CHAPTER 4

Standards and Tools in Support of Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Our tools are better than we are, and grow faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides. But they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Aldo Leopold

Living in a World of Standards

Close to 2,000 companies used The GRI guidelines for reporting in the past year. The GRI produces a comprehensive Sustainability Reporting Framework that is widely used around the world to enable greater organizational transparency. The framework, including the reporting guidelines, sets out the principles and indicators organizations can use to measure and report their financial, environmental, ...

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