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LRQA is a member of the Lloyd’s Register Group and is a leading global provider of verification and assurance services, helping businesses in all sectors improve their environmental performance through our independent, impartial services.
Our services include verification and validation of carbon emissions under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); verification of corporate sustainability reports and certification to ISO 14001. Recent projects have included verification of the BT Group’s 2007 sustainability reports ‘Changing world: Sustained values’ printed report and its web-based ‘Sustainability Report 2007’
For more information visit www.climatechange.lrqa.com
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We are pleased to announce Co-Sponsors for Carbon Footprint Consumer Products 2007:
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As an industry-leading consulting, engineering, construction and operations firm, CH2M HILL is tackling the challenges of greenhouse gas (GHG) management and climate change around the world. We can deliver all elements of a comprehensive, value-focused GHG management program. We help our clients take advantage of emissions trading opportunities, respond to regulatory challenges, and manage the business risks posed by the uncertainties of climate change and potential actions of various internal and external stakeholder groups. We excel at evaluating the most complicated situations to successfully:
- develop strategic plans and policies
- create GHG inventories and accounting systems
- identify and implement emission reductions
- measure and verify corporate footprints
- monitor project performance
CH2M HILL has successfully completed more than 1,500 consumer products projects around the globe, increasing profits and building value for leading companies worldwide. Our experience spans a wide range of consumer products including personal care, home care, health, beauty care, oral care, paper products. In addition to producing services and products efficiently and on time, we create sustainable solutions with long-term benefits, while managing and reducing risk to our customers.
Headquartered in Denver, Colo., employee-owned CH2M HILL is a global leader for industrial and public sector clients. With more than $4.5 billion in revenue and 19,000 employees worldwide, CH2M HILL is an industry-leading program management, construction management for fee and manufacturing design firm, as ranked by Engineering News-Record (2007). The firm's work is concentrated in the areas of energy, environment, communications, water, transportation, construction and industrial facilities. The firm has long been recognized as a most-admired company and leading employer by business media and professional associations worldwide. CH2M HILL has more than 19,000 employees in regional offices around the world.
For more information, visit www.ch2m.com
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Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for more than 90 years. Providing consulting services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps clients solve their toughest problems, working by their side to help them achieve their missions. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.
With 19,000 employees on six continents, the firm generates annual sales of $4 billion. Booz Allen has been recognized as a consultant and an employer of choice. In 2007, for the third consecutive year, Fortune magazine named Booz Allen one of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For,” and for the past eight years, Working Mother has ranked the firm among its “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.”
To learn more about the firm, visit the Booz Allen Web site at www.boozallen.com. To learn more about the best ideas in business, visit www.strategy-business.com, the Web site for strategy+business, a quarterly journal sponsored by Booz Allen.
For more information, visit www.boozallen.com
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Climate Care is a world-class, credible, carbon offset provider with over ten years’ experience of sourcing, originating and retailing carbon offsets in both voluntary and compliance markets. Over the last ten years we have worked in partnership with many international companies of all sizes to help them meet the challenge of rapidly making meaningful reductions in their carbon footprint.
- Climate Care, in conjunction with its sister company Pioneer Carbon, works directly with project partners on the ground to originate projects in low carbon technologies, delivering real, verified emissions reductions.
- Climate Care runs a first-class retail offset programme including the largest consumer offset scheme in the world.
- Climate Care’s ten years of experience means we have been integral in writing the rules on what a good credible carbon offset should be.
Our mission is to have the biggest possible impact on tackling climate change, globally. That means engaging our customers to take ambitious but achievable action.
Through our projects, we make carbon reductions on your behalf to offset the carbon footprint of your products and those parts of your business operations which you cannot realistically reduce.
To date we have delivered over a million tonnes of emission reductions for our clients, through projects that make fast cuts in greenhouse gases whilst developing the low-carbon technologies the world needs.
Climate Care enables thousands of companies and individuals around the world to take responsibility for their impact on global warming and make a difference.
