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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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  • Appetite for Change

    Reinventing the Global Food System

    23 Jun 2011 – Report

    Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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  • Urbanization and Megacities in Emerging Economies

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    10 Feb 2011 – Audio/Video

    GlobeScan and SustainAbility surveyed sustainability experts and practitioners to explore how the rise in urbanization and the growth of megacities, particularly in emerging economies, will impact the corporate sustainability agenda.

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  • Road to Credibility 2010

    A Survey of Sustainability Reporting in Brazil

    28 Oct 2010 – Report

    Road to Credibility 2010 focuses on how effectively Brazilian businesses are reporting on their sustainability efforts.

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  • NGOs in China: In the Market for Change?

    An Interview with Simon Li, Director of Social Resources Institute

    18 Oct 2010 – Conversation

    Simon Li of the Social Resources Institute talks to Frances Buckingham about the need for a Chinese translation of The 21st Century NGO: In the Market for Change and gives his insight on the emergence and evolution of China's non-profit sector.

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  • Pharma Futures 3

    Emerging Opportunities

    23 Feb 2009 – Report

    Emerging markets are now significant players in global trade. Yet they are also very different than mature markets and more complex to manage. For the pharmaceutical industry in particular, they have often presented both challenges and opportunities.

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  • Peak Oil: Why $40 Per Barrel Is No Cause for Complacency

    22 Feb 2009 – Article

    Gary Kendall, Executive Director of SustainAbility, and David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock, on why peak oil still deserves attention even as global oil prices retreat due to recession.

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  • 2008: A Year of Extremes (Nikkei Ecology)

    Weather, exchange rates, commodity prices and the potential for new economic paradigms

    15 Jan 2009 – Article

    2008 turned out to be a year of extremes. The question now is whether 2009 will join 1929, 1939 and 1989 in the list of years when a totally new economic and political order began to surface.

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  • Crunch Time for China (Director)

    30 Nov 2008 – Article

    China now faces a disorienting triple crunch, and its responses will powerfully shape our world 15 years hence.

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  • A Silver Lining to the Credit Crisis (Qfinance)

    How the current pain can become investors' gain

    14 Nov 2008 – Article

    Peter Zollinger and John Schaetzel write for the online financial journal Qfinance, on how the current crisis offers the world an opportunity to rethink how to invest for the long-term.

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  • Subprimes et Mélamine, Deux Catastrophes Liées (Le Monde)

    18 Oct 2008 – Article

    Les chefs d'entreprise exploiteront-ils la crise comme alibi pour justifier l'inaction?

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  • Time to Tackle Subprime Supply Chains (Le Monde)

    A link between the credit crisis and Chinese toxic milk potentially affects us all

    18 Oct 2008 – Article

    For those business leaders wondering whether they can use the economic crisis as an alibi for inaction or cutting back, our answer is yes and no.

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  • In Doha’s Fading Light, a Call to Action (China Dialogue)

    13 Oct 2008 – Article

    Nationalistic tendencies have hindered the world’s ability to address developing countries’ interests. A solution that fosters cooperation while supporting the principles of sustainable development is crucial write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe.

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  • Repowering the World (Director)

    30 Sep 2008 – Article

    The US must reinvent.

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  • Supply and Demand (China Dialogue)

    11 Sep 2008 – Article

    The unsung heroes of globalisation are those working to help suppliers act effectively and sustainably, write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe. Now nongovernmental groups are getting involved in the process.

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