Today True Price launched it’s trailblazing consultation report, titled “The Business Case for True Pricing“. The report was written by Deloitte, EY, PwC and True Price. The report explains the business case for measuring, monetizing and improving environmental and social externalities. It will help you to be at the forefront of the global trend towards […]
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A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, represents the latest scientific evidence and should therefore spur urgent action by governments, The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group said today. Members of Corporate Leaders Group include Acciona, Anglian Water, BT, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Doosan, DSM, EDF Energy, GE Lighting, […]
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ING Group has published its 19th Sustainability Report: “Simpler, stronger, sustainable” (PDF). This report provides an overview of our sustainability approach, actions and performance in 2013. The updates are supported by data on key priority areas such as sustainable financing and investment, increasing the financial capability of our customers, environmental performance of our operations, our community […]
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A new global programme, launched Tuesday, will harness the power of the trillions of dollars that governments spend on public procurement each year towards a shift to a more resource-efficient world. The Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) Programme – the first action to get underway as part of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption […]
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Two leading corporate responsibility business associations, AIAG and CSR Europe, facilitator of the European Automotive Working Group on Supply Chain Sustainability, today announced an unprecedented agreement has been reached among 14 global automakers on a set of standards outlining expectations for suppliers on key responsibility issues including human rights, environment, working conditions and business ethics. Participating members aligned […]
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has formed a new sustainability working group at its Working Committee meeting in Mumbai last week. The new Sustainability Working Group is comprised of representatives from a diverse array of global stock exchanges with a mandate to build consensus on the purpose, practicality, and materiality of Environmental, Social, and […]
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Yvo de Boer, the current KPMG Global Chairman of the Climate Change & Sustainability Services (CC&S) and former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has been appointed as head of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Succeeding Howard Bamsey, Mr. de Boer will lead the Seoul-based international organization as Director-General, serving a […]
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The Bangladesh Accord Foundation has today announced the completion of the first reports detailing the results of factory inspections in Bangladesh. Available online on the Accord website as of Tuesday (March 11) 09:00 CET, the reports set out details of current building safety conditions in the first Bangladesh garment factories to be inspected and identify […]
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The potential risks of high-carbon, fossil fuel investments by Europe’s financial industry were highlighted in a new independent study released today, which was commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament (1). Commenting on the study by Profundo and the Sustainable Finance Lab, Green industry spokespersonReinhard Bütikofer stated: “The financial industry is promoting a ‘carbon […]
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New research from Carbon Tracker and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE calls for regulators, governments and investors to re-evaluate energy business models against carbon budgets, to prevent $6trillion carbon bubble in the next decade. Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets has revealed that fossil fuel reserves already far exceed […]
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This year will mark the realization of the first fully circular supply chain in the history of textiles. Dutch aWEARness, a new innovative partner in the textile industry, operates according to the principles of the circular economy. Its fashionable garments and work wear made of the 100% recyclable fabric Returnity® are designed to be reused. […]
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The year 2014 marks the launch of BSCI’s new Code of Conduct, a set of core principles and values that provides a powerful and ambitious reference point to support retail and other importing companies towards the integration of an innovative vision of business that places social responsibility at its core. Based on BSCI’s more than […]
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