Sustainability @Scale 2015 - Kathrin Winkler
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Panel lays out concrete moves: Verité documents forced labor via recruitment fees and debt bondage in Malaysian electronics; Levi’s reports responsibility for ~500 factories in 40 countries, a 1991 global code, a 30% supplier consolidation and an IFC-backed trade‑finance incentive tied to sustainability scores; Labor Link deploys mobile worker surveys and pilots wearables for stress data; Flextronics runs 85 factories, $26B revenue, ~14,000 suppliers and urges better planning and circular‑economy pilots to reduce waste.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13Sustainability in the Global Supply System
- 5:18Veve
- 7:25Michael Kobori
- 11:37Flextronics
- 14:35Malaysia
- 16:17Migration
- 17:22Chemicals
- 19:05Workers
- 23:14Design
- 25:22Challenges
- 27:58Supply chain sustainability
- 29:45Chemical regulation
- 31:59Global standards
- 33:25Changing the supply cycle
- 34:36Improving the quality of life
- 37:11Conflict minerals
- 38:10Business value
- 39:38Positive competition
- 46:49Strong business cases
- 48:22Illegal workers
- 50:06Are we too paternalistic
- 52:26Questions
- 54:37Chemical substitution
- 57:00Collaboration
