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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.” The most significant impact of introducing a carbon border tax will be on the cost of products with high-carbon inputs, such as steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals, and electricity-intensive processes. While the industry average price for steel shall see a 16.9%

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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

The investment industry is changing. 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

This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. But why stop with industrial assets? These metrics should inform ongoing feedback as well as training for individuals, teams, and their algorithms.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%. In that year, these improvements resulted in 15,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions avoided and savings of nearly $11 million. ” Improving risk management.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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