Supply Chain
Where reporting and due diligence travel between buyers and suppliers, inside and outside the EU.
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CSRD
Non-EU suppliers are asked for emissions data to keep their contracts
Large European buyers are writing CSRD data requests into tenders. The duty is moving out of the annual report and into the purchase contract.
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Featured Scope 3
Carmakers start rejecting supplier carbon data that has not been checked
A spreadsheet is no longer enough. Buyers want a third party to sign the numbers.
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CSDDD
Featured CSDDD Interview
Textile buyers move audits from factories to spinning mills
The person who ran one programme explains why the risk sits two tiers down.
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VSME
Buyers start rewriting supplier questionnaires to the VSME limit
From 2027 a supplier with up to 1,000 employees can refuse anything beyond the standard. Purchasing teams are cutting their forms before that happens.
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CBAM
CBAM Explainer
Steel importers from outside the EU prepare for their first CBAM payments
What importers must buy, when, and what happens to the price of a tonne of steel.
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CSDDD
CSDDD
Coffee traders start asking farms for living-wage data
The request is moving from certifications to the purchase file.
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Circularity
Chemical buyers start scoring solvents on recycled content
The questionnaire has moved from the sustainability team into the bid sheet.
Partner Industrial heat
When a factory heat pump pays back, and when it does not
A plant-level look at temperature, power price, and the contract that decides the investment.
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