Survey on Key Challenges and Industry Performance

Results from The Sustainability Survey

19 Sep 2011 – Report

What are the most urgent challenges facing society today? And which of 17 industry sectors are doing the most effective job of managing the most urgent challenges?

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Issue Brief: Displacement

Making displacement work for everyone

01 Apr 2009 – Article

This issue brief explores ways in which companies that displace can ensure the rights of the displaced are respected – and in the best of cases, responsible companies can leave them economically and socially better off.

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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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How Green is Green Enough? (Época Negócios)

25 Apr 2007 – Article

Is recent progress on corporate sustainability likely to be sufficient? In simple terms, how green is green enough – and where do wider social challenges like inequity, corruption or HIV/AIDS fit into the equation?

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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: Chemicals

Bodily trespass and the toxics debate in the EU

25 Aug 2005 – Article

Toxic chemicals have long been a priority of both leading chemical companies and campaigning NGOs. This Issue Brief examines how conflicts over the chemical safety regulation REACH have helped create and frame a new agenda and debate in this area.

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Issue Brief: Human Rights

What role for business?

23 Jun 2004 – Article

Business has been in the spotlight for its human rights record for many years. The scale and significance of business impact on this agenda, and questions about how it should be managed or regulated and by whom, are increasingly coming to the fore.

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Issue Brief: Water

Every drop counts

20 Apr 2004 – Article

Water has become a defining sustainable development issue uniting a range of NGOs and activists - and cutting across interests from the environment to human rights, women’s rights and anti-globalization.

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Issue Brief: Kasky v. Nike

Just sue it

15 Mar 2003 – Article

Kasky v. Nike was a legal case in the United States that rose all the way to the Supreme Court and which has implications for how companies approach and communicate their corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies, initiatives and performance.

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Buried Treasure

Uncovering the business case for corporate sustainability

06 Feb 2001 – Report

Buried treasure maps the impact of corporate sustainable development performance on business success, and tries to uncover if and how it enhances business value.

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