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The Inescapability of Traceability
Is Big Oil Next?
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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Signed, Sealed... Delivered?
Behind Certifications and Beyond Labels
Signed, Sealed...Delivered? looks 'behind certifications and beyond labels' at how these tools, and the performance standards that underpin them, create business value.
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The Biodiversity Challenge Revisited
A Review of the Latest Research and Implications for Business
Some businesses are gradually awakening to growing risks and new opportunities as the protection of species and genetic diversity prove more and more critical to global supply chains. Yet too many still assume that government alone has the answers.
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Ocean Assault
An Interview with Caroline Chisholm of Earthwatch
One way to raise awareness of the effects of climate change and pollution on the world’s oceans is to dive right in and find out for yourself.
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Issue Brief: Valuing Nature
The Economics of Ecosystem Services
Can placing a price on ecosystem services help prevent further degradation and depletion of the natural resources society depends on?
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The Biodiversity Challenge for Business
2010 is International Year on Biodiversity, but what might it mean for business?
John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer suggest that biodiversity may soon force its way higher on the corporate sustainability agenda.
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Can Democracy Save the Planet? (openDemocracy)
In the effort to contain global warming and create an environmentally viable world, is democracy help or obstacle? A London conference sought to break new ground on a question of global relevance, report John Elkington & John Lotherington.
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Issue Brief: China
New landscapes
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
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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Citigroup Versus Bank of America: US Banks Compete to Go Green (Nikkei Ecology)
Citigroup invests 50 billion dollars in environmental projects including natural energy
As Citgroup and Bank of America compete with multi-billion-dollar environmental investment initiatives, we ask, how can the outside world check up on the sort of claims such companies are now making? How can we hold them accountable?
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One Planet Business
Creating Value Within Planetary Limits
SustainAbility has worked with WWF to develop and launch the One Planet Business program which offers a new framework to measure resource consumption by business and society, and the challenge in bringing these impacts back within planetary limits.
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Issue Brief: Brazil
Country of diversities and inequalities
Brazil is a land where modern industry and commerce has flourished alongside extraordinary inequality, poverty, crime and violence. In part because of these extremes, Brazil has long been associated with sustainable development.
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Radar: The Liability Issue
See You in Court?
In this edition we consider where questions of moral and retrospective liability will lead us, and ask whether a growing compensation culture will make for a richer or poorer society.
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Issue Brief: Water
Every drop counts
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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Radar: The Commodities Issue
The Taste for Commodities: Who Benefits?
Commodities are the economic lifeblood of many developing countries. What is more, commodity production is often the source of profound and pervasive environmental impacts. In this issue of Radar, we ask, can there be sustainable commodities?
