Tier One suppliers and leading brands push green procurement practices upstream; Blue EcoChain links brands, suppliers and NGOs; catalyzing pollution response; trailblazers appear despite relative silence from the chemical industry; real estate companies offer a powerful model for industry coalitions; PRTR reporting and the Brand Map make headway for environmental transparency; IPE’s international and finance programs address new supply chain trends and risk & more

Invitations out for the Green Supply Chain Forum, brand stories from Nike, Target, Marks & Spencer and Adidas, Ma Jun offers insights on Yangtze River rectifications & more.

Scale for Good: Pollution across the McDonald's supply chain, three more brands join the Green Supply Chain map, water in Focus: New brand story, new report & Ma Jun in Sweden & more

New round of central inspections takes on SEOs, 2019 Green Supply Chain Forum announced – CITI scoring begins, industry publication Chemical Watch features IPE report & more

This week we feature our workshop at the annual Sustainable Apparel Coalition meeting, the new Blue City Water Quality Index, investigations in the e-commerce snack industry & more

This week we feature our report on the question of outsourced responsibility by chemical giants, with a summary of our outreach and analysis, media response, related research & more

The fifth edition of our Blue Sky Roadmap highlights steel and coking, CITI 6.0 indicators incorporate solid waste and timely response, real-time monitoring gets more policy attention & more