Carbon footprint: sustainable supply chain 2008 29-30 May 2008
Rising food and energy prices and the impacts of climate change are heightening the demand to create a more sustainable business environment, especially in the food & drink supply chain. Environmental drivers are now synonymous with economic drivers as businesses strive to reduce their environmental impacts across the entire lifecycle, and gain commercial benefit from being more efficient across their supply chains.
So one leading question is this: how can companies supply food and consumer products at competitive prices, given this new reality?
While the words 'carbon footprint' have long been the momentum behind corporate environmental strategies across the retail and FMCG sectors, carbon can no longer be viewed as the only piece in the environmental jigsaw. Today, as we enter a new economic and environmental era, we must ask what is the role of carbon within the wider sustainability framework, and crucially, how do you go about creating an holistic environmental strategy that incorporates carbon alongside impacts in raw materials, water, waste, energy and socio-economic and ethical issues across the entire life
cycle.
This Summit is the first to break down the process for reducing your overall environmental footprint into easy-to-follow steps. Hear practical case studies linking the diverse environmental elements to decipher WHERE are the optimum areas for reduction, and crucially HOW reductions in those areas will impact other areas of your supply chain. Only through measuring different environmental impacts, analysing their correlation to each other and developing a subsequent, inter-related strategy, will businesses achieve absolute reductions and see the optimum financial savings.
We are delighted to announce Dr Kerry Mashford, Head of Sustainable Manufacturing at Arup, as the chair and leader from the stage on the 30th May. Dr Mashford will be utilizing her industry experience and expertise to ensure that the case-studies and discussion deliver the precise and practical answers to these challenges that you face.
With only a month remaining and demand very high for what is now only strictly a limited number of seats, please contact us today for more detail on how you can join this exciting array of international counterparts, experts and leaders and establish exactly how to focus efforts and environmental investment, while considering broader sustainability issues.
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