Of the 1,402 suppliers asked to provide information, just 710 companies, or 51 percent, passed on data and answered questions for the project's second annual report on emissions reductions plans and attitudes in the manufacturing supply chain. Only 27 percent of suppliers responded to last year's survey, which the project says represents an improvement in awareness even though suppliers still lag far behind their major corporate customers in taking steps to curb their greenhouse gas output.

Eighty-nine percent of project members say they have plans to follow the likes of Wal-Mart, Dell and others in requiring suppliers to calculate their carbon footprints and spell out strategies for reducing them. But despite their stated intentions to get tougher on suppliers, today only 20 percent of the 2,200 companies disclosing their emissions levels say that they have the ability to accurately measure or estimate their suppliers' output of greenhouse gas pollution.

Fifty-six percent of members tell the project that they are even prepared to go so far as dropping companies from their list of suppliers in the future, though just 6 percent said they would take those harsh steps today. Among the suppliers that did provide information for the study, just 38 percent say they have plans to calculate and reduce the emissions from their operations, versus 82 percent of project member companies that do.

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