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  • The Inescapability of Traceability

    Is Big Oil Next?

    05 Dec 2011 – Report

    Growing interest in supply chain traceability is set to become a major aspect of corporate sustainability - and is likely to affect an unsuspecting oil industry.

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  • The Future of Energy

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    08 Jun 2011 – Audio/Video

    Jeff Erikson interprets the latest survey on the future of energy – examining how governments will proceed, how experts perceive nuclear and what role energy will play in corporate sustainability strategies in the wake of Fukushima Daiichi.

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  • Issue Brief: Distributed Generation

    Taking Control of the Power

    10 Aug 2010 – Article

    Recent changes in technology and regulations, and an increasing concern over the environmental impacts of large-scale power plants, have driven new interest – and investment – in distributed generation.

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  • EDF: Is Nuclear Really an Economic Option? (Nikkei Ecology)

    10 Jun 2008 – Article

    Electricité de France (EDF), the French leader in nuclear electricity generation, has announced a “global nuclear renaissance”.

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  • The Race to Sustainable Mobility (Sustainability Tomorrow)

    An interview with Mr. Dave Berdish, Manager, Ford Motor

    12 Feb 2008 – Conversation

    When many think of Ford, they think trucks and SUVs. What does the company mean by 'sustainable mobility'? Is it car-centered, and is this just a more palatable way to sell more vehicles without improving their environmental performance?

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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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  • Country Study: China

    New Landscapes

    27 Nov 2007 – Report

    As levels of trade and foreign direct investment soar, China is also confronted by polarising inequalities of wealth and opportunity, a schism between rural and urban development, and environmental degradation of national and global significance.

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  • Climate Change's Right and Wrong Fixes (openDemocracy)

    02 Feb 2007 – Article

    There are effective technological responses to global warming, argue John Elkington & Geoff Lye, but they must be true and long-term.

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  • Radar: The China Issue

    What Does the Future Hold?

    08 Feb 2006 – Radar Archive

    How China’s growing role and influence on the world stage may have more to offer sustainable development than is commonly acknowledged.

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  • Radar: The Security Issue

    Safety, Comfort and Protection, But At What Cost?

    05 Oct 2005 – Radar Archive

    Security touches us deeply because it feeds off, and can fuel, our fears. Offers of security draw us with promises of safety, comfort and protection. The question though, is at what cost to freedom and opportunity, for us and for society at large?

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  • Issue Brief: Fuel Cells

    Full power ahead?

    20 Oct 2004 – Article

    As the key technology for harnessing the power of hydrogen, the fuel cell has the potential to play a central role in the response to the challenges of both energy security and climate change. So how excited should we be?

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  • The Oil Sector Report

    A Review of Environmental Disclosure in the Oil Industry

    17 Jul 1999 – Report

    The first in our series to examine how individual industries are addressing the expanding environmental and social reporting agendas.

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