UN Expert Calls Upon Companies to Tackle Climate Issues in Supply Chains

• Date: December 16, 2010
• Source: Admin

Lead UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres has her hands full what with 194 countries breathing down her neck to arrive at a consensus on a climate change treaty at the global warming talks in Cancun.  

Unlike last year in Copenhagen, she was holding forth on leveraging value chains – a phrase one would associate with supply chain management.  She implored to the 200 business leaders in attendance at the World Climate Summit to transform the sector they operate in.  The latter may oblige in the backdrop of climate action stagnating at Cancun and Congress.  Companies are dealing with the supply chain climate problems on their own. They are collaborating and open-sourcing with their peers beyond all expectations. Quicker, cheaper and larger-scale solutions are thus emerging.