Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 3:30 PM
South American AB (Capital Hilton)
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Benchmarking Sustainability

Darlene Schuster, AIChE Institute for Sustainability, Washington, DC, Subhas Sikdar, US EPA, and Calvin B. Cobb, Institute for Sustainability, Cypress, TX.

Various sustainability indices have appeared on the market, ranging from the AIChE Sustainability Index to financial sustainability indices. This presentation will discuss the roles of benchmarking sustainability performance and the utility of such benchmarks for the chemical industry as the approach greening along their supply chains