- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2024-02-27T12:25:00
Retail giant Walmart announced the completion of an initiative to reduce emissions in its supply chain six years earlier than its intended target.
In 2017, the store launched “Project Gigaton.” Its goal was to work with its suppliers to reduce, avoid, or sequester 1 gigaton (1 billion metric tons) of greenhouse gas emissions in product value chains by 2030.
On Feb. 20, Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon revealed the goal has already been reached.
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2024-03-12T19:33:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Ford Motor Co. agreed to pay $365 million to settle charges levied by the Department of Justice that the automaker purposefully dodged import duties for years by mislabeling and undervaluing hundreds of thousands of cargo vans it brought into the United States from Turkey.
2024-02-27T20:34:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Environmental, social, and governance issues are increasingly material to investors, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is checking to ensure businesses’ ESG statements are above board, according to the agency’s enforcement director.
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Companies that haven’t yet set up verifiable reporting in their sustainability programs have a ready reference available in the framework put out by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, experts discussed at CW’s virtual ESG Summit.
2025-03-13T21:25:00Z By Ruth Prickett
The European Commission has adopted proposals for radical simplifications to the EU’s trailblazing environmental regulations. The commissioners argue that this is a pragmatic response to changing global economics and indicates that they have listened to the concerns of smaller businesses that are struggling to comply with onerous and conflicting rules. ...
2025-02-18T19:25:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
U.S. President Donald Trump has proven himself to be a chaos agent in the opening weeks of his second term, firing federal workers, shuttering agencies, and issuing executive orders that attempt to upend policies and laws he doesn’t like.
2024-10-25T15:38:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Supply chains are about to become the next big thing in sustainability compliance. However, many organizations still lack the data and assurance capabilities to track sustainability and human rights activities across their extended supply chains – which is required by the EU’s CS3D. Many others that fall out of scope ...
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