The
forum was created by the merger of CIES, GCI and the Global CEO Forum. It
has a mandate from its members to develop common positions on key strategic
and practical issues affecting the consumer goods industry, to focus on
non-competitive collaborative process improvement and to provide network for
thought leadership and knowledge exchange.
GS1 is a
leading global organization dedicated to the design and implementation of
global standards and solutions to improve efficiency and visibility in
supply and demand chains globally and across sectors.
The Global Packaging Sustainability Project
is an initiative launched by the Global CEO Forum in 2008, aiming
to deliver a common set of packaging sustainability indicators and metrics.
The project assembles some 40 companies from the retailing, branded goods
and packaging converter sector in the consumer goods industry. So far it has
delivered a vision of how packaging needs to be addressed in the context of
sustainability, common definitions, the business case for addressing metrics
at the global level and a set of principles for metrics. The next phase will
focus on delivering a global set of common indicators and metrics for
measuring packaging sustainability. This will resonate with work already
underway in the
US
under the Sustainable Packaging Coalition in which a number of consumer
goods manufacturers and retailers are involved.