In a year that has seen a record number of companies promising to rid their commodity supply chains of deforestation, new data from CDP’s forests program shows that nearly 90% of companies see opportunities in shifting to sustainably sourcing key commodities. ‘Deforestation-free supply chains: From commitments to action’, CDP’s global forests report, launched today during […]
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Stephanie Dexter (Heineken/USA), Janis Tong (Good Lab/Hong Kong sponsored by ABN AMRO) and Merve Şensoy (Ferrero/Turkey) have been announced the winners of the first Nudge Global Leadership Challenge 2014. The competition challenged 30 young professionals from 16 countries to gain insight into their own talents and development areas of leadership and sustainability. The prize is […]
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Two thirds of the world’s largest companies are reporting exposure to water risks, some of which have potential to limit growth. The news comes amid mounting shareholder concern around the business impacts from water scarcity, accessibility and poor water quality. The latest annual global water report, released today by CDP, an international NGO that drives […]
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The world’s biggest companies disclose little or no financial details about their operations outside their home country, a new report from Transparency International reveals today. Ninety of the 124 companies assessed do not disclose the taxes they pay in foreign countries, while 54 disclose no information on their revenues in other countries. The report, Transparency […]
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The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United Nations Global Compact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) have joined forces to mobilize the private sector as a key player in achieving our world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, to be launched by the United Nations in September 2015, seek to end poverty, […]
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Many leading economies are failing to stop their companies from spreading corruption around the world, anti-corruption group Transparency International warned today in its annual progress report on enforcement of the OECD anti-bribery convention. Fifteen years after the entry into force of the convention, only four of 41 countries signed up are actively investigating and prosecuting […]
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The new (2014) edition of the Global Green Economy Index™ (GGEI) has been published. It measures both the green economic performance of 60 countries and how experts assess that performance. The GGEI performance index uses quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure how well each country performs on four key dimensions: leadership & climate change, efficiency sectors, markets […]
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In 2014, many organisations may say they understand the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability, but can they really demonstrate the integration of these concepts into the way they work? When the EFQM Excellence Model was first issued in 1992, the inclusion of a criterion called “Impact on Society” caused the most discussion. […]
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A study has revealed that only three per cent of the world’s largest listed companies* report on all basic sustainability metrics. In their third annual study, “Measuring Sustainability Disclosure: Ranking the World’s Stock Exchanges”, investment advisory and research firm Corporate Knights Capital, researched how well global stock exchanges encourage listed companies to disclose basic corporate responsibility […]
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With momentum building towards the UN Climate Change Conference in Peru, new figures from Grant Thornton’s International Business Report (IBR), a survey of 2,500 companies in 34 economies, reveal that businesses leaders in emerging markets are more focused on the sustainability of their operations compared with peers in developed markets. This is the key finding […]
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The United Nations Global Compact – an initiative encouraging sustainable and socially responsible policies for businesses worldwide – released its finalized Corporate Water Disclosure Guidelines on September 30. The guidelines set out a common approach for businesses to disclose their water management practices to stakeholders. “Sustainable water management and advancing a common approach to disclosure […]
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EY examined how boards can capitalize on diversity to improve their own performance, particularly with regard to managing risk, while they prepare for the possible introduction of quotas at the same time. For this report, board chairs and non-executives from Europe and other regions shared their views on this important topic. The business case for […]
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