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Business solutions to enable energy access for all

volodja — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:16:05 -0600

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

volodja — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:54:19 -0600

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

volodja — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:55:46 -0600

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

volodja — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:32:00 -0600

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

volodja — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:04:28 -0600

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)

volodja — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:53:05 -0600

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

volodja — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:43:25 -0600

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

volodja — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:05:40 -0600

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

volodja — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:17:27 -0600

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

volodja — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:10:41 -0600

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

More with Less: Scaling Sustainable Consumption and Resource Efficiency

volodja — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:49:38 -0600

This report focuses on how consumption can be made more sustainable through decoupling growth from environmental impact at the scale and speed required.

Responsible Business: a Key to Competitiveness

volodja — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:24:10 -0600

Socially responsible businesses play a crucial role in achieving sustainable economic growth through generating consumer confidence and positively contributing towards society’s well-being. Supporting responsible entrepreneurship is an EU priority, as a recently adopted package of measures demonstrates.

2012 Investor Action Plan on Climate Risks and Opportunities

volodja — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:38:38 -0600

Leading members of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) announced the 2012 Investor Action Plan on Climate Risks and Opportunities. The 2012 Action Plan includes action items in three broad categories: investment practices; corporate engagement; and policy advocacy.

How Investors are Applying Results of the Climate Change Scenarios Study

volodja — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:21:56 -0600

A progress report on how large institutional investors are addressing climate change, following on the climate change asset allocation study Mercer released in 2011.

B Corps Firms with benefits

volodja — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:11:48 -0600

California’s B Corp legislation took effect alongside a new law creating the “flexible purpose company” (FlexC), which allows a firm to adopt a specific social or environmental goal, rather than the broader obligations of a B Corp.

Greening Household Behaviour: The Role of Public Policy

volodja — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:26:05 -0600

This publication offers new insight into what policy measures really work, looking at what factors affect people’s behaviour towards the environment in areas such as water use, energy use, personal transport choices, organic food consumption, waste generation and recycling.

Tomorrow's Corporate Reporting: A Critical System at Risk

volodja — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:36:04 -0600

The focus of this study has not been the ideal content of a report: we recognise the excellent and important work being done by many others, notably the International Integrated Reporting Committee. Instead, the focus of our work has been on the overall architecture, culture and behaviours of those engaged in the corporate reporting system

A New Foundation for Portfolio Management

volodja — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:04:37 -0600

We are reaching a tipping point in portfolio management--a moment in which investors are expressing unique sets of goals and priorities that require a nuanced definition and understanding of economic utility. The purpose of this paper is to propose three new investment decision-making principles related to risk, growth, and utility: Integrated Risk, Selective Growth, and Multidimensional Utility Functions.

Sustainability Nears a Tipping Point

volodja — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:55:13 -0600

In 2011 more survey respondents say sustainability is on their company’s management agenda. Not all companies have found ways to profit from their sustainability efforts — but those that have share some interesting characteristics.

Microcultures: Cultural Sustainable Development in France

volodja — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:57:13 -0600

In early 2011, Louis-Jean Teitelbaum and Jean-Charles Dufeu embarked on an innovative project. Combining their interests in technology, the arts and e-commerce, they created Microcultures, an online company that provides strategic, operational and financial support to independent music artists.