A new environmental guide for retailers from the United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme – has published an environmental toolkit for retailers. The toolkit, which is entitled ‘Greening Shops and Saving Costs – A Practical Guide for Retailers’, consists of a guide book and CD-Rom giving practical advice on environmental initiatives.

Areas covered within the guidebook include:

Linking production and consumption

Environmental Impacts of retail operations

Implementing Environmental Management Systems in retail outlets

Establishing a Green Supply Chain programmes

Communicating sustainability campaigns

Green advertising

The guide and CD-Rom content can be downloaded from:

www.uneptie.org/pc/retail/publications.htm

A printed version of the manual is available from the UNEP. The contact is – Solange Montillaud-Joyel – e-mail sc@unep.fr

The UNEP have also made available a gallery of good examples of communicating sustainability issues from around the world – see

www.unep.fr/pc/sustain/advertising/ads.htm

New National Consumer Council report on "Greening Supermarkets"

This week (20^th September) the National Consumer Council published a report assessing the environmental performance of the UK’s major supermarket groups.

The report uses a rating system similar to the energy efficiency rating scheme for electrical appliances. Waitrose came out top in the survey with an overall rating of B. The lowest rated performers were Morrisons and Somerfield, who both achieved an ‘E’ rating.

An expanded story on this survey can be seen at www.resource-efficiency.org

The full report can be downloaded from www.ncc.org.uk/responsibleconsumption/greening-supermarkets.pdf

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