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Cement Technology Roadmap
A roadmap published by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) calls for strong national policies to activate known CO2 mitigation actions that the sector can take now.
Betting on Science: Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels
Accenture’s research report, Betting on Science, Disruptive Technologies in Transport Fuels, identifies 12 technologies that have the potential to disrupt current supply, demand and GHG forecasts.
Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila
Workplace Challenges: Managing Layoffs, and Motivating Those Left Behind
The current downturn has left many companies scrambling to manage workplace issues -- ranging from how to avoid a brain drain to how they can provide better value to customers and clients. Employees, for their part, face the challenges that arise from working in a leaner organization that demands increased productivity with fewer resources.
Microfinance's Elusive Quest: Finding an Accurate Measure of Social Impact
For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor -- mostly women -- and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate poverty, improve health, increase education and promote women's empowerment.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
The Eight Biggest Myths about Sustainability in Business
Corporate Social Responsibility Enters the Strategic Realm
The publication by Jon Bentley represents the results of IBM Global Business Services survey on three information areas related to sustainability: operations, supply chain and costumers.
What Is Greenwashing?
Unfortunately in this day and age there are companies that mislead
customers by making false claims about a green product or service as an outlet to market and/or sell their product.
The report maps the overall attitude toward corporate citizenship, and the influence on
corporate citizenship practices, of key stakeholders in Chile, China, Germany, Italy, Mexico,
Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It found that globally,
governments ranked high in influence on, as well as mid-to-positive in attitude toward, corporate
citizenship.
Organizations have recently sharpened their focus on sustainability,
primarily in response to consumer and stakeholder expectations.
Consequently, they face an entirely new set of decisions. However, most
lack the information required to make these strategic choices. Based on
what we’ve learned from outperforming organizations and leading CSR
organizations, authors believe businesses should develop new sources of
operational, supply chain and customer information to gain new levels
of insight for meeting strategic sustainability objectives.
The report - "Sustainable Value" - looks in detail at how ESG performance impact business success, how companies explain these linkages to investors, and how the investment community treats this
data. It goes on to argue that growing sustainability pressures are likely to make these linkages more important in the future.