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NSF launches new online resource for sustainable business solutions
In an effort to better support and educate industry on sustainability, NSF has launched a new online resource.
According to a recent report by McKinsey & Company*, any successful programme of action on climate change must support two objectives: stabilising greenhouse gas (GHG) and maintaining economic growth.
How well and how quickly businesses respond to an agenda of sustainability and corporate responsibility will determine which companies succeed. NSF is in a unique position to offer an exclusive range of sustainability services, utilising its close ties with government, regulators and industry groups globally.
In an effort to better support and educate industry on sustainability, NSF has launched a new online resource. The new website provides information on product assessment, process verification and new standards, as well as sustainable business solutions.
NSF International recently expanded its sustainability offerings to help companies monitor the performance of their suppliers to environmental and labour requirements. The programme offers supply chain auditing services tailored to the individual needs of clients, including:
- support of an existing ethical sourcing, corporate social responsibility or environment, health and safety auditing programme through auditing or audit programme management
- benchmarking an existing programme against best practices
- developing supplier oversight programmes
- conducting supply chain audits.
Companies are continually asked to measure and manage their emissions to environmental performance and to minimise their impact on the environment. To help these companies address the business cost of their environmental impacts, NSF has formed a partnership with Trucost Plc, a leading environmental research organisation.
Trucost Plc provides information on company emissions and natural resource usage in financial as well as quantity terms, to help companies understand how environmental issues could affect future earnings. Together, NSF International and Trucost Plc provide new environmental measurement, management and reporting products and solutions.
NSF also has a Sustainable Product Certification Program that certifies products to US national sustainability standards to verify a company’s ‘green’ product claim through audits, testing, reviews and protocol development.
*The carbon productivity challenge, June 2008
2009 Beverage Innovation Awards category sponsor
NSF and Trucost are sponsors of the ‘Best environmental initiative’ category in the sustainability section of the 2009 Beverage Innovation Awards, which will be presented at the industry’s largest ever gala dinner during Drinktec in Munich in September. For more information on how to enter the awards or to book a place at the dinner, visit the Beverage Awards Website.
Source: NSF International
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