Tech-focused start-up eRevalue today announces Helle Bank Jorgensen as Chairman of the Board of Directors, marking the official launch of the company. Jorgensen is a global board facilitator for the UN Global Compact Board Programme and the Head of the UN Global Compact in Canada. She is also the CEO of B.Accountability – a consultancy […]
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Company leaders are rallying behind sustainability, and executives overall believe the issue is increasingly important to their companies’ strategy. But as it continues to grow into a core business issue, challenges to capturing its full value lie ahead. These are among the key findings from our most recent McKinsey survey on the topic,1 which asked respondents about […]
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De Lage Landen (DLL), a leading global financial solutions provider, helped to start up Rabobank’s Circular Economy (CE) Challenge in the Netherlands. This year-long initiative is designed to provide participating companies from the Food & Agri and Automotive sectors with insights into the opportunities and challenges of embracing a circular economic business model. In a […]
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Accenture research shows that leading organizations are now adopting circular economy models—decoupling growth from scarce resources and, thus, gaining a competitive edge (what we call a circular advantage). We are rapidly approaching a point where the linear growth model is no longer viable for companies. This is due to the rising global affluence, the inability […]
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Only a third of consumers regularly consider sustainability in their purchasing decisions, according to a global study by Accenture and Havas Media RE:PURPOSE, which reveals the reasons for the disconnect between business and consumer expectations of sustainable products and services. The report, “From Marketing to Mattering”, is based on a survey of 30,000 consumers in 20 […]
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The UN Global Compact today announced that it has expelled 285 companies in the first half of 2014 for failure to communicate progress for at least two consecutive years. The list of 285 expelled companies can be found here. These expelled companies represent eight percent of the 3,404 participants due to submit a Communication on Progress […]
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The Natural Capital Coalition (NCC) is pleased to announce its selection of two consortia to develop what will be known as the Natural Capital Protocol. The Protocol will provide a methodology for businesses across the world to understand the impacts that they have and the extent to which they are dependent on the natural environment, […]
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The majority of the world’s major cities have disclosed that climate change presents a physical risk to the businesses operating in their cities. This real and current threat is driving local governments to take concrete action in response, so finds Protecting our Capital, a new report from CDP, formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, AECOM and C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group […]
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What was once a niche has now become mainstream. Ever since “green” products arose in the 1970s, they’ve been dismissed by grocery executives as too expensive or low quality to interest most buyers. But a new report from The Boston Consulting Group, When Social Responsibility Leads to Growth: An Imperative for Consumer Companies to Go Green, […]
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Today the Commission adopted proposals to turn Europe into a more circular economy and boost recycling in the Member States. Achieving the new waste targets would create 580 000 new jobs compared to today’s performance, while making Europe more competitive and reducing demand for costly scarce resources. The proposals also mean lower environmental impacts and reduced […]
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In the beginning of June, 2014, the official results of of the impact study were released at a a CEO Roundtable Dinner at FOX Theater, hosted by Park 20/20 in Hoofddorp, just outside Amsterdam in The Netherlands. The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute commissioned Trucost to develop an assessment framework to determine the effect […]
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G20 officials meeting in Australia later this year must make it harder for the corrupt to hide behind secret companies, Transparency International said today as it launched a global campaign to “unmask the corrupt”. Today many leading economies do not require or record information about who really owns or controls companies registered in their country, […]
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