Resource Listings

Paint the Town Green

This report by Forum for the future explains how to conduct innovation driven by environmental and social responsibility and why it makes good business sense.

 

How Green is the Supply Chain? Practice and Research

This paper provides an overview of environmental (green) supply chain management. The overview includes a categorization of research and practice in purchasing, manufacturing, outbound, and reverse logistics dimensions.

 

Tackling Climate Change on the Ground

This publication presents some corporate case studies on land use and climate change. The various cases demonstrate that t here is no single, globally applicable sustainable management solution for land use. Business is only part of the solution and must work with governments, civil society and others to develop a range of land-use approaches that tackle climate change.

Supply Chain Decarbonization: The Role of Logistics and Transportation in Reducing Supply Chain Carbon Emissions

This report by World Economic Forum and Accenture examines opportunities for carbon emissions reduction across supply chains.

 

Green Marketing: What Works; What Doesn’t - A Marketing Study of Practitioners

The autors took a critical look at green marketing and found that marketers who have actually experimented with green messages generally found them much more effective than their typical messaging fare. But there are areas where it proved more and less effective. The authors studied the media used, the types of companies, and the internal management and politics of those organizations.

 

How to Manage Carbon Reduction, and Make It Pay

A hands-on management briefing on real life ways big UK companies cut carbon, and their costs

 

State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures

This publication sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.

 

The Business of Adaptation

Climate change is a business issue and businesses are responding with the things they do best: driving out inefficiency, innovating new technologies, products and services and pioneering new markets. But the truth is they are only concentrating on half the problem.

 

Education for Sustainable Development and Climate Change

This document, edited by UNESCO’s Education for sustainable development section, aims at helping decision-makers implement consistent policies and programmes by providing recommendations. 

May Day Carbon UK Report - A Survey on the 2010 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)

This report was commissioned to find out how prepared the UK’s businesses really are for climate change, and for the impending regulations that the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation will bring in April 2010.