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A salmon supply chain made climate responsibility an institutional problem

Evidence
Peer-reviewed
Geography
United Kingdom, Norway and Scotland seafood supply-chain relationships
System
Aquaculture; corporate environmental governance; value chains

WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS

A qualitative international-business analysis published October 16 examines a multinational salmon supply chain in which a parent company and its British subsidiary coordinated suppliers operating under differing national institutions. The paper traces how reporting expectations and local practices shape work on indirect supply-chain emissions.

WHY IT MATTERS / OUR READ

Environmental ambition becomes measurable only when buyers, farms, reporting methods and verification systems can act together. A supplier code or climate target is not, by itself, a measured ecological outcome.

CAVEATS / UNCERTAINTY

Interview and documentary evidence describe governance and coordination; they do not independently verify actual emissions reductions, fish welfare improvements or additional conservation outcomes.

SOURCE

Management International Review · salmon supply-chain institutional study
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