REUTERS
Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:16pm EST

Suppliers that don’t manage CO2 could lose clients

LONDON (Reuters) - Suppliers that fail to manage their greenhouse gas emissions could lose clients, said a report published on Monday.

Some 56 percent of large firms would in the future deselect suppliers for failing to meet criteria on managing carbon emissions, according to a survey by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).

The CDP Supply Chain report said that six percent of its members, which include Google, Dell, PepsiCo and Cadbury, would today stop doing business with suppliers that did not manage their carbon.

“This is no longer a ‘nice to have’ for leaders, it is becoming a ‘need to have’ and we expect to see this trend growing across the whole business sector,” said the CDP’s head Paul Dickinson.

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