Global food prices, which have been rising since 2012, may be ready for another hike. In a report released Thursday, Ceres, a sustainable business consortium based in Boston, found that most food companies aren’t prepared to deal with the water risks that it expects will lead to higher water and food prices. “We are coming to an end […]
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Een groep topmannen van 43 grote bedrijven waaronder Unilever, ING, AkzoNobel en DSM, hebben een open brief geschreven over het klimaatprobleem. Ze dringen daarin aan bij wereldleiders op actie. Open Letter from Global CEOs to World Leaders Urging Concrete Climate Action: CEO-led initiative to create a fertile ground for a responsible and global climate deal […]
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Heineken N.V. today publishes its 2014 Sustainability Report, highlighting strong progress made during the year. Highlights are: Water use now below 4 hl per hl of beer produced; 30% less CO2 emissions (per hl) in production since 2008; 20% of electricity from renewable sources; Local sourcing of raw materials in Africa reaches 48%; ‘Dance More […]
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A growing number of investors are exploring sustainable investing. In 2012, $1 out of every $9 of US assets under professional management was invested in some form of sustainable investment, primarily in public equities. In 2014 that number increased to $1 out of every $6 – to a total of $6.57 trillion now invested sustainably. […]
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An increasing number of companies make sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date however, the prior academic literature has not distinguished between investments in material versus immaterial sustainability issues. We develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping data on sustainability investments classified as material […]
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The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Leadership Network has published four guides to help the finance and accounting community address the practical issues of integrating sustainability into their business processes and decisions. The guides have been developed by the A4S Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Leadership Network and their teams (comprising […]
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Today WWF launches a new report – “From crisis to opportunity: Five steps to sustainable European economies” – showing that resource efficiency alone could generate per year the equivalent of the Juncker Investment Plan of over 300 billion euros for the EU economy. WWF launches this report at the moment when the 28 European Economic […]
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BRE, the organization responsible for the marketing and development of the BREEAM green building certification scheme, today announces its partnership with GRESB, the leading global sustainability benchmark for real estate portfolios. Collaboration between the two global organizations will promote their shared goals of advancing transparency and sustainability performance in the real estate industry. The BREEAM […]
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As result of the ‘Nature Inspired Design project’, the Nature Inspired Design Handbook has been published. In the Nature Inspired Design project, we learned from ten Dutch companies at the forefront of Biomimicry, cradle to cradle and design for the circular economy – which we shall from now on jointly call “Nature Inspired Design”. How to […]
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Ms Marjolein Demmers, Director Corporate Responsibility at Royal HaskoningDHV was awarded with the ‘Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Award’ presented by Mr. Sanjay Muthal, Orane Consulting Private Limited at the World CSR Congress on 18 February 2015 in Mumbai, India. The Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Award is a platform for recognising the best practices […]
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Failing? On the contrary, argues Roel Nieuwenkamp, chair of the OECD working party on responsible business conduct, we’re getting better at holding businesses to account. Two weeks ago campaigner Christine Haigh looked at the mechanism that allows you to report a company for breaching international guidelines on responsible behaviour, and came to the conclusion that they […]
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The first comprehensive guidance for companies to report on human rights issues in line with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) launches today in London. The guidance, the United Nations Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, is the culmination of 18 months of research and consultation led by the leading centre of […]
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