Now more than ever, leaders need to focus on what matters most – the longterm resilience of people and the planet – the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability urged in its report presented today to UN Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon in Addis Ababa.
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Connie Hedegaard has made the following statement: “Today the United Nations Global Sustainability Panel launched its report. The world must decide now what to do with it: either take it as another report for another shelf or take it as a serious wake-up call and act.
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SAM published The Sustainability Yearbook 2012 – one of the world’s most comprehensive publications on corporate sustainability.
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The Global 100 is the most extensive data-driven corporate sustainability assessment in existence, and inclusion is limited to a select group of the top 100 large-cap companies in the world. Launched in 2005, the annual Global 100 is announced each year during the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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More companies are using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs to talk about sustainability than ever before. Social Media Sustainability Index puts GE, IBM, Sony and Levi in the top ten.
Fast-forward to the end of 2011 and a new landscape of social media sustainability is emerging. In researching the new SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index we identified at least 250 major corporates that are engaged in some form of social media sustainability comms. Of those more than 100 have a blog, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter channel dedicated to talking about sustainability.
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Here are the biggest developments to watch for this year in the ever growing and changing world of corporate social responsibility. This article is by Tim Mohin, director of corporate responsibility for Advanced Micro Devices and author of the forthcoming book Changing Business From the Inside Out: The Treehugger’s Guide to Working in Corporations.
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Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine has released its analysis of the results of the second annual CR Best Practices Survey, a survey of CR professionals performed earlier this year in cooperation with the Corporate Responsibility Officers Association (CROA) and NYSE Euronext. The findings provide the CR community with important insights on the state of corporate citizenship, how this has changed year-over-year, and some of the field’s best practices.
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This year, 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.
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How businesses can embrace environmental, social and governance metrics.
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, when the United States was preparing its visionary plan for nurturing democratic capitalism abroad, Gen. Omar Bradley said, “It is time to steer by the stars, and not by the lights of each passing ship.” Today, more than 60 years later, that means abandoning short-term economic thinking for “sustainable capitalism.”
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McKinsey Global Institute published an interesting report with the title: “Resource revolution: Meeting the world’s energy, materials, food, and water needs”.
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Unilever knocked Nike from its three-year reign as the top-scoring firm in the annual Climate Counts assessment of major consumer brands and their work toward corporate climate responsibility.
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Sustainability leader and Worldconnector Herman Mulder has been appointed Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)’s Board of Directors.
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