February 1, 2010

More than half (56 percent) of Carbon Disclosure Project members surveyed said that in the future they would cease doing business with suppliers that do not manage their carbon, according to the “Supply Chain Report 2010” (PDF) from theCarbon Disclosure Project.

Surveyed member companies included firms like PepsiCo, Dell, Google, IBM, Kellogg, HP and Unilever.

To assemble the report, 44 CDP member firms reached out to 1,402 of their suppliers. About 51 percent of suppliers responded to the survey, 7 percent declined to participate and another 42 percent did not respond.

The survey found that 38 percent of supply chain respondents More >