This week marks the publication of The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability – Designing for Abundance, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. It’s their first book since their 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, a bestseller that helped change the conversation about designing and manufacturing, envisioning a closed-loop system where every material was returned to the soil, or back into the manufacturing process with no harm or loss of quality.
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The European Union has yesterday agreed historic new rules which will require oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish the payments they make for access to natural resources in all countries where they operate.
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Here at Green Mondays we believe in the ability of the crowd to advance thinking on the big ideas shaping sustainable business strategy.
Our new Changemaker series is an example of this in action: a unique platform allowing sustainability leaders to drive forward systemic change by harnessing the collective wisdom of sustainability and business experts across the FTSE350.
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As part of its annual corporate sustainability ranking process, RobecoSAM, the company behind the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), produced with S&P Dow Jones Indices, will now ask public companies the same climate change questions as those developed over the past decade by CDP, provider of the only global environmental disclosure system and producer of the annual Climate Disclosure and Climate Performance Leadership Indexes (CDLI & CPLI). This collaboration will improve the comparability of sustainability data in the global market and will simplify the process for companies answering multiple requests for environmental information.
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Nederland is drie plaatsen gedaald en staat met plaats 11 niet meer in de top 10 van de ‘Sustainable Competitiveness Index’.
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Since the international community formulated the goal of a “green economy” at the Rio+20 summit in summer 2012, if not earlier, public attention has increasingly been focussing on the economy’s contribution to global sustainable development. But how are companies tackling the issue of sustainability, and what concrete action are they taking to combat climate change, to protect species diversity or to fight poverty? The sustainability rating agency oekom research looks into this question in its latest Corporate Responsibility Review.
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The European Commission encourages enterprises to base their approach to CSR on internationally recognised CSR guidelines and principles. This is especially the case for larger enterprises and for enterprises seeking to adopt a more formal approach to CSR.
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The Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, announced today the sixth annual selection of the World’s Most Ethical (WME) Companies, highlighting a record 145 organizations that show leadership in promoting ethical business standards.
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Volans today launches a new market intelligence report calling on business leaders to help drive ‘breakthrough’ innovation, as part of a coming revolution in global markets.
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Today GreenBiz launched its annual State of Green Business report with new research from Trucost on the environmental performance of U.S. companies and Global companies
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Europe needs a comprehensive frame work on corporate social responsibility (CSR), according to two European Parliament reports, however a split still exists over how best to achieve responsible company practices.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has today launched the Circular Economy 100 (‘CE100’), a three year programme aimed at bringing together a network of 100 leading companies globally to facilitate development and commitment to new circular economy projects. The CE100 will provide executive education on key themes and emerging trends, share knowledge and new learnings, and identify and develop solutions to common challenges. The objective is that by 2015 participating companies will have triggered circular initiatives that will result in an aggregated economic benefit of $10bn for the businesses involved.
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