For more information, visit www.climatecare.org
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Higher energy costs and the need for reduced carbon footprints are encouraging shippers and freight carriers to find new ways to optimize the transportation networks in their supply chain. The SmartWay Transport Partnership addresses these concerns with an innovative public-private initiative focused on improving the fuel efficiency of goods movement. Participating companies are benchmarking their current freight operations, identifying technologies and strategies to reduce their carbon emissions, documenting emissions reductions and projecting future improvement. In doing so, these Partner companies are demonstrating to customers, clients, and investors that they are taking responsibility for goods movement emissions throughout their supply chain. SmartWay Transport Partners are leaders in their industries, demonstrating their commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainable business practices. Partners who demonstrate superior environmental performance qualify to use the SmartWay logo to enhance their visibility as good corporate citizens, working to reduce their carbon footprint.
For more information, visit www.epa.gov/smartway
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Aravo Supplier Information Management: Closing the Enablement Gap
Aravo Supplier Information Management gives companies the solution they need to close the gap between enterprise system expectations and results. Aravo automates and manages the entire supplier information lifecycle and continually updates data across business systems, enabling companies to gain greater value from their relationships with all types of suppliers.
Aravo lets companies quickly and accurately onramp and manage virtually any kind of supplier so they can meet savings objectives, improve process efficiency, and turn supplier information into a valuable strategic asset that can be leveraged across the organization. Supplier Information types include qualifications, profiles/contacts, catalogs, contracts, financial data, regulatory/environmental compliance, and more. Out-of-the-box best-practice functionality delivers results in days, rather than years.
On-demand, SaaS delivery eliminates the large up-front cost and maintenance burden of traditional software tools. Role-based dashboards give all supply chain partners instant access to accurate information in real time, providing a single source of supplier truth that supports effective collaboration.
Only Aravo delivers a centralized on-demand solution that gives companies the speed, visibility, and scalability they need to effectively onboard and manage their supplier base. With a sole focus on supplier information management, Aravo has unparalleled expertise in helping customers transform supplier data into a strategic business asset. Low cost of entry and rapid time to delivery provide immediate value and cost savings. Proven Aravo technology and continuous solution enhancements enable customers to quickly capitalize on new and better ways of doing business.
“The electronic enablement and management of supplier content, messaging, and transactions remain the bane of many procurement and supply management initiatives. Aravo offers the secret sauce to solve the supplier enablement problem”
“The Supplier Enablement Benchmark Report.” Aberdeen Group
For more information, visit www.aravo.com
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Betsy Cohen, VP for Sustainability, Nestlé Purina
Ben Packard, Director of Environmental Affairs, Starbucks
Chuck Bennett, VP, Earth & Community Care, Aveda
Andy Campbell, Head of Refrigeration UK, Tesco
Wayne S. Evans, Director of Procurement, DHL
Dave Newman, Head of Global Sustainable Logistics, Nike
Dave Guernsey, Corporate Environmental Affairs Program Manager, UPS
Sonny Masero, Associate Director, Camco
Tom Cushing, Vice President, Membership and Business Development, Chicago Climate Exchange
Lisa Grice, Vice President, Energy and Greenhouse Gases Management, CH2M Hill
Brian Glazebrook, Manager of Supply Chain Social Responsibility, Cisco
Andrew Ritchie, Group Environmental
Development Manager, LRQA
Mike Mason, Chairman, Climate Care
Theresa Jordan, Manager
of Product and Business Support, Motorola
Erin Meezan, Director of Sustainable Development, Interface Inc.
Allison Hannon, Corporate Engagement & Research, The Climate Group
Ruchi Misra, Manager, Advisory Services, Business for Social Responsibility
Bryan Lembke, Senior Manager, Sustainable Packaging, Pepsico
Andrea Asch, Manager of Natural Resources, Ben & Jerry’s
Ryan Boccelli, Director of Logistics, Stonyfield
Paul Comey, VP Environmental Affairs, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Buddy Polovick, Chief Shipping Coordinator, EPA Smart Way Transport Partnership
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