacturing. Aerospace and Automotive. Industrial Equipment. Technology. Cloud Computing. Hardware & Software. Food & Beverage.

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