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Corporations in unhealthy commodity industries (UCI) have growing influence on the health of national populations through practices that lead to increased consumption of unhealthy products. The use of government-led public health surveillance is best practice to better understand any emerging public health threat. However, there is minimal systematic evidence, generated and monitored by national governments, regarding the scope of UCI corporate practices and their impacts. This study aims to synthesise current frameworks that exist to identify and monitor UCI influence on health to highlight the range of practices deployed by corporations and inform future surveillance efforts in key unhealthy commodity industries.
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Expanding renewable electricity use in global corporate supply chains
Abstract Expanding renewable electricity (RE) use in global corporate supply chains can help to achieve global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions targets by mid-century, but efforts face several challenges. First, corporations and their suppliers may be subject to varying climate policy stringency, leading to a misalignment of incentives to act. Second, measuring true progress is difficult, because counterfactuals are unobserved, and measures of effort vary under policy. Third, relevant policy and broader stakeholder audiences differ in the standards of measurement they recognize. Transparent and broadly accepted, or at least interoperable, standards for assessing effort would help corporations and nations strengthen confidence in corporate claims that RE procurement efforts support international climate goals.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2230743
- PAR ID:
- 10524303
- Publisher / Repository:
- IOP Publishing
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Environmental Research: Energy
- Volume:
- 1
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 2753-3751
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: Article No. 033001
- Size(s):
- Article No. 033001
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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