• Foresight - Migration and Global Environmental Change

    The project Migration and Global Environmental Change examines how profound changes in environmental conditions such as flooding, drought and rising sea levels will influence and interact with patterns of global human migration over the next 50 years. Sir John Beddington, Professor Richard Black and Neil Adger explain what the final report concludes and what it means for the future of global migration.  more[...]

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  • Davos Annual Meeting 2009 - The Global Compact and the Corporate Citizen

    The Global Compact: Creating Sustainable Markets The UN Global Compact was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1999 and put forth the powerful idea that corporate engagement on global issues benefits both business and society over the long run.  more[...]

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  • Act NOW interview with Connie Hedegaard at Rio+20

    At the UN Rio+20 conference we were honoured to have the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedegaard as one of the main speakers at the Act NOW Executive Meeting. Her continuous push for increasing sustainable development shows how absolutely passionate she is about making a positive difference.  more[...]

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  • The Responsible Corporation in a Global Economy

    Prof. Colin Crouch, Business School of Warwick University

    No longer only the domain of corporate public relations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has now become a serious concern for many firms and a major sphere of academic research. However, most strikingly, by encouraging corporations to play a role in economic governance, particularly at the global level, CSR also raises issues for political science, public policy, and the world of politics as a whole.  more[...]  login_required

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    Prof. Colin  Crouch, Business School of Warwick University 
     
  • Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda

    Prof. Anne Chick, Lincoln University

    Sustainability is an increasingly vital subject for all kinds of designers. Whether you are involved in industrial design, graphic design or architecture, Design for Sustainable Change clearly explains the key theories and debates surrounding sustainability to allow you to adapt and integrate them into your own working practices.  more[...]  login_required

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    Prof. Anne  Chick, Lincoln University 
     
  • The Value of Improved Community Awareness

    Sibel Bekler, AKSA

    AKSA, a leading manufacturer of acrylic and carbon fibers in the world, has initiated a Community Advisory Panel comprised of about 45 representatives of municipal mayors, village elders, teachers, local authorities, and students selected from the villages in the vicinity of the facility. Since 2001, biannual or more frequent Community Advisory Panel meetings are held to assess and evaluate the coexistence of AKSA with the community, including issues of environmental, health, and safety performance of the facility as seen from the eyes of the public.  more[...]  login_required

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    Sibel Bekler, AKSA 
     
  • Sustaining Finance and Financing Sustainability in the Middle East

    Editorial Team

    Project one :In the light of its business excellence and recognition, Arab African International Bank decided to institutionalize the CSR building on its “Belief System “ and depending on a “Structural Approach”. This has produced the “We Owe it To Egypt” Foundation to be the national drive behind significant impact and sustainable development of health and education in Egypt. The Foundation’s main mission is: To pool patriotic resources and establish centers of excellence in health and education. Project two: The bank has adopted the Equator Principles as a regulatory framework for social and environmental impact assessment for projected finance that exceeds the 10 million dollars.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility – A Philosophy of Life

    María del Rosario García, Mutualista Pichincha
    Soledad Burbano, Mutualista Pichincha

    For Mutualista Pichincha, corporate social responsibility and the Ten Principles of the Global Compact go far beyond the realm of traditional institutional and professional behavior. They constitute a way of life and a new manner of doing things in all aspects of our entrepreneurship. They must become the engine that drives all our actions at work and at home; with our children, friends, and colleagues; on the streets as well as during public events and all of our daily activities.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Living Responsibility

    Rainer Wend, Deutsche Post DHL

    If one person forgets to switch off the light, it’s not the end of the world. But when thousands of employees agree to climate-protection measures, the effects can show a tremendously positive result. If only one customer requests a carbon-neutral transport, it’s not going to save the planet. However, when thousands of customers all over the world ask for eco-friendly services, it makes a big difference. Today, it is our employees and our customers who drive our corporate responsibility activities at Deutsche Post DHL.  more[...]  login_required

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    Rainer Wend, Deutsche Post DHL 
     
  • Eni’s Cooperation Model for Sustainable Development

    Sabina Ratti, eni

    Multinational companies face huge challenges in countries they operate in, from human rights to the growing need for transparency and responsibility, from respect for the environment to the fight against poverty and the promotion of fair labor practices. Oil and gas companies operate in some of the most challenging places on earth, where they can have an important impact on local communities and on the environment due to the nature of their operations. Furthermore, they manage energy resources that are deeply connected to the economy of a country, and they cope with a public sector that often looks for the support from the private sector to guarantee an improvement of development standards.  more[...]

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    Sabina Ratti, eni 
     
  • Bayer Launches New Sustainability Program

    Dr. Wolfgang Große-Entrup, Bayer Group
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    The world is facing a number of major challenges: One of the most important is the growth of the global population and the factors associated with this, such as access to healthcare, regular food supplies, and effective environmental and climate protection. These global problems are the main starting point for the new Bayer Sustainability Program.  more[...]

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