Sustainable Sourcing: Modest Actions, Huge Impact globalsources.com

At the opening of the “Sustain 2021” virtual conference organized by Ecovadis in March, former US vice-president Al Gore – also the founder-chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis – boldly declared: “The sustainability revolution is now well underway.”

Gore cited sustainability shifts that are transforming relations between and among people, governments, businesses and the environment. For example, electric vehicles are overhauling transportation and humanity’s historic dependence on fossil fuels, regenerative farming approaches are shaking up agriculture, while renewables are rewiring energy consumption. Similar revolutionary shifts are happening in innovation, corporate governance, investment decisions, consumer behavior and legislation, all reshaped by – and in return reshaping – Sustainable Sourcing.