At a historic UN Summit in September 2015, world leaders adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [iStockphoto] Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of present ...

The US health care system significantly contributes to climate change while increasingly facing its adverse consequences. Despite this dual challenge, policy efforts to incentivize carbon reduction ...

PARIS & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, today released its 2021 Sustainable Procurement Barometer. Conducted with Stanford ...

PARIS & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EcoVadis, the leading provider of business sustainability ratings, today announced the winners of its seventh annual Sustainable Procurement Leadership Awards ...

Different types of tools are used in procurement, whether in the private sector or in the federal system. These tools may be simple, such as specific ecolabels (described in Chapter 3), or more ...

On April 22, 2024, the FAR Council published a new rule that takes effect today, May 22, 2024, focused on sustainable procurement practices. The FAR Council also noted that FAR Part 23 will be ...

Airline source-to-pay (S2P) transformation shifts procurement from fragmented cost control to integrated value realization by connecting contracts, systems,… From cost control to value realization: ...

Sustainable procurement is no longer a peripheral concern reserved for environmental advocates or corporate social responsibility departments. It is increasingly central to how organisations manage ...

Analyst Insight: As mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting requirements become more prevalent, corporations must prioritize sustainable sourcing to manage their Scope 3 emissions. As the world ...