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Summit Registration Closes Friday - Hotel Rates End Tomorrow
Register now for the 2017 TSC Summit! Registration closes Friday.
Keynote speakers include
Jason Clay, Senior Vice President for Markets and Food at WWF
and
Hunter Lovins, President and Founder of Natural Capital Solutions
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- Laura Phillips, Senior Vice President, Global Sustainability, Walmart
- Tim Carey, Senior Director for Sustainability and Recycling, PepsiCo
- Elisabeth Fischer, Head, Good Growth Plan Customer Marketing, Syngenta
- Mark Goedkoop, CEO, PRé
- Rachel Goldstein, Global Sustainability Director, SRA, Mars, Incorporated
- Judith Hochhauser Schneider, Deputy Director, Private Sector Engagement, World Wildlife Fund
- Pat Hayes, Executive Director, Responsible Battery Coalition
- Matt Kopac, Sustainable Business & Innovation Manager, Burt's Bees
- John Mulcahy, VP - Sustainability, Georgia-Pacific
- Ben Packard, Managing Director, Corporate Engagement, The Nature Conservancy
- Jason Pearson, Executive Director, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
- Adam Whinston, Director, Supply Chain Assessment & Solutions, SGS
Other summit attendees include Amazon, HSBC, Walgreens, Field to Market, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Campbell's Soup, EPA, Dow, General Mills, World Cocoa Foundation, ExxonMobil, Jack Link's Protein Snacks, Conservation International, BASF, Johnson & Johnson and more!
Keep up-to-date on our session titles and topics on our program page.
Sponsorship and exhibitor
opportunities
are filling up fast. Download our sponsorship package
here
.
Thank you to our current summit sponsors below:
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New TSC Tools for Animal-Friendly Products
TSC has developed six scientific, globally harmonised tools aimed at improving the welfare of six animals for human consumption: beef and dairy cattle, pigs, poultry for meat and for laying and farmed fish. These tools map the opportunities and obstacles in animal and aquaculture production chains, enabling animal and aquaculture producers to globally compare and improve animal welfare in their production chains.
Read the full article from Wageningen University
here.
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Complying with Sustainability Will Pay Off for Farmers
Farmers should see the benefits of complying with standards for sustainability because of the long term pay off, program leader of the Agribusiness Group, Jon Manhire says.
Addressing the Future Farms conference, Manhire said there was a good business case for sustainability because it meant farmers optimized their resources, and by being transparent and responsible, they were more likely to be granted a "social licence to operate".
Read more from NZ Farmer here.
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How
L'Oréal is Turning Itself Into a Sustainability Leader
Valued at $13.69 billion and employing around 78,000 people worldwide, the L'Oréal Group is the largest and most profitable company in the cosmetics industry. Between 2005 and 2016, it increased production volume across its 34 brands by 29%. But in the same time frame, the company reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 67%. "We are really serious about sustainability across all of our products and services," Alexandra Palt, L'Oréal's chief sustainability officer, tells Fast Company. And that commitment, she adds, can go hand in hand with economic success.
Read more from Fast Company
here.
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From Row Crops to Rainforests: How Agriculture Affects Us All
On Agriculture Day (March 20th), EDF recognized and celebrated farmers and ranchers while acknowledging that we all play a part in the growing of food.
Global food production accounts for:
- 33% of the world's GHG emissions
- 70% of the world's water consumption
- 80% of deforestation worldwide
- 50% of global top soil loss
Read more from the EDF+Business blog
here
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Member Spotlight: Unilever Rises above the Regulations on Chemicals Transparency
Half of all consumer products contain fragrance. More than
3,000 chemicals add fragrance to consumer goods
worldwide. Nearly 200 of those chemicals are voluntarily restricted by the fragrance industry. The U.N. has designated a third of fragrance chemicals as dangerous. Seven are possible carcinogens, and 15 have been banned from Europe. None are required to be disclosed to consumers, per U.S. federal regulation.
Starting this year, Unilever is
voluntarily disclosing
online the fragrance ingredients included in individual products sold in the U.S. and Europe, down to 0.01 percent of the product formulation, along with details of the scent the fragrance ingredients bring to the product. The project is to be completed by 2018.
Read the full article from Greenbiz here.
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Sustainable Commodities Workshop at TSC Summit: April 11, 9am-3pm
The Sustainable Commodities Project (funded by the Walton Family Foundation) is a year-long, multi-stakeholder effort to identify opportunities in the procurement of sustainable commodities.
This project will develop a set of case studies and procurement guidelines for feed purchasers, consumer goods companies, and private label manufacturers to use when buying commodities.
Join us for an in-person workshop at the TSC Summit in Washington, DC to review procurement case studies and develop Draft 1 of the purchasing guidelines.
To attend and see the agenda for the workshop, please register for the TSC Summit
here.
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RSVP: TSC Member Appreciation Happy Hour
Save the date:
Tuesday, April 18th, 5:30 p.m.
Bike Rack Brewery
8
th
Street Market
Bentonville, AR
TSC members are invited to relax and catch-up with other industry champions at Bike Rack Brewing's newest location. We will sample new beers and snack on food favorites from local restaurants and onsite culinary school.
Thank you to TSC member, Altenex, for sponsoring this special event!
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TSC Service Provider Training: Ann Arbor, MI
Learn how to use TSC tools and services to enhance the services you provide to the consumer goods industry! TSC has begun offering a two day training for companies and individuals who provide services to current and potential users of TSC tools, including consumer goods companies and retailers. All types of service providers are welcome. TSC staff experts lead the hands-on training through a series of lessons and activities over the two days, covering:
- How TSC works
- The methodology and process behind the Product Sustainability Toolkits
- Design and implementation of the Key Performance Indicators
- Supporting supplier responses to the KPIs
- Working with the Toolkits and reported data from the retailer and procurement viewpoint
All training participants are required to complete a comprehensive examination after the training. Participants who have successfully completed both the training and examination are listed here.
Fees
Member: $195
Non-member: $895
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Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council 2017 Summit
Input the MEMBERREFERRAL discount code to get 10% off when registering. Register here.
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