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Crowdsourced website guides supply chain sustainability efforts

Corporate sustainability professionals have gained a new tool in their efforts to mitigate the environmental impacts of supply chains, with the launch of a crowdsourced Web platform created by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

The Supply Chain Solutions Center, developed by the EDF in collaboration with other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), was created as a resource hub for companies looking to adopt more sustainable practices. Globally, consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chains are responsible for over 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and two-thirds of tropical deforestation, EDF says.

New York-based EDF says the platform features a variety of sustainability resources, including case studies, templates for building sustainability plans, and opportunities for connecting with NGO experts, on an easily searchable interface. The resources are divided into six sustainability areas: agriculture, energy, chemicals, waste, forests, and freight. The platform can be found at https://supplychain.edf.org.

Companies can also use the site to conduct an assessment
to evaluate their sustainability efforts and create tailored
profiles that will “suggest” relevant content from verified
contributors. These contributors include Conservational
International, Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Business
for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Sustainable Packaging
Coalition, The Sustainability Consortium, ReFED, Field to
Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable
Purchasing Leadership Council, and Further with Food.

“Our goal is to make finding sustainability solutions as easy as finding a movie on Netflix or a song on Spotify,” Elizabeth Sturcken, managing director of EDF+Business, said in a release. “Global supply chains can be massive and opaque, but when every node of the chain has a lighter footprint, the economic and environmental rewards are huge.”