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  • Sustaining Globalisation and Raising Our Game (Sustainability Tomorrow)

    Analysis and recommendations from Raising Our Game: Can We Sustain Globalisation?

    30 Dec 2007 – Article

    A synopsis of SustainAbility analysis and recommendations, as presented to the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi in December 2007.

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  • Champions of a Sort (Director)

    20 Dec 2007 – Article

    When China hosted a World Economic Forum on the new champions of business, talk of global growth was marred by international tensions.

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  • Was Bali a Success? (openDemocracy)

    The Roads from Bali

    18 Dec 2007 – Article

    The climate-change conference in Bali on 3-14 December 2007 ended in agreement, acclaim - and argument about the details. John Elkington joins openDemocracy writers and environmental specialists to offer a first draft of history on the Bali deal.

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  • Issue Brief: China

    New landscapes

    18 Dec 2007 – Article

    China is a populous country of diverse cultures and regions undergoing monumental change. The pace of change is so rapid that tensions and instability are inevitable. For each of modern China’s many achievements, there are complex trade-offs.

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  • 2007: Year of the Supply Chain (Nikkei Ecology)

    Rapid globalization is best illustrated by the ever expanding tentacles of multinational supply chains

    11 Dec 2007 – Article

    In a constant quest to trim production costs, manufacturing companies are aggressively sub-contracting and extending their supply chains. Coastal towns in China are by no means the final frontier.

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  • L’Essor des Achats Responsables (Les Echos)

    11 Dec 2007 – Article

    Leveraging the latest technologies to track and monitor global supply chains can create new opportunities, and mitigate some of the dire ethical and environmental side-effects.

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