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Walmart Seeks More Sustainability Action from Suppliers
Retailer looks to get more small and midsize producers making progress against goalsBy Christine LaFave Grace on Dec. 08, 2021
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Walmart is aiming to prompt more action on climate change from businesses throughout its supply chain—including small and midsize suppliers—with the launch of new sustainability resources and incentives.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer said Wednesday that it's expanding on its two-year-old sustainable supply-chain finance program to let suppliers that set and meet science-backed sustainability targets obtain the lowest available financing rates if and when they choose to seek early payment on their invoices. The offering is meant to help give smaller suppliers, in particular, more access to working capital that they can then invest back into their sustainability initiatives and into growing their businesses.
Suppliers participating in Walmart's Project Gigaton, an emissions-reduction initiative that seeks to keep 1 billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gas emissions out of the company's global supply chain by 2030, now will be able to have their homegrown sustainability programs evaluated and validated through the Science Based Targets Initiative (STBI). The STBI is a program of the not-for-profit environmental-reporting organization CDP, which issues climate-change scores to companies based on companies' environmental goals and their progress against them.
Project Gigaton participants that have their environmental targets validated by the STBI or that achieve certain climate-change scores from CDP will be eligible for the best financing terms from Walmart partner HSBC, a U.K.-based multinational bank.
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