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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The Committee of Permanent Representatives today endorsed an agreement between the Hellenic Presidency of the Council and European Parliament representatives on a draft directive for the disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large companies. New measures will require certain big EU companies to draw up, on a yearly basis, a statement relating to environmental, social and employee-related matters, […]
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The growing demand for renewable energy could put pressure on the supply of critical materials required in the production of renewable energy infrastructure, says WWF in new report released today. The report, Critical Materials for the transition to a 100% sustainable energy future, says supply chain bottlenecks can be overcome by applying the right technologies. It is possible for renewable […]
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How does business model innovation work? How does each new business model, from car sharing to distributed energy and crowd sourcing, contribute to sustainability? The latest report of Sustainability, Model Behavior, identifies 20 distinct business models that advance sustainability. In the report, they explored each model’s mechanics and implications. In doing so, they hope to […]
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CEOs from leading European companies today called for a strong 2030 climate and energy framework with an ambitious renewable energy target, including binding national targets. An ambitious renewable energy target will boost green growth, creating 570,000 more jobs and saving €260 billion in fossil fuel imports compared to a greenhouse gas (GHG) only approach,1 the CEOs […]
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Companies around the world are struggling to make progress on climate change, resource efficiency and natural capital dependency, according to the 2014 State of Green Business report published by GreenBiz Group in partnership with Trucost plc. The seventh annual edition of the report, which measures the global progress of large, publicly traded companies in addressing a myriad […]
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