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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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  • Signed, Sealed... Delivered?

    Behind Certifications and Beyond Labels

    16 Nov 2011 – Report

    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

    27 Oct 2010 – Webinar

    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

    09 Sep 2010 – Conversation

    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

    13 May 2010 – Article

    Can placing a price on ecosystem services help prevent further degradation and depletion of the natural resources society depends on?

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  • Knaves Turned Honest (Food Ethics Council)

    Can 21st century finance sustain 21st century agriculture?

    01 Mar 2010 – Article

    Alexa Clay and Sophia Tickell look at whether 21st century finance can sustain 21st century agriculture.

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  • The Biodiversity Challenge for Business

    2010 is International Year on Biodiversity, but what might it mean for business?

    01 Nov 2009 – Article

    John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer suggest that biodiversity may soon force its way higher on the corporate sustainability agenda.

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  • The Future of Oil (China Dialogue)

    11 Nov 2008 – Article

    New market dynamics created by climate change, geological and geopolitical pressures will transform our hydrocarbon economies, write John Elkington and Gary Kendall.

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  • Get Used to Virtual Burgers (Director)

    30 Oct 2008 – Article

    Water shortage is no longer a virtual problem.

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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

    07 Aug 2007 – Article

    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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  • Goldman Sachs: The Colour of Money (Nikkei Ecology)

    One of the world’s wealthiest firms aims to green investment banking

    03 Jul 2007 – Article

    How Goldman Sachs' growing involvement in environmental, social and governance issues signals powerfully that other financial institutions will need to move.

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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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  • One Planet Business

    Creating Value Within Planetary Limits

    26 Mar 2007 – Report

    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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  • Radar: The Diversity Issue

    The Lifeblood of Ecosystems, Cultures, Economies, Communities and Businesses

    14 Aug 2006 – Radar Archive

    This issue takes a closer look at the subject of diversity – what is meant by it, and how companies are tackling it in their operations and value chains.

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  • Radar: The Consumer Issue

    Born to Shop?

    05 Dec 2004 – Radar Archive

    The facts on such issues as fair wages, eco-efficiency, chemical loads and human rights demand that we consume more carefully. The issue confronts the complexities of trying to reconcile our ‘wants’ with our ‘needs’.

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