Qindong Liu's List: Green Operations

• inquiries from customers that buy Dole products, particularly those in the European Union.
• Some of them are going to require their suppliers to post the CO2 emissions on the product labeling.
• And another important first step for us has been to identify partners within and outside the supply chain who can assist us and be part of the project.
• nd we’ll also eventually work on compensation programs using environmental payment services they have for establishing forestry and reforestation projects. 
  
• their environmental footprint beyond carbon emissions, but including carbon emissions of their specific company and of their suppliers.
• r what our carbon inventory situation

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• So what do you do once you’ve exhausted all opportunities to reduce the Carbon Emissions produced by your supply chain? The answer is to investigate and ultimately purchase “carbon emissions credits” from one of the many potential sources that will offset the remaining Carbon Emissions load of your supply chain allowing you to meet the goal of operating a Carbon Neutral Supply Chain.

• ottom line is that over 80% of this target is only achievable at the design stage,
• one of the key challenges for any company bent on reducing their carbon footprint is how to measure it in the first place
• These modular tools now provide the added functionality for organisations to consider carbon emissions during the network planning process, understand the cost of reducing emissions and make informed choices as to whether reductions in emissions can be made at a reasonable cost.”
• an reduce costs and carbon emissions at the same time.
• Sourcing goods from across the globe does not appear to sit well with ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions. However by analysing the entire supply chain in terms of cost, service and carbon, companies can achieve a win-win-win situation.

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• Wiedmann and Minx, 2008).

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• Optimisation of energy efficiency and, thus, reduction of CO₂-emissions and reduction of other GHG emissions  contributed from production processes
• The last step includes carbon offsetting; investment in projects that aim at the  reducing CO₂ emissions, for instance biofuels or tree planting activities
• from an economic or market perspective, one has to distinguish between a  mandatory market and a voluntary market
• • carbon offset prices?
• This measure has the great advantage that the projects/activities are managed  according to the quality standards set out for CDM/JI projects but the  certificates provided are not registered by the governments of the host  countries or the Executive Board of the UNO. As such, high quality VERs can be  acquired at lower costs for the same project quality. However, at present VERs  can not be used in the mandatory market.

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• Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance in July of 2007.[3

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