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If we can manage carbon in an integrated manner across business networks in order to save the climate for the future, why could we not do the same to save lives in DRC today? Taking an industry vertical approach for tin ore management just as we do for the Greenhouse Gas Protocol dictates that this is not just a hardware issue but that the software industry too must take responsibility for its consumption/use phase. Software vendors should also be controlling their supply chain and taking responsibility to work this issue at industry level.

Naomi Campbell found herself in the dock last week answering uncomfortable questions about ‘blood diamonds’, a term that, she was quick to point out, didn’t even exist back in 1997 when she met a lusty Charles Taylor. Lets hope Silicon Valley CEOs don’t find themselves, some time down the road, answering awkward questions at war crimes tribunals about how conflict resources might have made their way into the company supply chain and what efforts they should have taken to stop that from happening.

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The overall IT sector faces with regards to traceability through our supply chain and the activities underway at Hewlett Packard

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