This report analyses and classifies the prevailing and emerging supply chain management practices for environmental protection in the supply chains of cotton, tin, natural rubber, coffee and iron ore/steel. To provide the background for this analysis, it contains an inventory of operational approaches to and instruments for sustainable supply chain management at the company level. In addition, the report stresses the contextual factors in which companies operate and which influence their ability to share the costs and benefits of implementing environmental protection measures and exchanging environmental data with other actors in their value chain.