Strategic Sourcing Europe

I found a nice summary about what Green IT means for a company here, on PAC Online website. As most of us are simply thinking about an efficient ‘low energy consumption’ IT system with reduced CO2 emission, the true benefit is elsewhere:
IT operations are responsible for generating a sizeable proportion of CO2 emissions on [...]

A European survey 2007 on “Responsible Purchasing” (involving 300 CPO) has just been released, published by HEC Business School, EcoVadis and Ariba. The objective of the survey was (read my former post) to identify the ‘tools’ which will help the better an organization to make Sustainable Procurement practices a reality. The report is worth [...]

The “Global Reporting Initiative” also called GRI is a major reference with regards to sustainability reporting. On its website, you’ll find all the material you need to determine how to report your company sustainability performance.
The GRI is providing a reference guide, called G3 reporting framework, helping readers to identify what and how to report. [...]

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Have your say in the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards and Survey and you could be one of 8 lucky winners of an all expenses paid trip to GRI’s second international conference 7-9 May 2008. Registration for the conference will open on 1 November via the GRI web portal.

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European stakeholders are providing a set of guidelines for public authorities and contracting parties to support the introduction and use of Green Public Procurement. Published in 2004, Buying Green! is a 40 page and 6 chapter handbook explaining in concrete terms how environmental considerations can be integrated into procurement procedures, public legal constraints and  including concrete [...]

Yeah-yeeees… Of course you know the difference between those 2 ‘high-buzzing’ concepts which are green procurement and Sustainable procurement. However, the more I read about it, the more I see Green instead of Sustainable or vice versa. Even in my posts…oups. So, for the sake of it, give me 2′ to refresh our mind.
GREEN Procurement [...]

At last! To be honest, it took me quite a while to find a good and relevant CSR self-assessment questionnaire, yes but available free online as well. That surprises me actually: It is such a buzz and so many non-profit-associations are sponsoring CSR that I thought I would find a dozen of them easily. Anyway. That’s a [...]

There is an increasing need for corporate responsibility monitoring and management. Everywhere, more and more, it will become a mandatory-standard. Vigeo understood that some time ago and was founded as a limited company under the French law in 2002 and already expanded in Belgium, Morocco and Italy. I guess Vigeo won’t stop there. Initially, Vigeo [...]

Ethical Corporation and Business in the Community announced the launch of The Responsible Business Summit 2007, 9-10th May 2007 in London . This conference is a merger of the annual BITC [...]

Green buzzes. GreenPeace launched a smart campain – from my pov – towards APPLE, which they found to be the worst green-compliant company from their top 13 mobile and  PC manufacturers panel . I found the campaing “Green my Apple, Steve” smart as Greenpeace aknowlegdes – respects – the beauty of Apple products while [...]

On its website, CSR Europe addresses this FAQ through different angles. Simply click on one of the links if you want to access the full article. Otherwise, I just summarised key findings below each link. I already touched this topic in earlier CSR related posts but I wanted as well to present a [...]

Do you know BITC? I guess you do… if you are CSR-addicted. If not, this post might be useful to you. BITC (Business In The Community) is a unique independent business led charity whose purpose is to inspire, engage, and support and challenge companies, to continually improve the impact they have on society. With [...]

I found those practices – detailed in an article published by www.metricstream.com , a company which can help you managing your suppliers closer and more efficiently – pragmatic and essential to my point of view. On the other hand, they definitely connect to Green Procurement as they support an effective supplier performance control. That’s [...]

In a former post “CSR: A buzz like never before…” I have breifly described the topics covered by CSR. Below is a more extended list – a sample though – of the Economical, Environment, Working environment and Social criteria that would be to assess for a CSR rating purpose:
Economical Criteria
- Company structure and governance
- Financial [...]