The percentage of companies reporting a profit from their sustainability efforts rose 23 percent last year, to 37 percent, according to the most recent global study by the MIT Sloan Management Review (MIT SMR) and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The study, “The Innovation Bottom Line,” was released today on the MIT SMR website.
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation launches Towards the Circular Economy Vol.2: opportunities for the consumer goods sector , a new report, featuring analysis by McKinsey & Co, which builds on last year’s report and makes the case for a faster adoption, quantifies the economic benefits of circular business models, and lays out pathways for action.
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Corporate Knights, the Toronto-based media and investment research company, announced today its Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable corporations at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Seventy percent of companies believe that climate change has the potential to affect their revenue significantly, a risk which is intensified by a chasm between the sustainable business practices of multinational corporations and their suppliers, according to research published today by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Accenture.
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Companies from the USA, Germany and South Korea are at the top of the 2013 international gold medal-table for sustainable business, according to The Sustainability Yearbook 2013.
The 10th edition of The Sustainability Yearbook will be published by RobecoSAM, the investment specialist focused exclusively on Sustainability Investing and KPMG International at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on 23 January 2013.
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The results of Reputation Institute’s 2012 CSR RepTrak 100 Study uncover that many of the world’s 100 most reputable companies have little to show for the millions of dollars they spend on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
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More than half of CEOs see energy and raw material costs as a threat to their business growth – a three year high according to analysts.
The new research shows 53% of CEOs – a 7% increase on last year’s results – said the issue had now overtaken consumer spending and behaviour as one of the top threats to growth prospects.
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Today marks the official launch of Europe’s first ever pan-European CSR Award Scheme – an EU funded CSR Award Programme aimed at giving higher visibility to best practice in the field of CSR in Europe.
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Corporate and investor relations firm Adam Friedman Associates (“AFA”) announced the results of a new global survey of corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) executives that focused on how executives within Fortune 1000 organizations develop, measure and report the results of their CSR initiatives. The key findings revealed that profits and CSR are closely linked, and many businesses evaluate the relationship between these two variables when developing strategy.
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On the eve of the holiday shopping season, a new study by BBMG, GlobeScan and SustainAbility finds that consumers are rethinking consumption with sustainability in mind. According to the Regeneration Consumer Study, two-thirds of consumers in six countries say that “as a society, we need to consume a lot less to improve the environment for future generations” (66%), and that they feel “a sense of responsibility to purchase products that are good for the environment and society” (65%). The findings are based on an online survey of 6,224 consumers across Brazil, China, India, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States conducted in September and October 2012.
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The UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights may form the common ground between electronics companies and civil society organisations in addressing labour issues such as the excessive use of temporary labour. This is an important outcome of the Round Table on worker’s rights in the global electronics sector that took place in May 2012 in Amsterdam. A report summarising the debate of the Round Table will be released yesterday.
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As the ISO 26000 guidance standard on social responsibility reaches its second anniversary, ISO Secretary-General, Rob Steele, challenged participants at a two-day open forum in Geneva, Switzerland, to consider what has been done so far, and where the road should take us next, by asking, “So what?”
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