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China's supply chain managers offered green training
The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) and its partners joined former US president Bill Clinton on stage at the Clinton Global Initiative last week to announce a $2.3m commitment to boost Chinese factories' compliance with environment, health and safety (EHS) policies.The GE Foundation is the lead funder with a $1.5m grant over three years. USAID also offered a $6m grant to ISC for its US-China Clean Energy and Climate programme. Additional funding comes from the Walmart Foundation.
The commitment - a public-private partnership - boosts ISC's Environment, Health and Safety Academy, which officially launches this month in Guangdong, by establishing a second academy in another major industrial province in China in 2010. Industry is the largest source of climate pollution in China. The academy helps supply chain managers to systematically address EHS priorities, including energy efficiency and pollution reduction. The training draws on the best practices of companies such as GE, Honeywell and Adidas, all of whom helped develop the core curriculum.
When fully operational, each academy will train at least 2,000 managers a year. Over the next three years, ISC estimates that 5.6 million metric tons of CO2 emissions will be averted through the interventions deployed by trained factory managers.
"In China, as in many emerging markets that make up the world's supply chain, the push for growth has outpaced the capacity to safeguard the environment and protect worker health and safety," said George Hamilton, president of the Institute for Sustainable Communities. "By scaling up the EHS Academy, we believe we can help Chinese industry significantly improve environmental health and reduce climate pollution."
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