Resource Listings

Business solutions to enable energy access for all

The publication presents the key opportunity areas for scaling up this business contribution in expanding access to energy – innovative business models, enabling policy frameworks and financing mechanisms – and provides recommendations on how to enable these opportunities.

Assessing Green Jobs Potential in Developing Countries

This book provides guidance on how to estimate the actual and potential level of economic activity and number of jobs related to the environment in a developing country context.

Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing

The final report of the 22-member Panel, established by the Secretary-General in August 2010 to formulate a new blueprint for sustainable development and low-carbon prosperity contains 56 recommendations to put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy.

Edelman Trust Barometer 2012

The 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer measures attitudes about the state of trust in business, government, NGOs and media across 25 countries.

Consultation on Delivering more Sustainable Consumption and Production

The European Commission wants to gather views and additional information on the possible introduction of EU wide measures related to Sustainable Consumption and Production.

German Companies and Demographic Change (in German)

Brochure (currently only available in German) containes detailed information on life-phase oriented personnel management in many econsense member companies as well as other German companies.

The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry

Coal mining is one of China’s largest industries, and provides an excellent case study through which to consider the broader issues of China’s transition from socialism to capitalism, focussing on the shift to a market economy, the rise of rural industry and the situation of China’s working class.

A Green Growth Strategy for Food and Agriculture

A major shift in farm policy and practice is needed if a growing world population is to be fed without over-exploiting scarce natural resources or further damaging the environment, according to this OECD report.

Shared Value: Rebuilding Pharma’s Contract with Society

The report explores the growing challenge of reconciling unmet patient need with pharmaceutical R&D, in the context of changes in what society is willing to pay for and concerns among investors about the return on investment.

Institutional Change in the Making - The Case of SRI

Highly Commendable dissertation in the EFMD Emerald 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the category Interdisciplinary accounting research.