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How to reduce the hidden environmental costs of supply chains

  • Written by: Benjamin Selwyn, Professor of International Relations and International Development, Department of International Relations, University of Sussex
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Global supply chains account for 70% of world trade. They are the arteries of global capitalism, moving goods and services across borders multiple times before reaching consumers.

Since the early 1990s — as part of economic globalisation — these networks have enabled mass consumption by delivering cheap goods made usi...

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