• Water Management in Action

    EDF Group

    Water is used in energy production and supply, and, in turn, energy is used for pumping, moving, and treating water. As a result, in a context of climate change, the linkages between both energy and water systems have grown more complex and interdependent.  more[...]

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  • Corporate Governance: The Way to Sustainable Finance

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank (AAIB) firmly believes that the road to impactful corporate governance entails values that achieve sustainable businesses as an end goal – AAIB seeks to maintain the balance between economic growth, profitability, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns.  more[...]

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  • Corporate Governance: The Way to Sustainable Finance

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank (AAIB) firmly believes that the road to impactful corporate governance entails values that achieve sustainable businesses as an end goal – AAIB seeks to maintain the balance between economic growth, profitability, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns.  more[...]

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  • Employee Engagement is not Enough

    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd

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    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd 
     
  • Conflict Minerals

    Resource conflict is one of several destabilizing phenomena commonly cited as defining many of the extractive economies of the global south. Our Tutorial discusses all aspects of the issue with a special focus on US laws, SEC and Dodd-Frank Act regulations.  more[...]

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  • Viennese Sustainable HRM

    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd

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    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd 
     
  • Conflict minerals: What you need to know about the new disclosure and reporting requirements and how Ernst & Young can help

    Ernst & Young

    This Studie discusses Section 1502 of the Dodd–Frank Act requiring disclosures about "conflict minerals" emanating from select countries. Section 1502 of the Dodd–Frank Act is intended to make transparent the financial interests that support armed groups in the DRC area. By requiring companies using conflict minerals in their products to disclose the source of such minerals, the law is aimed at dissuading companies from continuing to engage in trade that supports regional conflicts.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Conflict minerals: What you need to know about the new disclosure and reporting requirements and how Ernst & Young can help

    Ernst & Young

    This Studie discusses Section 1502 of the Dodd–Frank Act requiring disclosures about "conflict minerals" emanating from select countries. Section 1502 of the Dodd–Frank Act is intended to make transparent the financial interests that support armed groups in the DRC area. By requiring companies using conflict minerals in their products to disclose the source of such minerals, the law is aimed at dissuading companies from continuing to engage in trade that supports regional conflicts.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Approximated EU GHG inventory: early estimates for 2011

    European Environment Agency (EEA)

    The objective of this report is to provide an early estimate of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the EU-15 and EU-27 for the year 2011. The official submission of 2011 data to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will occur in 2013.  more[...]  login_required

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  • International Peer Review to focus on Germany’s Sustainable Development Policy – Initial Decisions now taken

    German Council for Sustainable Development

    The Federal Government has officially requested the drawing up of a second international peer review of its sustainable development policy. In keeping with the 2012 progress report on the National Sustainable Development Strategy, the respective invitations have been issued to internationally recognized experts.  more[...]

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  • Developing countries exchange ISO 26000 experience at ISO workshop

    International Organization for Standardization

    A two-day workshop on the experience of developing countries in implementing and promoting the ISO 26000 guidance standard on social responsibility opened on 5 November 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland. Some 120 participants from about 70 countries are exchanging their experience on ISO 26000:2010, Guidance on social responsibility. The workshop is organized by the Development and Training Services of ISO.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Conflict Minerals and SEC Disclosure Regulation

    Prof. Celia Taylor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

    Mention the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank” or the “Act”),[1] and most people think of legislation aimed at “fundamental reform of the financial system”[2] focused on regulation of Wall Street practices and complex financial products. But tucked within the voluminous text of the Act (which consists of 2,300 pages and stipulates the passage of 387 rules by 20 different agencies[3]) is a provision having nothing to do with these issues or anything remotely related to them. Instead the “conflict minerals” provision of the Act requires companies that are subject to the reporting requirement of the federal securities laws to disclose whether they manufacture products using so-called “conflict minerals” sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) or contiguous countries.[4]  more[...]

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    Prof. Celia Taylor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law 
     
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  • Global Shell Games: Testing money Launderers and Terrorists Financiers Access to Shell Companies

    PEDL

    For criminals moving large sums of dirty money internationally, there is no better device than an untraceable shell company. This paper reports the results of an experiment soliciting offers for these prohibited anonymous shell Corporations. The research team impersonated a variety of low- and high-risk customers, including would-be Money launderers, corrupt officials, and terrorist financiers when requesting the anonymous companies. Evidence is drawn from more than 7,400 email solicitations to more than 3,700 Corporate Service Providers that make and sell shell companies in 182 countries.  more[...]  login_required

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  • CSR and responsible reporting: PRACTICES of EUROPEAN BANKS and INSURANCE COMPANIES

    Novethic

    Novethic conducted this study to assess the quality of CSR reporting of the largest European banks and insurance companies. By comparing the type of information provided by these key economic players on the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) aspects of their businesses, we can see how they are reacting to the scrutiny.  more[...]  login_required

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