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6 February 2012
Environmental-Finance: ESG focus to shift to company supply chains – MSCI
Source:
www.environmental-finance.com
Companies in less carbon-intensive industry sectors are set to face growing scrutiny from consumers and policy-makers on the environmental impacts of their supply chains, according to index and investment research provider MSCI.
The textile and apparel industry and the food sector were cited as examples of this, at a MSCI webinar on environmental, social and governance (ESG) trends in 2012.
Focus will increase on how emissions “are aggregated through the supply chain and how this affects the core structure for consumer products and the products sold through the retail system,” said Olga Emelianova, a senior ESG analyst at MSCI.
“We think that more downstream consumer companies will be forced to make investments in their supply chains to make them more efficient and less carbon intensive,” said Linda-Eling Lee, global head of MSCI ESG research.
So far, “only a few” companies are paying attention to this issue, said Emelianova: “This is definitely still an emerging issue and a lot of companies are still in the early stages of exploring the possibilities to reduce risks.”
For example, only one in four companies covered by MSCI “has management strategies in place to identify the scope and extent of their risk exposure to higher energy costs throughout its supply chain”.
However, MSCI has seen some increased action by companies to identify the carbon footprint of specific raw materials with high carbon intensity, in response to growing customer demand – including beef, leather and palm oil.
“There’s definitely a lot of opportunities for the first movers in the market because … they can minimise the footprint of their raw materials, and also address growing demands from customers and gain more consumer trust,” Emelianova said.
She added that once more companies with carbon-intensive supply chains start to pay attention to their carbon footprints, it will provide incentives for increased use of renewable energy in the sectors affected.
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